September 27, 2019

09/27/2019
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  • ASU GSV Summit
  • Career Pathways
  • Overheard
  • People Like Me
Gary Brahm, Chancellor of Brandman University, on mentoring and coaching adults who return to school.
09/27/2019
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  • ASU GSV Summit
  • Barriers to Employment
  • Overheard
  • People Like Me
Paul Irving, Chairman of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, discusses the supply and demand challenge and opportunity in the U.S. workforce.
09/27/2019
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  • ASU GSV Summit
  • Barriers to Employment
  • Overheard
  • People Like Me
Nicki Ruiz de Luzuriaga, Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Economic Mobility Pathways, on the pathway out of poverty.
09/27/2019
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  • ASU GSV Summit
  • In-Demand Industries
  • Overheard
Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, explains how AI is behind every single sector of life
09/27/2019
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  • Originals
Boston Dynamics announced a public release this week for its signature robo-dog, Spot, with new video that showcases the robot dog at work.
09/27/2019
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  • ASU GSV Summit
  • Barriers to Employment
  • Overheard
Daniel Pianko, Managing Partner at University Ventures on the millions of jobs available today.
09/27/2019
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  • ASU GSV Summit
  • Career Pathways
  • Overheard
Michael Levine, Chief Knowledge Officer of Sesame Workshop, explains that early years education sets the tone for life long learning.
09/27/2019
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  • Media
It’s been a busy week for the WorkingNation team with interviews for WGN Radio and CNBC and moderating a panel discussion at 2019 Concordia Summit.
09/27/2019
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  • ASU GSV Summit
  • Overheard
  • People Like Me
Heather Hiles, CEO and President of the California Online Community College District on investing in free or nominal education and training for adult learners.

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.