Watch the Full Video of the Event below or click here to see the Child Care panel.
Watch the Video of the Panel ‘Child Care: The Backbone of Recovery’:
The pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges for workers and learners—particularly, for those who are low-income and underserved. The current worker shortage requires urgent attention to rethink how we confront and address these obstacles and inequities.
Keynote Speakers Include:
- Martin Walsh, U.S. Secretary of Labor
- Barbara Humpton, President & CEO, Siemens Corporation
- Mike Rowe, CEO, mikeroweWORKS Foundation
- Kristof Terryn, CEO, Zurich North America
Featured Speakers Include:
- Alessandra Lezama, CEO, TOOTRiS
- Governor Eric Holcomb, State of Indiana
- Suzanne Clark, President & CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Chris Sharkey, President of Community Engagement, Corning Incorporated
- Ardine Williams, Vice President of Workforce Development, Amazon
- Lydia Logan, Vice President of Global Education and Workforce, IBM
- Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL)
- Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
- Maurice Jones, CEO, OneTen
- Sean McGarvey, President, North America’s Building Trades Unions
- Christopher Griffin, President & CEO, USG Corporation
- Kwasi Mitchell, Chief Purpose Officer, Deloitte US
- Jamie Merisotis, President & CEO, Lumina Foundation
- Ravi Kumar, President, Infosys
- Judaline Cassidy, Founder, Tools & Tiaras
Event Agenda Topics:
Getting America Back to Work: Putting Americans back to work and filling open jobs is the challenge of our time — individual opportunity and our competitiveness as a nation depend on it.
Solving the Workforce Shortage: Whether as a direct result from the pandemic or not, most industries are experiencing significant difficulty filling jobs. Identifying what is needed—from both the private and public sectors—to solve the workforce shortage while preparing for future talent needs tops many employers’ priority lists.
Childcare: The Backbone to Recovery
Childcare is a workforce issue. If we’re to address the people-jobs gap, we need a commitment to solutions that support working parents, particularly women.
Bridging Education to Employment: With many challenges plaguing our education and workforce systems, more work needs to be done to bridge the transition from education to employment opportunities. Work-based learning is an important solution and the employer community can be the changemaker.
Black Americans Are Out of Work by the Millions — the Private Sector is Fixing That: At the start of 2020, the unemployment rate among Black workers was the lowest it had ever been, then the pandemic hit. Today, the unemployment rate for Black men is double that of white men. If we’re to close the people-jobs gap, we need everyone off the bench. The private sector is answering the call.
Digital Skills and the Workforce of the Future: In 2021, every company is a tech company, and skills for the digital economy are in demand. Public-private partnerships are training workers with these skills, filling open positions, and growing the economy.
Employers Are the Colleges of the Future: When it comes to employer engagement in workforce development, companies are going beyond sitting on advisory boards and providing tuition reimbursement for their employees. Some are entering the training and credentialing market, not as part of their core business model, but as an attempt to improve the number and quality of skilled workers for their industry or for the entire labor market. How are they providing better quality, more affordable training for workers, and improving outcomes and opportunities for advancement?
Common Grounds Workforce Crossover Event: What is the federal government’s role in helping to solve the challenge of our time? Hear from bipartisan leaders in the U.S. House and Senate.
