Annie Garneva on the inertia around hiring processes

A new campaign encourages employers to hire those Skilled Through Alternative Routes
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A new campaign from Opportunity@Work and the Ad Council encourages companies to tear the paper ceiling. The message encourages companies to employ people who don’t have college degrees but have been skilled through alternative routes. STARs are a valuable talent pool that should be strong candidates for hire.

Annie Garneva, interim CEO of NYC Employment and Training Coalition, says about 80% of the people served by NYCETC are STARS. “The coalition is the biggest local-based association of direct service providers doing workforce development in the country. We have over 200 members helping New Yorkers get jobs and get trained in a wide variety of sectors across the five boroughs in New York City. Collectively, we serve about 500,000 New Yorkers.”

Garneva loves the message of Tear the Paper Ceiling, but says employers need help understanding the dropping of the college degree requirement. “At the top level, there might be some leaders saying, ‘Yes, this is what we need to do to change our talent acquisition strategy.’ The implementation plans and figuring out how to do it. And then also helping the hiring directors make those decisions – don’t exist. It needs to be a system-wide approach that employers don’t yet really know how to do so they fall back on their habits.”

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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.