Building a highly skilled workforce is critical to strengthening and supporting Houston’s global competitiveness and to improving economic opportunity for its residents. These thought leader conversations highlight research, tools and practices that inform workforce development decisions.
General Assembly's Tom Ogletree discusses the organization's pioneering approach to education and career transformation focused on in-demand business skills in coding, data analytics, project management, a...
Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Fuller and Accenture's Mary Beth Gracy explore the apprenticeship as an underutilized tool for developing talent for a broad scope of industries and job roles while clos...
Tamar Jacoby, president of think tank Opportunity America, joins Peter Beard, Greater Houston Partnership senior vice president of regional workforce development, for an UpSkill Works Forum exploring Oppor...
How do American workers view the economy? What do they think about the skills they have and about obtaining more? Working Nation President Jane Oates and Greater Houston Partnership Vice President of Regio...
Guests Marcela Escobari and Ian Seyal, of the Brookings Institution's Workforce of the Future initiative, talk with the Partnership's Peter Beard about reskilling opportunities and mobility.
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a fundamental change in the education and skills needed to be successful in today’s dynamic economy. These discussions with employers, researchers and educators underscore the skills workers need today and will need in the future, and how these skills can be identified, developed and demonstrated.
Guild Education's Employer Solutions Principal Matthew Daniel and Peter Beard, Greater Houston Partnership senior vice president of regional workforce development, discuss how employers can make education ...
Greg Hambrick, of Fast Forward Works; Dr. Fred Oswald, professor and director of graduate studies of Rice University School of Social Sciences' Dr. Fred Oswald; and Mandy Williams, aka "Black," of RED+BLAC...
Career counselors and educators are instrumental in helping individuals make informed career decisions. These conversations present data, tools and information educators, career counselors and community leaders can use to help individuals identify and navigate pathways to good jobs and to advance their careers.
Parker Harvey, principal economist for the Gulf Coast Workforce Board and Workforce Solutions, shares labor market data including job recovery, the establishment of new businesses during the COVID-19 pande...
Business leaders discuss strategies and approaches that support an inclusive economic and workforce recovery and the new job recovery initiative Houston Back on Track.
Personas can be powerful tools that help employers and organizations that provide skills training and other supports understand todayâs jobseekers.
Bryant Black, the Greater Houston Partnership's director of regional workforce development, and guests Victoria Chen, co-founder and executive director of BridgeYear, and Laura Chrisco Brennan, director of...
How do Community based organizations feed the talent pipeline? Mary Silbert, Northwest Assistance Ministries learning center director; Samantha Sherman, Wesley Community Center chief program officer; and E...
The Texas Workforce Commission's Courtney Arbour and Dale A. Robertson discuss with the Partnershipâs Peter Beard funding available for skills development training programs and for individuals who want t...
Gulf Coast Workforce Board Principal Economist Parker Harvey shares insights into May and June labor market data for the Greater Houston region.
Katherine Taylor of Genesys Works Houston, Jeffrey Moss of Parker Dewey LLC. and the Partnership's Peter Beard examine the value of remote and micro-internships for businesses and interns.
Gulf Coast Workforce Board Principal Economist Parker Harvey and the Partnership's Peter Beard discuss the changing labor market due to COVID-19 along with current and future workforce challenges.
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