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See you in Austin!

WorkingNation's lineup at SXSW EDU includes top leaders in education, nonprofits, business, and government
By Ramona Schindelheim
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SXSW EDU will be back live in Austin in March and WorkingNation will be there in full force!

We’re excited to announce that once again WorkingNation will be there to share our insights into the issues impacting today’s workforce development and career pathways, and we’ll be talking to the inspiring leaders who are fostering innovation and learning in our education industry.

Here’s What We’re Talking About

WorkingNation will be hosting four panels. Here’s a look at the issues we’re talking about and the great line-up of moderators and panelists that we’ve pulled together.

Learn-and-Earn: A Proven Workforce Model

Employer-driven programs work. Apprenticeships work. Employers work with community colleges to set a curriculum that will teach skills needed in local businesses through a combination of classroom and on-the-job learning. And, the students are paid for the work they do while gaining valuable skills. Using this model, communities across the country can develop a much-needed, skilled workforce, leading to jobs that employers need to fill.

The panel will be moderated by WorkingNation president Jane Oates. She’ll be joined by Jamie Merisotis, president & CEO of Lumina Foundation. We’ll share the names of the additional panelists very soon.

Building Innovation Hubs Outside of Silicon Valley

The great 2020 migration from larger metro areas to more-affordable and less-populated cities and towns has created an opportunity for many of these mid-size and smaller communities to become tech innovation and entrepreneurial hubs of the future. Local businesses, civic leaders, foundations, and educators are teaming up to foster new tech-centric economies that will unleash new employment opportunities for all and encourage small business creation.

This panel will be moderated by award-winning journalist Hari Sreenivasan, senior correspondent and weekend anchor for PBS Newshour. Our panel includes Miami mayor Francis Suarez; Nicholas Lalla, co-founder and managing director for Tulsa Innovation Labs; and Patrick McKenna, founder of One America Works.

Closing the Latino Digital Skills Gap

Latino workers are 14% of overall workers, but represent 35% of workers with no digital skills and 20% of those with limited digital skills. Digital skills are crucial to obtaining gainful employment and resources to support their families.

We talk to leaders from various organizations providing training and education to close this skills gap and help the community thrive, including Frankie Miranda, president & CEO of Hispanic Federation and Hector Mujica, economic opportunity lead for the Americas at Google.org. Our panel will be moderated by award-winning journalist Giselle Fernandez, currently host of LA Stories for Spectrum News 1.

Don’t Leave Older Workers Out of the Jobs Recovery 

The majority of the long-term unemployed are over the age of 45. A majority of hiring managers admit hesitating when it comes to hiring an older worker, fearing they are not tech-adaptable or might not fit into the work culture. Conversely, they say the older workers already on the job are valued employees. So, where does that leave mid-career workers trying to find a new job in the post-pandemic workforce? Let’s address this age bias directly and examine what’s being done to correct it.

I am very pleased to be hosting this panel of insightful and passionate leaders in an examination of this important issue. Joining me on stage will be Paul Irving, chairman of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging; Mona Mourshed, founding global CEO of Generation; and Marci Alboher, vice president of Encore.org.

WorkingNation Overheard

Our team will also be in Austin to bring you WorkingNation Overheard, our insider access to what America’s thought leaders are saying about the future of education, the future of work, and the future of workers. Over the past three years, we’ve interviewed CEOs, top educators, state and local leaders, and heads of nonprofits at major conferences around the country. We can’t wait to share what we overhear at SXSW EDU in March! Hope to see you there!

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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.

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