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Stories That Empower America's Workforce

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Strength in numbers: How to build a stronger rural America through economic partnerships

Community colleges have a critical seat at the table in rural America
June 27, 2025 | Ramona Schindelheim
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Course sharing is helping college students across the finish line

An Acadeum white paper makes the case for collaboration, not competition
June 25, 2025 | Laura Aka
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What’s next for workers at a California refinery shutting down at the end of the year?

With hundreds of works set to lose their jobs, community stakeholders step in to help ease their transition into new jobs and, possibly, careers
June 23, 2025 | Laura Aka
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These employers will help you earn a no-cost degree or certification while on the job

A growing number of employers are attracting and retaining workers through generous education benefits 
June 9, 2025 | Ramona Schindelheim
Allentown, Pennsylvania

Focus on Allentown, Pennsylvania: With its long manufacturing history, the city is looking to neighborhood-scale manufacturing sites to boost local employment

Mayor Matt Tuerk: ‘When you see people working, it helps you understand what your future might look like’
June 4, 2025 | Laura Aka
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Deep Dive: Will AI take your job? How tech disruption affects work

History suggests technological disruption often yields more jobs, not fewer – but that doesn't mean your job is safe from AI in the future of work
June 2, 2025 | Michael S. James
Spokane Washington

Focus on Spokane, Washington: With a past based in natural resources, leadership is hopeful about its ‘very diversified economy’

Mayor Lisa Brown: ‘We have these emerging sectors in clean energy, in aerospace, and in tech’
May 14, 2025 | Laura Aka
Maria Burns Ortiz is pictured at a gathering of her national 10,000 Small Businesses cohort in NYC at Goldman Sachs.

10,000 Small Businesses helps entrepreneurs scale up their dreams

'10KSB' celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, providing education, capital, and networks of 'growth-oriented entrepreneurs'
May 9, 2025 | Victoria Lim
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Reports | Opinions

Opinion: For skills-based hiring to work, we need the right infrastructure
Scott Cheney
June 26, 2025
Report: American workers want help upskilling to change careers and occupations
Michael S. James
June 13, 2025
Report: Young adults face a career ‘resource gap’ that employers could help fill
Michael S. James
June 6, 2025
Report: One in four older workers are planning to change jobs, but they have concerns
Ramona Schindelheim
May 22, 2025
Opinion: Millions of college graduates are underemployed. How can colleges break the cycle?
Dr. Rita Raichoudhuri
May 16, 2025
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A tech credentialing program changes the lives of three single mothers

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WorkingNation film Between Tradition and Transition tells the story of multiple generations of Latinos in Chicago

Chicago’s working-class Latino communities continue to build better lives for all generations

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Hispanic Doctors

A shortage of Hispanic doctors has far-reaching impact on health care in Latino communities

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Creating more disability-inclusive workplaces

Building a stronger, more resilient company culture through disability inclusion

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Food for Thought Latino and Hispanic Street Vendors

Taking it to the streets: Seeking prosperity through entrepreneurship

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WorkingNation film addresses economic mobility and entrepreneurship in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico: An island in climate and economic crisis

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Weekly Podcasts

Episode 366

As the population ages, the U.S. home caregiving system is tipping toward a crisis

A conversation with Paul Irving, senior advisor, Milken Institute, and consulting producer on the documentary Caregiving
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Episode 366

As the population ages, the U.S. home caregiving system is tipping toward a crisis

A conversation with Paul Irving, senior advisor, Milken Institute, and consulting producer on the documentary Caregiving
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Career Pathways

This woman-owned manufacturing company is proving the chip industry is open to all

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In-Demand Industries

A shortage of Hispanic doctors has far-reaching impact on health care in

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Barriers to Employment

The risk of being left behind in the tech workforce

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People Like Me

Bolstering teachers to boost students’ academic achievement

Work Green, Earn Green Podcast

Episode 110: 

Indiana: The home stretch!

To close out his cross-country road trip, Jay returns to his home state of Indiana to see what happens when his two biggest passions collide: sustainability and sports!

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Episode 110: 

Indiana: The home stretch!

To close out his cross-country road trip, Jay returns to his home state of Indiana to see what happens when his two biggest passions collide: sustainability and sports!

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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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