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Opinion: For skills-based hiring to work, we need the right infrastructure

Cheney: 'Imagine a future where job descriptions, credential evaluations, and candidate skills all speak the same language.'

June 26, 2025

Scott Cheney

Report: American workers want help upskilling to change careers and occupations

Many say they are willing to switch occupations in pursuit of opportunities, but face obstacles such as time and money

June 13, 2025

Michael S. James

Report: Young adults face a career ‘resource gap’ that employers could help fill

Tallo CEO suggests doing more to fill the ‘resource gap’ could help employers ‘win the next generation of talent’

June 6, 2025

Michael S. James

Report: One in four older workers are planning to change jobs, but they have concerns

AARP and Indeed launch a new job search platform and career resources hub for older workers and job seekers

May 22, 2025

Ramona Schindelheim

Opinion: Millions of college graduates are underemployed. How can colleges break the cycle?

Raichoudhuri: 'Breaking the cycle of underemployment starts with earlier, more intentional exposure to the world of work'

May 16, 2025

Dr. Rita Raichoudhuri

Report: Are we making learner support systems too complicated?

ideas42 CEO Bridgette Gray: "Sometimes the most powerful interventions aren’t about adding more – they’re about removing barriers"

May 1, 2025

Ramona Schindelheim

Report: Gen Z pessimistic about work and life success, survey suggests

Goodwill 'Closing the Opportunity Gap' report, drawn from McKinsey data, suggests many in Gen Z aged 18-24 doubt they'll ever own a home or retire

April 25, 2025

Michael S. James

Report: A case study on how to implement skills-first hiring

Iowa's Tear the Paper Ceiling strategy to hire state workers

March 31, 2025

Ramona Schindelheim

Report: AI use in the workforce must promote ‘shared prosperity’

A new call to action from Jobs for the Future and its JFF Labs asks, ‘Is AI making us all better off?’

March 27, 2025

Laura Aka

Report: Community college students on what’s needed to succeed in their job hunt

CompTIA research shows most believe their degree plus an industry-recognized certification leads to career advancement

March 20, 2025

Laura Aka

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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