Partner Series

We are collaborating with organizations across the country to create content and tell stories about efforts to ensure all Americans have equal access to quality jobs.

WorkingNation has partnered with Scripps News, the national news network, to bring both our audiences nonpartisan reporting on issues impacting workers and employment around the country. Scripps News shares WorkingNation’s commitment to independent, people-first storytelling. With reporters in more than 50 cities across the country, their journalists live and work in the communities they cover. Together, we are combining forces to elevate solutions that are addressing today’s workforce challenges, including barriers to hiring and promotion, as well as looking at pathways to economic mobility and the impact of technology on how we do our jobs.

Our partner Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is dedicated to unlocking opportunity for all so that people can achieve financial stability, upward mobility, and economic prosperity – regardless of race, gender, or geography. Entrepreneurship is one key to that door to opportunity. Together, Kauffman and WorkingNation are telling stories about how entrepreneurship can be a fulfilling and profitable career choice and a boon to a community

When it comes to partners who share WorkingNation’s vision, you don’t have to look much farther than the Cognizant Foundation. The philanthropic organization is passionate about inspiring, educating and preparing people of all ages to succeed in the workforce of today and tomorrow with a strong focus on opportunities in tech for all.

Recognizing that the jobs of the future are rooted in a thriving innovation economy, Tulsa Innovation Labs – a diverse coalition of public and private partners led by George Kaiser Family Foundation – is developing a city-wide strategy that positions Tulsa as a tech hub and leader in the future of work.

CWI Labs advances bold, creative solutions that tackle the labor force obstacles confronting underserved, low-income communities. Like WorkingNation, the nonprofit partners with like-minded organizations to build a community of experts dedicated to tackling barriers to workforce equity.

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with more than 810 million members worldwide. The platform’s mission is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce

The nonprofit Opportunity@Work is on a mission to rewire the U.S. labor market so that all individuals Skilled Through Alternative Routes (STARs) can work, learn, and earn to their full potential.

Workforce Matters, a network of philanthropic organizations focused on funding workforce development programs.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is one of the 12 banks that make up the Federal Reserve System. The Atlanta Fed’s Community and Economic Development department supports the Central Bank’s mandate of stable prices and maximum employment by working to improve the economic mobility and resilience of people and places for a healthy economy. The Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers identifies best practices with a goal of transforming the workforce.

The mission of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation is to strengthen the nation’s long-term competitiveness, with a focus on educating the public about issues that will help businesses and communities thrive. They mobilize the business community to be more engaged partners, challenge the status quo, and move education and workforce initiatives forward to fuel economic success.

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.