The Simple Truth
The future of work and employment is changing, much faster than we ever could have predicted. The pace of change in job-related skills has never been more dramatic. The impact will be felt across all of our society. And we have never before had to re-educate and retrain much of the middle age and older workforce like we do now.
The Reason
The reason for this widespread economic pain? Structural unemployment, which is defined as “unemployment resulting from industrial reorganization, typically due to technological change, rather than fluctuations in supply or demand.” In other words, as automation and robotics replace people in the workforce, a large sector of our population will rapidly become unemployed.
The Causes
What is causing structural unemployment to proliferate our workforce so quickly? The following four key factors coming together like never before:
The Solution
In order to achieve a sustainable, globally competitive economy that provides good jobs and wages for Americans, business, labor, local government leaders, education leaders and citizens must mobilize.
WorkingNation: Powerful Voices and Storytelling
In 2016, WorkingNation was formed with one mission – to raise and elevate awareness, finding and sharing solutions to this structural unemployment crisis that is facing our country.
To accomplish this crucial goal, WorkingNation illuminates the heartfelt and human stories that capture this distress and resolve. We organize town halls, publish important news, information and advice, and we produce moving documentaries.
WorkingNation brings powerful voices together to reveal the real people and organizations attacking this issue in their communities. We are working to build consensus and collaboration between business leaders, the academic community and the American public. Our hope is to expose hard truths through our storytelling about this unemployment emergency, in order to create and amplify the right response.
You Can Spread Our Message
Time is running out – we all have to do something to make this shift. Please lend your voice and get involved now. You can spread our message and join the conversation about the future of work on our Facebook page, and follow us on Twitter.
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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.
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.
