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Let’s talk about what’s ahead at the intersection of education and work

Read about our WorkingNation panel proposals for SXSW EDU 2023 and VOTE!
By Ramona Schindelheim
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WorkingNation is excited to once again be heading to SXSW EDU in March to talk about the intersection of education and work, and solutions to barriers that are keeping people from good, family-sustaining jobs and careers.

We have a lot of exciting ideas that we would like to see come to life on the stages in Austin the week of March 6 through March 9. Help us turn these ideas into reality by casting your vote for our ideas.

Be part of the SXSW EDU voting community by heading to the PanelPicker and learn about how you can help send out panels to Austin!

Check out all our ideas here, then go to the PanelPicker page to sign up, sign in, and vote now for these ideas! Once signed up, you can also follow the proposal links in this article.

The Invisible Barrier to Economic Mobility

Let’s shatter the myth! While a 4-year degree can signal knowledge in a certain field, more than half the workforce is Skilled Through Alternate Routes (STARs), including through community college, credentialing, work experience, and military service. 60% of Black, 55% of Hispanic, 66% of rural, and 61% of veteran workers are STARs. The paper ceiling is the invisible barrier keeping workers without a bachelor’s degree out of higher-paying, family-sustaining jobs. Let’s shatter this barrier!

Vote here for this proposal.

DEIA: Expanding Career Pathways for the Disabled

The value of diversity in the workforce has long been recognized and now the discussion around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has been expanded to include accessibility (DEIA). Employers that include people with physical and neurological disabilities cultivate better creativity, innovation, and problem-solving skills. Let’s talk about pathways to hiring, retention, and promotion for people with disabilities.

Vote here for this proposal.

Green Jobs Are More Abundant than You Think

Helping the environment while helping yourself. Green jobs are one of our greatest hopes for employment growth – as environmental challenges multiply, which they will, so too does the need to meet those challenges with a wide range of skills. Green jobs extend to water management, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and infrastructure improvement, as well as jobs you may be surprised to learn are green. Find out how to get those skills and where the jobs are. 

  • Bill Ritter, Center for the New Energy Economy, Director/former Governor of Colorado
  • Rachel Sederberg, Lightcast, Research Manager & Labor Economist
  • Margot Brown, Environmental Defense Fund, VP Justice and Equity
  • Moderator: Paula DiPerna, CDP, Special Consultant/WorkingNation, Environmental Consultant

Vote here for this proposal.

Charting the Military-to-Civilian Career Pathway

For some of the 200,000 women and men who transition from military service into the civilian workforce each year, finding a good-paying job right out of the military can be challenging. This panel examines education and training programs and other workforce initiatives that are providing a pathway for unemployed and underemployed veterans – and military spouses – to solid family-sustaining careers.

  • Carol Eggert, Comcast NBCUniversal, SVP Veterans & Military Affairs
  • Jennifer O’Dee, JPMorgan Chase, Executive Director of Global Veteran Talent
  • Moderator: Joan Lynch, WorkingNation, Chief Content and Programming Officer

Vote here for this proposal.

Improving College Outcomes for Latinx Students

For more than a decade, Hispanic Federation’s CREAR Futuros (College Readiness, Achievement and Retention) program has helping increase college access, retention, and graduation rates for LatinX students. This panel takes a deep dive into CREAR, sharing important insights into how the peer-mentoring program has improved career outcomes for more than 8,000 students. We’ll introduce you to an educator and an employer helping make these solid gains a reality.  

Vote here for this proposal.

Leveling the Playing Field for All Founders

Access to capital is the fuel that makes startups go and access to community keeps them running. But access to the resources and capital needed to grow one’s business is still not evenly distributed. Despite being the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S., only 3% of Latino-owned companies ever reach $1 million in revenue. 56% of black business owners report obstacles obtaining credit to grow their businesses. We examine programs and organizations that are changing that equation.

Vote here for this proposal.

Student Mental Health Crisis Hits Enrollment

The numbers are staggering. College enrollment has fallen by 1.3M students since the pandemic. The enrollment plunge is primarily due to people who decided college wasn’t worth it. Right? Wrong. A new Gallup and Lumina Foundation study shows high demand for higher ed. 85% of those who left school are interested in returning, but stress has increased dramatically over the past 2 years for college students – especially for people of color. We must pay attention and help students stay in school.

Vote here for this proposal.

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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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