Changing the World - Booz Allen Hamilton

Lindsay Hemphill’s primary Booz Allen client
is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), a fact that dovetails perfectly with
her passion for public health and the factors that
influence it. “Like many families, mine contends
with illness and chronic disease,” says Hemphill, a
senior consultant in Atlanta. “I wanted to understand
the causes. Was it environmental? Was it genetic?
I stumbled upon public health to help answer
some of my questions, and I hope that one day I
can answer these questions for someone else.”
One of her CDC projects is the Healthy Communities
Program, which brings together community
leaders from across the country for three-day
seminars called Action Institutes. “The participants
receive tools and resources they can use back
home to mobilize their communities to live healthier
lives,” Hemphill says.
Hemphill also serves her own community as a
volunteer. As a leader of the Atlanta office’s community
relations activities, Hemphill helps organize
her co-workers to participate in such activities as
walking to raise money for breast cancer and AIDS
and building homes for Habitat for Humanity.
With such a busy schedule, Hemphill really appreciates
the firm’s work–life balance policy, which offers
telecommuting, flexible work hours, paid time off,
and leave of absence options to create the right
balance for employees’ personal needs.
Booz Allen’s Atlanta office was recognized with an
Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in
Workplace Flexibility. Says Hemphill, who telecommutes
once a week to spend more time with her
family, “To me, the award is a testament to Booz
Allen’s commitment, not only to its clients, but also
to its employees.”
Lindsay Abraham Hemphill /
A Healthy
Passion
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