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On the ground at the big education, tech, and work conference

WorkingNation joins the 3,000 attendees at the big ASU+GSV Summit. We'll let you know what we're hearing!
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The ASU+GSV Summit brings together the best and brightest minds at the intersection of education, technology, and work, with a focus on the new efforts underway to ensure everyone has equal access to participate in the future.

This year’s three-day conference kicks off Monday in San Diego, and, once again, WorkingNation is proud to be a collaborating partner with the conference. We’re hosting a number of panels and sharing with you some of the conversations we’re having on-the-scene through our original social media interview series, WorkingNation Overheard.

Keep an eye on our Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram channels and watch for the #WorkingNationOverheard and #ASUGSVSummit hashtags to find out what speakers and attendees are telling us about new solutions to today’s workforce challenges.

WE’RE Speaking Live at the ASU+GSV!  

We’re hosting a couple of important discussions and helping out on a third one.

The green economy is growing and has been identified as one of the five economies expected to lead the post-pandemic jobs recovery. So what does this mean for the millions of job seekers trying to find their way back into the workforce? WorkingNation is hosting a panel that examines the skills needed to get a good-paying green job and where to find those jobs.

We’ve brought together an amazing line-up of panelists, including our own president Jane Oates, to share this important information.

We’re also screening our short documentary The Middle: Indianapolis, the centerpiece of our most recent digital magazine, followed by a discussion about the important role education plays in preparing people with the skills they need to achieve a middle-class lifestyle throughout the country.

WorkingNation’s executive producer Melissa Panzer takes part in that discussion and is joined onstage by a distinguished group of thought leaders who’ve agreed to share their thoughts on how education is key to economic mobility and job security.

WorkingNation’s editor-in-chief Ramona Schindelheim moderates a panel for our friends at New Profit about the next steps in their Future of Work Grand Challenge. The equity-focused effort aims to rapidly reskill 25,000 displaced workers into higher-wage jobs over the next two years. We’ll dig in on how to activate a local community and its leaders to create a good jobs pipeline.

Be In The Room Where It Happens, Or Close to It

We hope to see you there, but if you’re not in San Diego, we want you to feel like you’re in the room where it happens.

See what we’re up to on Twitter, LinkedIn,  YouTube, and Instagram at @WorkingNation and follow the hashtags #WorkingNationOverheard and #ASUGSVSummit.

And check back here at WorkingNation.com later this week for a recap of the all the action taking place at the ASU+GSV Summit.

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.