Elise Jones is a work/life consultant and founder and president of E Jones Consulting. She focuses on helping employers and employees establish win-win environments by enabling work-life integration, advancing flexibility, and leveraging diversity.
Most recently Elise led the diversity effort for Microsoft’s Mobile Communications Business and served as a workplace flexibility advisor to several Microsoft executives. During her seven years at the company Elise founded a flexwork-focused employee affinity group and was instrumentalin establishing flexwork initiatives in several business units companywide. Elise is the 2005 recipient of Microsoft's Business Empowered by Diversity Award.
Praise for Elise Jones
Pieter Knook, Former Senior Vice President
Mobile Communications Business
Microsoft Corporation
We had high hopes when we created a position in the Mobile Communications Business dedicated to furthering diversity and inclusion. Elise Jones produced the traction we were seeking, uniting the efforts of leaders, managers, HR professionals, and employees to increase diversity awareness, action, and accountability across the division. Under Elise’s direction, our workplace flexibility efforts significantly impacted employee retention and satisfaction. Thanks to Elise’s active stance across Microsoft, our progress in MCB influenced many other divisions to take similar steps. I wholeheartedly recommend Elise as a strong and effective ally on the diversity and flexibility fronts.