Work Life Legacy Award Overview

Over the last three decades, there has been a transformation in the American workplace—a transformation that has changed the way work gets done and has helped employees manage their work, and their personal and family responsibilities.

These changes didn’t just happen. They have been created by leaders in many different sectors of society who have the courage and the competence to forge new ways of making work “work.”

Because the history of this vital movement has yet to be written, the Work Life Legacy Award was created to document the extraordinary accomplishments of the leaders of the work life movement, and in the process, retell the story of how these economic and social changes took place—all in the words of those amazing individuals who made it happen.

A Complex Award for a Complex Movement

The world of work life is complex.

Making it increasingly possible for people to weave aspects of their personal, family, community and working lives together to the advantage of both employers and employees has taken the combined effort of business leaders, researchers, economists, educators, legislators and many others.

When Tina Green began designing the Work Life Legacy Award for Families and Work Institute five years ago, she wanted to be sure that the award reflected the diverse fields, factions, passions and people who have impacted the way we work and live today. And with hard work, careful crafting and a steady hand, that's exactly what she did.

Although Tina and her husband, Peter, had been customizing and creating one-of-a-kind glass art for more than 30 years at Renaissance Studios in their home in Westport, Connecticut, their specialty was not making awards. But when Tina Green was approached to create the Work Life Legacy Award, she was honored to be a part of the project.

Each year, using the Work Life Legacy Award logo designed by John Boose from the Institute and distinctive glass elements, Ms. Green has created a unique award. The differing textures and transparencies of the glass blend together to suggest the woven nature of our home and working lives and the many fields that have come together to sustain the work life movement.

Like the honorees, each hand-crafted award is different, further capturing the essence of the work life movement where there are never one-size-fits-all answers.

The awards that Tina Green creates are both traditional and modern; conventional and contemporary. They are works of art, but more importantly, they are symbols of a movement and the unique contribution each of the honorees has made to that movement.