“We hope that we can help facilitate people’s movement through the labor market with a better understanding of all of the opportunities that are available and then make sure that employers can see that talent that they, they didn’t recognize before,” according to Stuart Andreason, director, Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
WorkingNation sat down with Andreason at Presented by JFF Horizons – See Beyond 2022 in New Orleans.
The mission of the Center is to build research and evidence around the experiences that low-income, low- and moderate-income workers face in the economy. Andreason says, “We want to understand what’s happening for them, but also opportunities to promote and advance their economic mobility and resilience.”
“Imagine someone that’s not had a lot of opportunities in their life. What if people don’t have the same social networks that we do and they don’t understand what it means to get into an IT field, or they don’t understand what it means to get into a hot, growing job. We hope that we can build tools that help bridge some of those gaps and create some networks and understanding of the great opportunities that are available.”
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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.
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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.
