September 24, 2019

09/24/2019
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  • Barriers to Employment
  • MIGlobal
  • Overheard
President & CEO of the LA Area Chamber of Commerce Maria S Salinas discusses matching workers' talents to jobs at the Milken Global Conference 2019.
09/24/2019
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  • MIGlobal
  • Overheard
Jonathan Keidan, the founder of Torch Capital, talks with us about how technology is taking businesses to the next level at Milken Global Conference.
09/24/2019
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  • Barriers to Employment
  • MIGlobal
  • Overheard
Steven Rattner, Chairman & CEO of Willett Advisors and MSNBC "Morning Joe" Economic Analyst, talks with us about the state of jobs and the economy.
09/24/2019
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  • In-Demand Industries
  • MIGlobal
  • Overheard
Josh Giegel, co-founder & CTO of Virgin Hyperloop One, tells us the best thing his parents taught him was that engineers are problem-solvers.
09/24/2019
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  • Career Pathways
  • MIGlobal
  • Overheard
In 2016, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed the bill establishing the Mississippi Works Fund to provide funding for existing businesses to train current personnel.
09/24/2019
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  • Barriers to Employment
  • MIGlobal
  • Overheard
  • People Like Me
Scott Budnick, founder of One Community and the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, is a veteran film producer (The Hangover films, War Dogs) and criminal justice reform activist.
09/24/2019
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  • In-Demand Industries
  • MIGlobal
  • Overheard
Matt Driskill, the founder of Military Leadership Circle, discusses cyber threats against businesses at the Milken Global Conference 2019.
09/24/2019
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  • Barriers to Employment
  • Overheard
  • People Like Me
  • Veterans
  • Warrior Symposium
Jim Lorraine, president and CEO of America's Warrior Partnership, talks about joining the Air Force as a nurse officer and how that affected his career path.

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.