WorkforceRx: Agile and Inclusive Strategies for Employers, Educators and Workers in Unsettled Times

Product Description

Right People, Right Skills, Right Time–

“This is the future of work”

WorkforceRx is a collection of proven workforce development strategies refined for the private, public, education, and nonprofit sectors–a playbook for connecting work and workers with training in an uncertain economy.

Who will benefit from this book? Industry leaders, educational leaders, economic and workforce development practitioners, elected officials and public policy makers, foundation officers, and citizens who care about their community. Everyone can take action to form an ecosystem of the willing and approach the future of work with a new and agile mindset.

Use this playbook for the future of work–

If you need skilled workers but can’t find them
If you want partnerships that move at the speed of need
If you want to connect well-trained students to the right jobs right now
If you want to grow an inclusive workforce from within
If you want social and economic mobility by connecting your community with well-paying jobs
If you want to better understand how diversity, equity, and inclusion reflect the workers of the future
Finding novel ways to collaborate and braid resources, stimulate diversity by making education and career opportunities more reachable, design the right on- and off-ramps to create supportive infrastructure for the emerging gig economy–
WorkforceRx offers a clear-cut, proven strategy for each.

Review

“Van Ton-Quinlivan has mastered workforce development from more perspectives than anyone in the field. She knows the differing interests of private industry, the public sector, higher education and the union movement, and has offered up ways to bridge those worlds to collectively bring a diversity of working people into good jobs.”
-Andy Van Kleunen, CEO, National Skills Coalition

“This book is great storytelling and a master class in big design thinking. Well worth reading.”
-Tammy Johns, CEO of Strategy & Talent, former SVP Innovation and Workforce Solutions of ManpowerGroup

“Creating an inclusive economy takes intentionality. This book outlines the levers every state and region have at their disposal to create economic opportunity and equitable recovery.”
-Stuart Andreason, Assistant Vice President and Director of the Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

“Van has rewritten the human capital theory and practice. The book offers a critical analysis and thoughtful proposition of the skills ecosystem that the new economy needs. Van calls for all stakeholders to develop a sustainable and inclusive skills ecosystem.”
-Dr. Soon Joo Gog, Chief Skills Officer, SkillsFuture Singapore

“A revolutionary set of public-private partnership prescriptions for how to reignite the American Dream from a unique leader who has been on both sides of the education/employment divide.
WorkforceRx should be compulsory reading for every elected official, college president, and CEO.”
-Ryan Craig, Managing Director of Achieve Partners and author of A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College and College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education

“Chock full of practical advice for business people who need to find and grow talent. The book pays keen attention to diversity, equity and inclusion and how companies don’t need to go at it alone.”
-Helen Rule, Board President of the International Women’s Forum, Chairman of Imatech Group of Companies, Australia

“Van Ton-Quinlivan is a leader, a storyteller, and a problem solver, all key to helping cure the ills of our outdated and outmoded workforce development systems.
WorkforceRx offers a prescription for navigating the new world of work, where postsecondary credentials are a critical part of the treatment and where business leaders, educators, policymakers and the workers themselves must work together to build a healthier new ecosystem.
-Jamie Merisotis, President & CEO, Lumina Foundation

“Van Ton-Quinlivan has pioneer