Reports | Opinions

Increasing economic mobility for people with criminal records

Report: The unveiling of a new policy framework that ‘normalizes opportunity’

April 25, 2023

Laura Aka

Fed: ‘Finding workers with desired skills or experience remained challenging’

Report: 'Lack of available childcare continued to impede labor for participation'

April 19, 2023

Ramona Schindelheim

Stakeholders have responsibility to support Black learners and workers build professional social capital

Analysis: A framework from Jobs for the Future – in partnership with University of Phoenix – offers actions that can be taken by postsecondary institutions and employers

March 3, 2023

Laura Aka

Learning and development leaders can drive agility for the benefit of employees and organizations

Report: LinkedIn Learning releases its 2023 Workplace Learning Report

February 15, 2023

Laura Aka

‘It’s too expensive, learners don’t know where to start, and don’t know enough about digital credentials’

Report: IBM survey finds many misconceptions and questions around STEM training

February 14, 2023

Ramona Schindelheim

Recognizing the workforce not just as an expense, but as an asset

Report: Northeastern University examines human capital management as an employer top priority

February 3, 2023

Laura Aka

The STEM workforce continues to gradually diversify

Report: National Science Foundation tracks gains by women, underrepresented groups, and people with disabilities in STEM careers

February 1, 2023

Ramona Schindelheim

Job seekers are still being offered bonuses and enhanced benefits in tight labor market

Report: The Federal Reserve Beige Book indicates 'Employment continued to grow at a modest to moderate pace'

January 20, 2023

Ramona Schindelheim

How America’s newest elected leaders can fix its broken higher ed system

Opinion: A redesigned postsecondary education system would give high school graduates the opportunity to choose between a more traditional college pathway and skills-based training and education

January 3, 2023

Euan Blair

‘If we aren’t careful, we could be setting ourselves up for a new type of caste system’

Reflections on The Future of Work 2023 from WorkingNation Advisory Board member John Hope Bryant

December 27, 2022

Ramona Schindelheim

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.