Post "Pillar" Workforce Strategies

The departure of large F500 companies from the Dayton region has transformed the nature and challenges of workforce development. These “pillar” companies served a number of critical workforce functions, including talent attraction and retention and workforce development through career path management at ostensibly no cost to the community. Post “pillar” workforce development strategies must replace these functions through redefined and enhanced public-private partnerships, creating “between the box” infrastructures for career and development, multiple small scale ,targeted fulfillment tactics, and need to us and share common information about the supply and demand for talent in the region. These transformative changes now need to take place in a time of severe economic uncertainty for the region, state and nation. This session will develop a framework for addressing this strategic transformation and look at the information and analysis related to specific workforce areas.