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Kate is the principal researcher at the Telework Research Network. She has reviewed more than 250 studies on telecommuting and related topics and interviewed dozens of virtual employers, employees, advocates, and venture capitalists who have invested in remote work models.

Kate’s popular press book (co-authored with Tom Harnish), Undress For Success: The Naked Truth About Making Money at Home (Wiley, 2009), has won the praise of top work-life experts. Her recent white paper, Telecommuting: The Bottom Line on Benefits (Citrix Online, 2010) and other research has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Inc. magazine and dozens of other publications.

You can follow Kate on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Slideshare, YouTube.

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Kate Lister is the principal researcher at the Telework Research Network. Her popular-press book (co-authored with Tom Harnish), Undress For Success: The Naked Truth About Making Money at Home (John Wiley & Sons 2009), has won the praise of top telework and work-life advocates including principals with WorldatWork, the Canadian Telework Association, the Telework Coalition, Jack Nilles, the father of telework.

As a writer, Kate has co-authored two other business books: Finding Money-The Small Business Guide to Financing (Wiley, 1995; revised as eBook in 2010), and The Directory of Venture Capital (Wiley, 1996).

As a speaker, Kate has delivered over a hundred lectures, webinars, and speeches for organizations including WorldatWork, Citrix Online, Wharton School of Business, and Temple University; and she developed small business training programs for Corestates Bank, Keystone Bank, Liberty Bank, Unisys, and Eastman Kodak.

As an entrepreneur, Kate has owned an operated several businesses including the nation’s oldest and largest vintage airplane flightseeing business.

Kate maintains several websites including: TeleworkResearchNetwork.com / Undress4Success.com, and FindingMoneyAdvice.com. She has authored numerous articles for publications including the Wall Street Journal, The Journal of Commercial Banking, and many others. She’s currently an Entrepreneur Magazine columnist, a regular contributor to American Express Open Forum, and a blogger for Workshifting.com (CitrixOnline).

You can follow Kate on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Slideshare, YouTube.

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Over the past thirty years Kate has started, operated, and sold several successful businesses including a consulting business that helped hundreds of entrepreneurs raise millions of dollars from banks, government agencies, angels, and venture capitalists. She also built a vintage airplane ride business into the oldest and the largest in the country.

Kate and co-author Tom Harnish have written three business books: Finding Money-The Small Business Guide To Financing (2010 eBook; formerly published by Wiley), Undress For Success-The Naked Truth About Making Money at Home (John Wiley & Sons, 2009), and The Directory of Venture Capital (Wiley 1995, 1997).

She maintains two business blogs, Undress4Success.com and FindingMoneyAdvice.com, and has written for the Wall Street Journal, American Express Open Forum, Wisebread.com, Workshifting.com, BroadbandCensus.com, and many others. She’s produced whitepapers, webinars, and podcasts for Citrix Online, Verizon, and others organizations on topics including telecommuting, public relations, and results-oriented management.

Kate’s research on telecommuting, home business trends, and entrepreneurship has been quoted in the Harvard Business Review, USA Today, Washington Post and dozens of other publications. She has appeared on television and radio shows worldwide including Wall Street Journal Radio, CNN—About Your Money, and Fox & Friends.

As a speaker, Kate has lectured about business finance, planning, pricing strategies, public relations, and telecommuting at over a hundred events for organizations including the Wharton School of Business, Temple University, PNC Bank, WorldatWork, Eastman Kodak and others.

For her small business advocacy, she was recognized as an Inc. magazine / Arthur Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Program finalist. The U.S. Small Business Administration named her Regional Business Advocate of the Year. Those awards were, in part, in recognition of a microloan program she developed to help disadvantaged businesses. Five major Philadelphia banks provided seed grants for the loan fund.

Prior to venturing out on her own, Kate spent 10 years as a commercial bank lender and private equity investor.

You can follow Kate on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Slideshare, YouTube.