Yael Gilboa Kaufmann, COO and co-founder of Learn In, a company that encourages and helps companies upskill existing employees rather than seek new hires from the outside.
WorkingNation interviewed Learn In’s Gilboa Kaufmann for #WorkingNationOverheard as a media partner with ASU+GSV’s Virtual Summit 2020,held September 29 through October 1+October 8. You can watch all of the interviews on our YouTube channel.
She said that down the road, upskilling or reskilling won’t just be a one-time intervention, but rather, a unilateral reality, and one that is especially important given “the skills gap is not going away.”
And while some companies are currently making policy to address diversity and inclusion, doing so more aggressively is the key to an inclusive recovery, but also to breaking existing shortcomings at the top of organizations.
“A lot of the results that we don’t see at the top of the organization is a function of the fact that a lot of companies don’t necessarily know to invest in those underrepresented groups while they are employees, to invest in them with management training, with leadership training, with all the upskilling that the company needs to achieve both their business outcomes, but also their D and I objectives.”
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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.
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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.
