JVS SoCal, a regional nonprofit leader in workforce development for more than 87 years, has partnered with WorkingNation, a national nonprofit campaign dedicated to helping Americans prepare for a rapidly changing labor market, to create a mini-documentary video about the life-changing JVS BankWork$® career training program.
The video was screened at the 21st Annual Strictly Business L.A. Awards Luncheon May 24 at The Beverly Hilton and released as an episode in the WorkingNation-produced Do Something Awesome series.
Part of JVS SoCal’s JVSWorks® suite of career training programs that includes JVS HealthWorks® and JVS ApartmentWorks®, the JVS BankWork$ program prepares job seekers for entry-level positions in the financial services industry. The intensive eight-week program consists of job training, job placement assistance and continuous coaching for career advancement, providing not only skills training but direct access to top employers.
With an 89 percent placement rate and a 90 percent retention rate at six months, the award-winning JVS BankWork$ program has proven that careers in banking can be valuable and rewarding.
Bringing new talent into the industry is vitally important as the global banking industry is expected to exceed $163,058 billion in 2018 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8 percent over the next few years, according to Research and Markets.
Each episode in the Do Something Awesome series highlights a different scalable program that is working to create a more sustainable workforce in a rapidly changing U.S. economy. As the 18th episode of WorkingNation’s heartfelt, human mini-docs, the 4.5-minute video highlights how investing in training, curricula, and infrastructure — like the kind that the JVS BankWork$ program provides — can prepare a greater number of workers for in-demand jobs with career pathways.
Guests viewed the mini-documentary at the annual JVS Strictly Business L.A. Awards Luncheon, a premier networking event that once again brought together hundreds of business leaders and partners on one common theme; this year, the future of workforce development.
2018 Strictly Business L.A. keynote speaker, investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder and CEO of WorkingNation, Art Bilger, delivered remarks on the future of work and how WorkingNation is leveraging the power of media and institutional partnerships to motivate workforce thought leaders and empower organizations like JVS SoCal that train and reskill workers for new positions.
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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.
