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Workforce Leadership Café #4 — Greater Memphis Chamber

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Thu Feb 1, 2024

Date

Thu Feb 1, 2024
9:00am – 9:45am EST

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Contact

    eop.program@aspeninstitute.org

Hosts

  1. Economic Opportunities Program
  2. Workforce Leadership Academies
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Description

In this Workforce Leadership Café, we continue conversations about the importance of talent development for the workforce development field’s own workforce.Recent Cafés explored this topic with leaders from a workforce board, a community college and statewide intermediary partnership, and philanthropy. This time, we talk with leaders from a chamber of commerce in one of the fastest growing job markets in the country.Join us to hear from representatives of the Greater Memphis Chamber, which serves as the voice of business in the Memphis, Tennessee, region. How and why have they created opportunities for talent development for the professionals leading the local workforce development ecosystem? We’re looking forward to a conversation with: 

  • Sondra Howell, Vice President of Talent Innovation, Greater Memphis Chamber.
  • Jessica Mosley, Director of Community Development, Greater Memphis Chamber.
  • Amber Covington, Acting Executive Director, Greater Memphis Workforce Development Board.
  • Dee Wallace, Senior Fellow, The Aspen Institute.

After our panel concludes at 2:45 p.m. EST, we’ll welcome all guests — both speakers and attendees — into the Café for an additional 15 minutes of informal discussion.

This is the fourth in a series of five conversations with our partners in local Workforce Leadership Academies. Stay tuned and learn more at as.pn/WLAcafe.

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About the Workforce Leadership Café

To optimize local workforce systems, practitioners must dismantle silos and create coherent systems and services that balance the needs of both workers and businesses. In our Workforce Leadership Café discussion series, we explore how the workforce development field can be more reflective of the change it seeks to cultivate, hosting conversations with leaders who are contributing their talents and insights to this rich field of practice. Guests include sponsors of local Workforce Leadership Academies and others who are exploring talent development and job quality in workforce development. Learn more at as.pn/WLAcafe

About the Workforce Leadership Academies

The Aspen Institute’s Workforce Leadership Academies, part of the Economic Opportunities Program, bring together leaders across the many siloed fields of practice, organization types, and government policies that make up the field. The Academies strengthen Fellows’ capacity to develop and sustain effective workforce strategies, collaborate more deeply with employers, and expand the number and quality of leaders who advance opportunities for low-wage workers and job seekers as they meet employers’ talent development needs.

About the Economic Opportunities Program

The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program advances strategies, policies, and ideas to help low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy.

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