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Report: Rural America at risk of losing another generation of young workers

A new report examines the tech barriers to career advancement for workers in rural communities and ways to address them

September 24, 2024

Ramona Schindelheim

Report: The U.S. is facing its largest labor shortage in history

Lightcast's The Rising Storm predicts a six-million worker deficit by 2032

September 17, 2024

Ramona Schindelheim

Report: Trauma and toxic stress can impact access to career opportunities

A new white paper calls on workforce development stakeholders to create cultures of empathy and mental well-being

September 10, 2024

Laura Aka

Opinion: Gen Z college grads have different expectations about work. Here’s how employers can meet them.

"Failing to incorporate early talent strategies could further exacerbate ongoing labor shortages."

August 14, 2024

Jane Swift

Opinion: Why corporate America has much at stake – and much to learn – from community colleges

"As a growing number of employers reconsider traditional degree requirements for potential hires, community colleges become a logical place to scout out talent."

July 24, 2024

Roy Mathew and Aneesh Sohoni

Opinion: The Pell Grant no longer reflects the needs of today’s learners. Congress can change that.  

Passage of short-term financial aid bill could help millions of working, military-affiliated, and older learners

July 3, 2024

Dr. Mark D. Milliron and Dr. Richard Rhodes

Report: Workers feel ‘under threat from technology, stress, and shifting workplace norms’

ADP Research Institute report surveys employees around the globe about what they want from their employers

July 1, 2024

Laura Aka

Report: More than 70% of workers worry Social Security won’t be there for them when it’s time to retire 

Catherine Collinson, Transamerica Institute: “Millions of U.S. workers are at risk of not achieving a financially secure retirement."

June 25, 2024

Ramona Schindelheim

Report: Workers who are foreign born – and receiving English upskilling on the job – experience greater retention and career mobility

A first-of-its-kind report from EnGen reveals - from the immigrant and refugee points of view - the impact of this language benefit

June 11, 2024

Laura Aka

Opinion: To tackle the talent shortage, colleges must become ‘work experience’ brokers

'Building stronger pathways to work-based learning opportunities is critical to reversing the trend lines that are undermining confidence in higher education.'

May 29, 2024

Dana Stephenson

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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