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Back to Work: To mark National Apprenticeship Week, we found these learn-and-earn opportunities

From November 15–21, stakeholders around the country highlight the opportunities available through this industry-led training model
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Today marks the start of National Apprenticeship Week (NAW)—a nationwide showcase that allows stakeholders in business, workforce, education, and government to highlight the opportunities that apprenticeships provide.

“Registered apprenticeships provide a path to the middle class for workers, and this year’s National Apprenticeship Week event is an opportunity to bring together partners with a vested interest in expanding apprenticeship programs and creating a pipeline to success attainable for everyone,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh said in announcing this year’s NAW.

We looked at some of those pathways being offered around the country. Here’s what we found in these five states.

Check it out.

From Alabama: Yellow Hammer reports the Alabama Office of Apprenticeship has launched a searchable dashboard that allows users to learn about registered apprenticeship opportunities in the state.

From Illinois: WGLT reports Heartland Community College is crafting a program that will include apprenticeships with an area candy company that is expanding its operations.

From Maryland: Baltimore Fishbowl reports the state is investing more than $3 million in a program that encourages businesses to register new apprentices.

From Mississippi: WDAM reports Pearl River Community College in Poplarville has received a grant to engage local employers and develop an apprenticeship program.

From Washington: Go Anacortes reports Dakota Creek Industries has received approval for apprenticeship programs in four trades—machinery assembler, marine electrician, production welder, and shipfitter/fabricator.

Did you miss our previous Back to Work stories from around the country? Catch up here.

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.