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Opinion: Skills-based hiring is just the first step

'What matters most, and what many businesses haven’t yet invested in, is what happens next: the training, coaching, and continuous investment in development that new hires get starting on day one.'

October 19, 2023

Merabeth Martin

Report: The manufacturing industry is actively seeking highly-skilled workers

DEI is key to filling the manufacturing skills gap

October 11, 2023

Ramona Schindelheim

Report: Apprenticeships are a pathway to advancement for workers in ‘high-churn, low-pay jobs’

A new study sponsored by Multiverse notes economic mobility is possible across industries and occupations

September 28, 2023

Laura Aka

Opinion: Career mobility should not come with an expiration date for older women

'Economic inclusion means we all should be able to pursue goals of career advancement without fear of an arbitrary expiration date.'

September 27, 2023

Beth Almeida

Report: Facing challenges, Hispanic students consider leaving school

Results of a recent study show Hispanic students confront difficulties on their postsecondary pathways

September 27, 2023

Laura Aka

Report: The face of union membership in California has changed over the last two decades

Findings from the UC Berkeley Labor Center note union members include more women and people of color

September 1, 2023

Laura Aka

Report: Almost 2 in 5 workers say their jobs are of ‘low’ or ‘medium’ quality

A new survey from Jobs for the Future (JFF) indicates 'an apparent resource and opportunity gap between high and low-medium quality job holders'

August 31, 2023

Laura Aka

Report: The number of open U.S. jobs is at a two-year low

There are now 1.5 available jobs for every one unemployed person

August 29, 2023

Ramona Schindelheim

Report: Research highlights the importance of planning for work, as well as finances and well-being

Findings from a Transamerica and MIT AgeLab survey provide Insights on workers’ views as they progress through their working lives

August 23, 2023

Laura Aka

Report: A dramatic rise in applications from young people for work in the renewable energy sector

Research from Handshake – a jobs platform – also notes energy companies are actively recruiting young talent

July 20, 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.