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Report: Which in-demand skills are employers hiring for?

LinkedIn's Skills on the Rise 2025 lists the top 15 skills employers are increasingly hiring for

March 19, 2025

Ramona Schindelheim

Opinion: The untapped potential of small businesses in workforce development

'The solution to both the country’s internship supply problem and its talent shortage is right in front of us'

March 10, 2025

Dana Stephenson

Report: Aging population threatens the American way of life

North America is among a ‘first wave’ of global regions feeling the impact of depopulation, McKinsey report suggests

February 28, 2025

Michael S. James

Report: Competition for college internships is getting tougher

The availability of internships is on the decline, even as more students are seeking them

February 20, 2025

Laura Aka

Report: Nearly one in four older workers are planning to change jobs this year

The report from AARP also shows that these workers say they will need assistance making a job change

January 16, 2025

Ramona Schindelheim

Opinion: U.S. workers are falling behind. Can they catch up?

'Building foundational skills will enable workers to move forward faster and more effectively in their further education and employment.' 

January 6, 2025

Chelsea Miller

Opinion: Should employers care about family caregivers?

'Organizations that tackle the caregiving challenge can attract and retain exceptional talent'

November 29, 2024

Paul Irving

Report: Which of the nation’s top employers are advancing the careers of their workers?

American Opportunity Index: Top employers are paying and promoting workers at more than double the rate of their peer companies for the same jobs

October 28, 2024

Ramona Schindelheim

Report: The City of Los Angeles steps up efforts to be more inclusive of the older worker

A new report lays out a plan to bridge the gap between the city’s employers and experienced workers

October 9, 2024

Laura Aka

Report: The role community colleges can play in growing U.S. apprenticeships

Findings indicate apprenticeship opportunities are significantly underutilized

September 25, 2024

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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