Meet Orli. She’s a founding leader of Paid Leave for the U.S. (PLUS), a nonprofit focused on winning paid family and medical leave. PLUS has helped win paid leave for more than 8M people, and Oril is bringing her knowledge, tools, case studies and adapting it all to the nonprofit sector.  She’s also sharing how to create a work environment that promotes work-life balance for employees as we build a movement where personal life comes first.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• Orli’s story and journey to where she is today (3:00)
• Overview of the paid leave landscape in the United States (7:00)
• Where to start with this topic and get the right conversations started (13:00)
• Getting involved with legislation (21:00)
• Examples of best in class paid leave policies (27:00)
  • Cost Benefit Analysis Resources from PL + US
  • Toolkit and Template Proposal from PL + US 
• You're never going to be the kind of visionary organization to the world if you can't be that kind of visionary organization to your own team: moving away from scarcity mindset in the sector (37:00)
• A powerful moment of philanthropy in Orli’s life (39:00)
• Orli’s One Good Thing: Low ego high impact. (42:00)

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