Business Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships.
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Business Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships is comprised of employers from a range of industries who are concerned about our nation’s skills gap, who are working with local partners to train and hire community residents for skilled jobs, and who want our country’s policymakers to follow suit and invest, aggressively and effectively, in the skills of America’s workers. BLU seeks to create a common platform from which these diverse business leaders can jointly communicate to national policymakers, the press and the American public about the effective industry-based strategies they’ve developed which could serve as models for a more comprehensive national skills policy.
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Business Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships
Announced at Clinton Global Initiative
On June 30, at CGI America—a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)—National Skills Coalition, the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, Skills for America’s Future, and Corporate Voices for Working Families announced the creation of Business Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships, an initiative to bring diverse business leaders together to help shape a national skills strategy that can address structural skill shortages that are putting the brakes on economic recovery and job creation. Read Press Release.
Business Leaders Profiles
Click on the names below to learn more about the business leaders involved in the BLU initiative:
Gayle Agahi | Director Public Sector Initiatives, Cleveland Clinic
Erick Ajax | Vice President, E.J Ajax and Sons
Beth Cross | President, Sigler Companies
Ernest Dupont | Director, Workforce Development CVS / Caremark
Scott Ellsworth | Vice President, U.S. Operations, Tipco Punch
Pat Flavin | Assistant Vice President, Workforce Initiatives, TJX Companies, Inc.
Susan Hatten | Senior Business Development Executive, Sigler Companies
Jan Hunter | Director, Workforce Planning & Development, John Muir Health
Mike Mandina | President, Optimax
Debbie Mesloh | Senior Director, Government and Public Affairs, Gap, Inc.
Brent O'Bryan | Vice President, Learning & Development, Allied Barton
Mario Rendon | Director, Workforce Strategy & Diversity, Pacific Gas & Electric
Liza Smitherman | Vice President, Professional Development, Jostin Construction
Peter Strange | Chairman, Messer Construction
Michael Tamasi | President & CEO, AccuRounds
Dan Wolf | President, Cape Air
For more information, please contact any of the four BLU sponsor organizations: National Skills Coalition (Andy Van Kleunen); National Fund for Workforce Solutions (Fred Dedrick); Skills for America’s Future (Karen Elzey); or Corporate Voices for Working Families (Steve Wing). BLU is made possible with dedicated support from the Joyce Foundation, along with support from the Ford Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and other foundations underwriting the four partner organizations.
