Ellen Ernst Kossek

While at CASBS, Ellen Ernst Kossek will work on several writing projects including a book tentatively titled Democratizing Flexibility (with Brenda Lautsch) that seeks to foster new insights on how to reboot work-life flexibility policies to improve the quality of working life in the 21st century.  Drawing on completed organizational field research supported by NIH, NSF, Russell Sage, Sloan, and Fulbright, she will also write research papers on the changing nature of faculty careers in STEM and the humanities in the corporatized university, and the design of work-life interventions to foster leader support and control over the work boundary.

Kossek was the first elected president of the Work-Family Researchers Network, and has been recognized for conducting seminal research to help create and advance the work-life field. She has received many research awards, and recognition for advancing understanding of the role of employing organizations in influencing work-family, work-life, and gender equality in societies.

Kossek is Family Distinguished Scholar at the Purdue Center for Families and the Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor Emerita of Management at Daniels School of Business at Purdue University. She is the VMware Women’s Leadership Lab Fellow at CASBS for 2025-26.

You can learn more about her research here:

https://business.purdue.edu/directory/bio.php?username=ekossek