Kate Lister

Kate Lister is president of Global Workplace Analytics (GWA), a research-based consulting firm that has been helping organizations optimize the employer, employee, and environmental outcomes of remote work and other workplace strategies for more than a decade. GWA partners with some of the industry’s most respected influencers to advance thought leadership on the qualitative and quantitative impacts of workplace change. Kate was one of only three witnesses invited to testify before a U.S. Senate committee on the expansion of telework in government post-COVID-19. Her research has been cited by hundreds of publications including the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and many others. GWA’s work is informed by a proprietary digital library of over 5,000 research reports, case studies, and other content related to the technologies, trends, and scientific understandings that are transforming workforce and workplace strategies around the globe. Kate is a sought-after speaker and writer. She has authored three business books, contributed chapters to two others, and written scores of articles related to the corporate workplace for major media outlets.