Stories That Empower America's Workforce

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Focus on Spokane, Washington: With a past based in natural resources, leadership is hopeful about its ‘very diversified economy’

Mayor Lisa Brown: ‘We have these emerging sectors in clean energy, in aerospace, and in tech’
May 14, 2025 | Laura Aka
Maria Burns Ortiz is pictured at a gathering of her national 10,000 Small Businesses cohort in NYC at Goldman Sachs.

10,000 Small Businesses helps entrepreneurs scale up their dreams

'10KSB' celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, providing education, capital, and networks of 'growth-oriented entrepreneurs'
May 9, 2025 | Victoria Lim

Chicago employers are investing in long-overlooked communities, bringing opportunity

A look at how businesses and communities both benefit in Chicago neighborhoods with high rates of poverty
May 5, 2025 | Ramona Schindelheim
VEX 2024 (Photo: VEX Robotics World Championship)

VEX Robotics World Championship competitors gather with dreams of victory, STEM careers

Past competitors have gone on to careers in tech, CEO says, including with many of the event’s sponsors
April 30, 2025 | Michael S. James
President Schejbal at Commencement 2023 (Excelsior University)

Online education booms in an era of lifelong learning

While higher education enrollment overall has been flat or declining, online enrollment nearly doubled from 2017 to 2022
April 28, 2025 | Michael S. James

Workers skilled through alternative routes are seeing access to greater economic mobility

Opportunity@Work report: Skills-first hiring is opening doors to better jobs and careers for people without college degrees
April 24, 2025 | Ramona Schindelheim
HOPE Global Forum 2024 The Future of Work Lab curated by WorkingNation

HOPE Global Forum: The Future of Work

WATCH: What does the future of work look like, especially as more employers are using AI in the workplace?
April 18, 2025 | Ramona Schindelheim
Photo credit: California College Corps

Deep Dive: How public service can jumpstart careers even as it helps communities

Public service helps states and organizations meet public need, while helping service members develop experience and career skills
April 10, 2025 | Ramona Schindelheim
Opinion: Millions of college graduates are underemployed. How can colleges break the cycle?
May 16, 2025
Report: Are we making learner support systems too complicated?
May 1, 2025
Report: Gen Z pessimistic about work and life success, survey suggests
April 25, 2025
White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working
WASHINGTON POST
May 21, 2025
PBS Kids furloughs 25% of staff after Trump administration cuts grant
USA TODAY
May 21, 2025
America has plenty of open manufacturing jobs — companies say they can’t fill them
WSIU
May 21, 2025

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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.