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The big workforce issues of 2023 and what to do about them

Reflections on The Future of Work 2023 from our WorkingNation Advisory Board
By Ramona Schindelheim
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We asked our WorkingNation Advisory Board to share their thoughts on the most important issues and challenges facing the workforce and the labor market in the coming year. Read their thoughts on The Future of Work 2023.

As we move into the new year, WorkingNation is taking this moment to examine where the country is at in its efforts to break down the barriers that many workers continue to face in finding and retaining family-sustaining work in an ever-changing workplace.

Since our founding in 2016, we’ve assembled a distinguished and respected panel of thought leaders in business, education, policy, and nonprofits to help keep us at the forefront of the conversation around solutions to these challenges in our labor market.

WorkingNation has invited the members of our Advisory Board to share their thoughts on the key issues that still need to be addressed in 2023 and beyond, and to offer up some examples of programs and policies that are working, or could work, in the coming months and year.

Here is a sampling of what they tell us.

“Both educators and employers are failing to meet the challenge of the moment: how to create a steady pipeline of workers required to keep the U.S. economy competitive and prospering.” – Joseph Fuller, professor of management practice and co-heard of the Managing the Future of Work Project at the Harvard Business School

“We are rapidly becoming a high-tech, high-touch society in which the American worker needs a new set of technical skills that up until now was optional. We must make the appropriate investments in our future workforce today or risk widening the divide tomorrow.” – John Hope Bryant, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Operation Hope

“Tens of millions across the world continue to face systemic barriers to even entering employment. Cracking the code on reducing hiring barriers in entry-level tech jobs, which are among the fastest-growing job roles globally, will also be an important piece of the puzzle.” – Mona Mourshed, executive director of Generation

“Flexible schedules and compensation arrangements, clear and open communications, well-designed and collaborative environments, and other adaptations can help employers recruit and retain not just essential workers who are older, but essential workers of all ages.” – Paul Irving, senior fellow at the Milken Institute

“By investing in real practice change through their recruitment strategies, leading companies are opening doors for diverse and underrepresented talent. The challenge now is ensuring that individuals can gain the skills that employers need while creating a seamless journey from training to employment.” – Gerald Chertavian, founder and CEO of Year Up

You can read their full reflections, and those of other members of our Advisory Board in our special The Future of Work 2023 series here. Check back in the coming weeks as we add more articles to the series.

Over these past six years, WorkingNation has been on a mission to create and distribute powerful stories about the nation’s current and future state of work that educates, inspires, and connects people, thereby driving decision makers to scale solutions that can produce and sustain a thriving workforce.

We emphatically recommit to that mission in 2023.

“WorkingNation content will continue to reflect and advance the conversations around important workforce topics, including skills-based hiring, upskilling to fill jobs in in-demand industries, people with disabilities in the workforce, expanding inclusive hiring for underrepresented groups, and more,” pledges our founder and CEO Art Bilger.

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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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