Dr. Jill Buban

Chief Growth Officer, EdPlus at Arizona State University

Dr. Jill Buban, Advisory Board, has more than 20 years of in-depth experience spanning in the postsecondary education and ed tech sectors. She is one of the nation’s leading working learner experts and is passionate about increasing access to educational opportunities that make a concrete difference for learners.

She is currently the chief growth officer for EdPlus at Arizona State University.  Immediately prior to this roll, she served as vice president and general manager of EdAssist by Bright Horizons.

In that position, Dr. Buban helped companies reimagine the role of education in the workplace and understand how it can be a tool not only to entice new talent and encourage retention, but also to inspire adult learners to build meaningful skills, explore new professional pathways, and nurture a career that is aligned with the needs of tomorrow’s workforce.

From health care to tech, banking to retail, Dr. Buban has forged relationships with and gathered insights from senior leaders in every industry – insights that can inform how we shape the national debate around the future of work post-COVID and help employees find purpose and happiness in work.  

Previously, Dr. Buban served in senior roles at multiple postsecondary institutions, spearheading efforts to expand quality educational opportunities and access to nontraditional students. She also led two national organizations (Unizin Consortium and the Online Learning Consortium) where she honed expertise on innovation and impact in learning.

She has built a sterling reputation as an expert in higher education and adult learning, and is a recognized influencer in workforce development and education technology.

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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.