Chuck Wilsker President
and CEO Chuck Wilsker is the President and CEO of the Telework Coalition (TelCoa), a not for profit association headquartered in Washington, DC. TelCoa works to support and enable the advancement of Virtual, Mobile, and Distributed Work through Research, Education, Technology, and Legislation. His interests include both promoting the benefits of Telework as a means of providing employment opportunities for older and rural workers, and disabled workers, including service disabled veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and its use as a critical part of disaster avoidance and business continuity programs. Promoting the bottom line business benefits of telework is also a primary initiative. He is a member of the Internet Society, the Association of Contingency Planners, the National Council on Readiness and Preparedness and deputy chair of the Telecommuting Task Force at the Northern Virginia Technology Council. He was on the Transportation and Environment Committee of the Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade where he chaired the Telework Task Force, was the Executive Director of ITAC, the International Telework Association & Council, and is a member and Past President of MATAC, the Mid Atlantic Telecommuting Advisory Council, is on the committee that developed and promoted the Washington Area Conference on Telework, sat on both the Metropolitan Washington, DC and National Telecommuting and Air Quality Act (TAQA) Steering Committees of the e-Commute program run by the EPA and DOT and was its Lead Consultant in the DC region, and is a Project Team member of a group funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health developing a program of Health, Safety, and Ergonomic training for Teleworkers. Chuck has addressed diverse groups ranging from the National Institute of Science and Technology and the Council of Scientific Society Presidents to the Association of Contingency Planners and the Peace Corps. He has been the featured guest on many radio interview shows, appeared on NBC Channel 4 in Washington, DC, was on Fox News' Fox Magazine, on ABC’s World News Tonight discussing telecommuting and the New York Transit strike of 2005, NBC’s Nightly News talking about how telecommuting can help reduce gasoline consumption and related costs, and on most NBC affiliate stations covering the general benefits of telecommuting to employers, employees, and society in general. He has written many articles on Teleworking, and is often quoted in both local and National press, including the Washington Post, USAToday, the Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Federal Computer Week, GovExec.com, Government Computer News, NetworkWorld magazine, and ABCNews.com. Recently,
Chuck was invited to participate in meetings at the United Nations in
New York City to help promote “Accessible and Assistive Information
and Communications Technologies for Persons with Disabilities”.
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