Pathways to Quality Jobs

These are the key workforce issues facing the U.S. economy this year. How do we solve them and promote economic mobility for all? Our WorkingNation Advisory Board weighs in.
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The Future of Work is Changing. Are You Ready?

Trump layoffs hit federal workers with less than a year on the job
WALL STREET JOURNAL
February 14, 2025
Federal funding freeze disrupts rural organizations supporting foster youth, job growth
ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 14, 2025
Trump’s funding freeze bruises a core constituency: farmers
NEW YORK TIMES
February 14, 2025
Md. labor secretary says state ready to help federal workers facing layoffs
WTOP
February 14, 2025
Musk’s DOGE launches a website tracking size of federal workforce
WASHINGTON POST
February 14, 2025
Report: Nearly one in four older workers are planning to change jobs this year
January 16, 2025
Opinion: U.S. workers are falling behind. Can they catch up?
January 6, 2025
Opinion: Should employers care about family caregivers?
November 29, 2024
Report: Which of the nation’s top employers are advancing the careers of their workers?
October 28, 2024
Report: The City of Los Angeles steps up efforts to be more inclusive of the older worker
October 9, 2024

Overheard

WorkingNation Overheard is an interview series that provides insider access to what CEOs, top educators, heads of nonprofits, and state and local leaders at major conferences around the country are saying about the future of education, the future of work, and the future of workers at large. 

Overheard

WorkingNation Overheard is an interview series that provides insider access to what CEOs, top educators, heads of nonprofits, and state and local leaders at major conferences around the country are saying about the future of education, the future of work, and the future of workers at large. 

Dana Beth Ardi

Executive Committee

Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.

Ardi is an experienced business executive and senior consultant who leverages business organizational transformation through talent strategies. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop talent strategies to enhance revenue and profit contributions. She has a deep expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness and has designed and built high performance cultures. Ardi has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO’s and turnarounds.

Ardi is an expert on the multi-generational workforce. She understands the four intersecting generations of workers coming together in contemporary companies, each with their own mindsets, leadership and communications styles, values and motivations. Ardi is sought after to assist companies manage and thrive by bringing the generations together. Her book, Fall of the Alphas: How Beta Leaders Win Through Connection, Collaboration and Influence, will be published by St. Martin’s Press. The book reflects Ardi’s deep expertise in understanding organizations and our changing society. It focuses on building a winning culture, how companies must grow and evolve, and how talent influences and shapes communities of work. This is what she has coined “Corporate Anthropology.” It is a playbook on how modern companies must meet challenges – culturally, globally, digitally, across genders and generations.

Ardi is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors, LLC, a consulting company that provides human capital advisory and innovative solutions to companies building value through people. Corporate Anthropology works with organizations, their cultures, the way they grow and develop, and the people who are responsible for forming their communities of work.

Prior to her position at Corporate Anthropology Advisors, Ardi served as a Partner/Managing Director at the private equity firms CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners. She was a partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm working with early state companies where she pioneered the human capital role within an investment portfolio.

Ardi holds a BS from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Masters degree and PhD from Boston College. She started her career as professor at the Graduate Center at Fordham University in New York.