OFFICIAL BIO: Sara Sutton is passionate about helping people find jobs that make their lives better. For the past 12& years, she has been the CEO and Founder of FlexJobs, the leading service for professional flexible job opportunities, and she started her career in 1995 when she co-Founded the first online entry-level job service JobDirect (sold to Korn|Ferry International in 2000). Sutton has been featured as an expert on the employment market and future of work in a wide variety of media outlets, including Time, Fast Company, CNN, NBC, Forbes, Inc., and hundreds of others, as well as has been a speaker on a wide variety of employment and future of work topics at various World Economic Forum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s events, SXSW, Dell Technologies World, and many smaller scale conferences and summits. Sara deeply believes that a modern workplace should address the needs of today’s workforce, and that utilizing workplace technology to support telecommuting, freelance, part-time, and flexible work will achieve societal, environmental, and economic benefits for both employees and employers. As a result, she is committed to providing education and awareness about the viability and benefits of remote working and work flexibility. In addition to FlexJobs, Sara has launched an advocacy initiative, 1 Million for Work Flexibility in 2013; a resource for integrating remote work into business models, Remote.co in 2015; and most recently in 2016 The TRaD* Works Forum (*Telecommuting, Remote, & Distributed), a conference that brings together organizations looking to further leverage the benefits of telecommuting, remote and distributed teams. For her work in the employment and technology fields, she was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and is honored to serve on the Advisory Group for the YGL program. She also is an active angel investor with a focus on companies using technology for societal good in an impactful way. Sara holds a BA in Society, Technology, and the Environment from the University of California at Berkeley, and resides in Boulder, Colorado, USA with her two children.<\/p>\n