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The need to make registered apprenticeships more equitable

Report: Findings from Jobs for the Future – JFF suggest creating greater access for youth apprentices

September 13, 2022

Laura Aka

Support for displaced workers

Report: SkillUp - a coalition of more than 90 organizations - shares the impact it has made since its 2020 launch

September 8, 2022

Laura Aka

‘Overall labor market conditions remained tight…’

Report: Federal Reserve Beige Book shows hiring rose at a modest to moderate pace over the last six weeks

September 7, 2022

Ramona Schindelheim

Building a digital ladder

Opinion: We must prioritize funding for new learning-by-doing workforce models

August 24, 2022

Ryan Craig

Youth and employers want to know more about non-degree education pathways

Report: Agreement that there should be more non-degree hiring but concerns about the impact of lacking a college degree

August 9, 2022

Laura Aka

Hiring last month exceeded economists’ forecasts: 528,000 new jobs added

Report: BLS reports strong job gains in July

August 5, 2022

Ramona Schindelheim

Investors and executives are increasingly demanding information on disability inclusion efforts

Report: The 2022 Disability Equality Index releases information on what more than 400 companies are doing to ensure greater inclusion

July 19, 2022

Laura Aka

What is not causing the skills gap

Opinion: The Competency-Based Education Network argues that the "skills gap isn’t about what we teach. It’s about what we measure."

July 14, 2022

Amber Garrison Duncan and Brooks Doherty

U.S. jobs report shows strong labor market

Report: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports payrolls rose by 372,000 workers last month

July 8, 2022

Ramona Schindelheim

U.S. tech and data science proficiencies are on the decline

Report: The Coursera Global Skills Report 2022

June 14, 2022

Laura Aka

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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