Chuck Wilsker

Chuck Wilsker is the President and CEO of the Telework Coalition (TelCoa), a not for

profit association headquartered in Washington, DC. TelCoa works to 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 disabled workers, including service

disabled veterans, older workers, and rural workers, 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 the President of the Capitol Telecommunications Professionals, 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 a member

of the Maryland State Work~Life Alliance, 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.

For five years, Chuck has chaired planning committees for the telework tracks at Call Center

Conferences that addressed how converting customer service agents from bricks & mortar

operations to a virtual model of a call center can have such a positive effect on the bottom line,

that domestic call centers can be financially competitive with those offshore, while maintaining

the positive customer and client relations that can only be realized by interacting with onshore

CSRs. Recent call center projects also address the benefits of Work@Home™ agents as a

part of business continuity planning.

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 the TV shows Money Moves airing on both ABC and PBS, 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 co-hosted two call-in Radio shows, the Computer Tutor, and Business

& Technology Insider. 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, 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”.

Chuck serves on the Board of Directors of Just Making Children Informed, a non-profit corporation

helping inner city children in Baltimore, MD live up to their potentials.