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‘Two non-traditional approaches hold promise for further review and perhaps broad replication’

Reflections on The Future of Work 2023 from WorkingNation Advisory Board member Les Range

December 27, 2022

Ramona Schindelheim

‘The intense interest being sparked by ChatGPT should be sounding alarm bells for many in the workforce’

Reflections on The Future of Work 2023 from WorkingNation Advisory Board member William J. Raduchel

December 27, 2022

Ramona Schindelheim

These 7 principles could help employers attract and retain older frontline workers

Report: Analysis and research makes case for hiring and promoting older workers

December 17, 2022

Ramona Schindelheim

A call to action: Community colleges and employers must work together to fill the skilled labor shortfall

Report: Harvard's Joseph Fuller and Manjari Raman offer a roadmap on how to better prepare workers for the jobs today and tomorrow

December 13, 2022

Ramona Schindelheim

Employers report continued difficulty finding workers for highly-skilled jobs

Report: The Federal Reserve Board's latest Beige Book says employers have jobs but not the right workers for them

November 30, 2022

Ramona Schindelheim

Labor market still favors the worker, with 1.7 open jobs per each unemployed person

Report: The BLS's JOLT report shows 10.3 million open jobs

November 30, 2022

Ramona Schindelheim

There are nearly 2 open jobs for every 1 jobseeker

Report: Bureau of Labor Statistics says there are 10.7 million open jobs

November 1, 2022

Ramona Schindelheim

Fed’s Beige Book: Trends in the labor market

Report: Federal Reserve says the labor market is tight, but showing some improvement

October 19, 2022

Ramona Schindelheim

Education and the metaverse: Will it close or exacerbate equity gaps?

Opinion: 'Early experiments with the metaverse have struggled with issues of representation.'

October 12, 2022

Bharani Rajakumar

A watershed moment for the future of tech talent

Opinion: "Our approach must go beyond adding a few training programs or supersizing a class of graduates. We need to think on a much grander scale."

September 15, 2022

Tom Monahan

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.