Josh Christianson

Senior Specialist, The Cadmus Group

Josh Christianson, Advisory Board, is a passionate advocate for workplace diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). He has a 20+ year track record leading successful public programs by building partnerships, momentum, and teams to support big goals.

Christianson is the inclusion and accessibility practice lead at The Cadmus Group where he directs contracts to support key federal DEIA goals.

In this capacity, he serves as the project director for the Partnership on Inclusive Apprenticeship (PIA), after several successful years directing the Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology (PEAT). In both roles he works to increase the employment of underserved communities, including people with disabilities.

He does this by bringing together stakeholders including CEOs, advocates, tech developers, government leaders, and academia (among others) to build the workplace of the future. This work is funded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP).

Prior to Wheelhouse Group, Christianson worked at Deloitte Consulting, leading change management, technology, and human capital initiatives. He was a lead author of the report “Opening the Federal Talent Economy.”

Christianson also served as a career program manager for The Posse Foundation, a college access program focused on diversity and inclusion. The Posse Foundation continues to hire him to help design and facilitate their national discussions regarding issues of equity in the United States.

Christianson graduated cum laude with a BA in sociology from University of Colorado, Boulder. He graduated magna cum laude with a MS in conflict analysis and resolution from George Mason University. His MS comes in handy living in harmony with his wife, 3 kids, 1 dog, and 1 visiting cat in Washington, D.C.

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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.