Reports | Opinions

Opinion: Workforce development is a perfect opportunity for Congress to come together this year

IBM: Modernizing workforce development programs can benefit low-income and adult learners at different stages in their lives

January 8, 2024

Justina Nixon-Saintil

Opinion: When we fail to talk about career exploration in schools, students pay the price

High school career decisions impact students’ economic mobility and our economy. So why are we leaving it up to chance?

January 3, 2024

Allison Danielsen

Opinion: Yes, AI can create a better world of work, if businesses give it the chance

The question is: Will employers fumble this opportunity?

December 13, 2023

Todd Lewis and Jason Radisson

Report: The number of people working in freelance jobs in the U.S. is at an all-time high

The latest annual Freelance Forward study from Upwork notes freelancers are optimistic about future prospects

December 12, 2023

Laura Aka

Report: ‘Several Districts continued to describe the labor markets as tight with skilled workers in short supply’

Fed's Beige Book: Hiring continues at a flat to moderate pace around the country

November 29, 2023

Ramona Schindelheim

Report: Low-wage earners are stuck in a ‘trap’

A call for stakeholders’ participation to build an equitable career navigation ecosystem

November 29, 2023

Laura Aka

Report: AI technologies ‘lack cultural competence and demonstrate bias in hiring’

Upwardly Global - an immigrant advocacy group - says AI has an inconsistent track record in the field of career guidance

November 22, 2023

Laura Aka

Opinion: There’s a massive child care shortage, and it’s draining the workforce. Here’s how we can fix it.

'We must do far more to better support child care professionals – and that includes reimagining how we prepare individuals for working in one of the most vital vocations in the country.'

November 15, 2023

Amy Smith

Report: The potential of new industry apprenticeships to move 800,000 Americans into better-paying careers

Multiverse and Burning Glass Institute examine which in-demand jobs could be filled with learn-and-earn training

November 13, 2023

Ramona Schindelheim

Report: What are the barriers to effective partnerships between higher education and workforce?

A new WGU Labs report says ‘a collective frustration with progress’ fuels urgency to find solutions

November 3, 2023

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.