Our Story

With AI and digitization of everything, the skills required by industry are changing faster than higher education can keep up. With these rapid technological changes paired with current labor market conditions, the workforce and education systems are struggling to keep up. Now is the time for industry, higher education and the workforce system to come together in new ways to build a sustainable future leveraging a skills-based approach to training and hiring. And that is where our story, our strategy and the strength of our mission begins.

I have spent an entire career focused on helping organizations design and deploy innovative strategies to attract, develop and retain talent. Having worked in both higher education and industry, recently as Vice President, Workforce Education and Innovation at Youngstown State University and previously in leadership roles at IBM where I helped launch the CEO’s global platform on “New Collar” talent, I have witnessed first hand the powerful and positive impact that skills-based new collar talent approaches to training and hiring have created for companies and the regional economies and the communities that they serve. 

Come join us on our journey to transform our workforce and education practices where everyone has access and opportunity to thrive in the modern day new collar economy.