Workforce & Learning Pathways In A Period Of Dynamic Change Conference

From the October 6th, 2017 Workforce & Learning Pathways In A Period Of Dynamic Change Conference; Banny Banerjee, Director fo the Stanford Change Labs in the H-STAR Institute looks at... 1. We are entering an era marked by rapid changes and profound questions. 2. Our dominant models of leadership are ill suited for these new class of challenges. 3. System Leadership is a new approach that is a leadership style better suited to scaled and complex challenges - it has implications at personal, organizational, and policy levels.

From the October 6th, 2017 Workforce & Learning Pathways In A Period Of Dynamic Change Conference; Aman Kumar, mediaX at Stanford University Distinguished Visiting Scholar, SAP; Sabine Remdisch, Head of the Institute for Performance Management, Leuphana University; Raquel Coelho, Lemann Center Fellow, Stanford Graduate School of Education and Marcelo Tournier, Director, Innovation Center for Health Technologies, SESI Santa Catarina discuss their organizations initiatives.

From the October 6th, 2017 Workforce & Learning Pathways In A Period Of Dynamic Change Conference; Kristin Campbell Reed, Associate Director, Corporate Giving & Social Responsibility, Genentech; Charlotte Fenner, Partner Resources Director, Starbucks and Sima Yazdani, Sr. Technology Leader, Chief Data Scientist, Cisco Services explain their companies corporate initiatives.

From the October 6th, 2017 Workforce & Learning Pathways In A Period Of Dynamic Change Conference; Tara Behrend, Associate Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, The George Washington University looks at... 1. A person's interest in a field is an important indicator of their long-term success in that field . 2. Mismatches between one's own interests and the requirements of a job lead to a range of negative consequences. 3. Men and people living in high-income countries are less likely to experience interest mismatches. 4. Helping more people to develop interests in less-common fields is an important step in building a diverse and talented workforce; this is the domain of educators, industry members, and communities.

From the October 6th, 2017 Workforce & Learning Pathways In A Period Of Dynamic Change Conference; Alex Kass, Technology & Training Ecosystems, Accenture Labs examines... 1. Digital technology can enable managers to re-imagine how work gets done at the individual level, the team level, and the organizational level. 2. Sustainable transformations often require an integrated approach to all three levels, with clear value propositions for both the organization and the workers involved. 3. Technology can change how workers develop new competencies – and what it means to be competent as an individual, a team, and an organization. 4. The most transformational changes may prove to be at the organizational level – as hierarchical organization and fixed teams of resources giving way to ad-hoc teams formed and re-formed on demand through online labor markets that operate both inside the organization the enterprise boundary. 5. This new organizational model brings great potential benefit to both

From the October 6th, 2017 Workforce & Learning Pathways In A Period Of Dynamic Change Conference; Mitchell Stevens, Associate Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education discusses... 1. Going forward, essentially all people need to plan on obtaining educational credentials over a long span of the life course. 2. Many of these credentials have yet to be invented. 3. The market for credentials that are not conventional college degrees is highly anarchic, creating high risk for credential providers, employers and — especially — consumers. 4. We need to develop a lifelong learning marketplace the better distributes risk and information about credential substance, value, and interoperability. 5. California is an ideal laboratory for building this marketplace.

From the October 6th, 2017 Workforce & Learning Pathways In A Period Of Dynamic Change Conference; Martin Carnoy, Vida Jacks Professor of Education, Stanford Graduate School of Education examines... 1. Investment in training is an integral part of any capital investment program—these are “complementary” investment goods required to choose, implement, and operate the infrastructure of the future. 2. The kinds of investments required to modernize developing countries’ (and even the U.S.’s) infrastructure will be highly sophisticated, high technology driven. Designing the systems, choosing the new technology, implementing it, installing, operating, and maintaining it—all these will require high levels of human capital and therefore the training to produce it. 3. The first level of training required is of decision makers, who will design the most effective long-term solutions for nations’ inadequate and complex transportation systems and how to choose the most appropriate, most cost-effect

From the October 6th, 2017 Workforce & Learning Pathways In A Period Of Dynamic Change Conference; David Grusky, Director, Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, discusses... 1. How does rising inequality affect the U.S. workforce? 2. It reduces the amount of absolute mobility and relative mobility. 3. Two roads to restoring the American dream.

From the October 6th, 2017 Workforce & Learning Pathways In A Period Of Dynamic Change Conference; Denis McDonough, Senior Principal, Markle Foundation examines... 1. Change is coming to the U.S. economy, and we must ensure the development of an ecosystem to train the workforce of the future through a focus on continual learning and skills-building. 2. The United States has traditionally recognized and harnessed technological change to advance American interest, and this time is no different.

From the October 6th, 2017 Workforce & Learning Pathways In A Period Of Dynamic Change Conference; Van Ton-Quinlivan, Vice Chancellor, Workforce & Digital Futures, California Community Colleges discusses.. 1. 6.3 million job openings are predicted for California between 2010 and 2020. 2. “Some college” is the new gateway into the workforce. 3. California needs 1 million more AA, certificate, or industry-valued credentials. 4. Largest system of higher education, with 114 community colleges, respond to differing labor market needs of industry sectors under Doing What Matters for Jobs and the Economy focus.