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Founder & CEO

“The impact of technology, globalization, longevity, and a challenged education system is disrupting the workforce like never before.”
Art Bilger
Founder & CEO, WorkingNation

Art Bilger, Founder & CEO

Art Bilger is the Founder and CEO of WorkingNation, a nonprofit media organization he launched in 2016 to raise awareness about the changing nature of employment in the United States. Through storytelling and strategic content, WorkingNation highlighted the impact of advancing technology, globalization, and demographic shifts on the workforce, while showcasing solutions to the challenges they presented. The linkage between employment and “purpose” in life was also a central theme of the organization’s work.

In 2025, Bilger donated WorkingNation to JFF (Jobs for the Future), enabling the organization to launch a first-of-its-kind brand studio dedicated to elevating stories that inspire action around the future of work. This major gift ensures the continuation and expansion of WorkingNation’s mission.

A seasoned finance and media executive as well as a venture capitalist, Bilger has held senior leadership roles across the corporate and investment landscape. He served as Co-Head of Corporate Finance at Drexel Burnham Lambert, was a founding partner of Apollo Advisors, the President of New World Communications Group, and Vice Chairman of Akamai Technologies. His media experience includes serving as an investment banker for Turner Broadcasting and CNN, a board member of Telemundo, and President of New World Communications, Fox’s largest group of independent television stations at the time. He was also an Executive Producer of the Academy Award–winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom.

Bilger is deeply committed to civic and philanthropic efforts. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Skirball Cultural Center, is a longtime board member of Bet Tzedek, a legal aid organization, and serves on the board of StandWithUs. He has also been a founding supporter of Charity: Water and Innovation: Africa, reflecting his long-standing focus on education, access to clean water, and global development.

In recognition of his wide-ranging professional accomplishments and humanitarian contributions, Bilger was honored with the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2023.

Bilger earned a Bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He also completed a 16-year term on the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School Board of Overseers, where he was engaged in numerous initiatives, including founding the school’s Data and Analytics program.

Art Bilger on why he started WorkingNation

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.

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