Work In Progress
The nature of work is changing rapidly and dramatically. Advances in technology are eliminating some jobs, transforming others, and, in some cases, creating jobs we never even imagined. In WorkingNation’s weekly podcast Work in Progress, we speak with leaders in business, education, government, and nonprofits about what’s being done to train and reskill American men and women to ensure they can compete for, and qualify for, good-paying, in-demand jobs today and in the future. Work in Progress is hosted by WorkingNation Editor-in-Chief Ramona Schindelheim. Produced by Larry Buhl. Our Executive Producers for WorkingNation are Ramona Schindelheim, Joan Lynch, and Melissa Panzer. WorkingNation is a nonprofit media and content company reporting on the future of work and workers through original videos, articles, live events, and, of course, podcasts.
Episodes
May 23, 2023 • 21 mins
In this episode of Work in Progress, I am joined by Jean C. Accius, PhD, the president and CEO of CHC: Creating Healthier Communities, to discuss the link between employment and mental and physical health.
For nearly 70 years, CHC has been on the front lines of working with businesses, nonprofits, government, and communities to address the barriers to health and longevity. Earlier this year, Accius joined the organization after ...
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In this episode of the Work in Progress podcast, we're talking artificial intelligence and education with Rohit Sharma of ETS and John Fillmore of Chegg.
For the past few months, we've been hearing that artificial intelligence and machine learning could transform nearly every job on the planet. With the introduction and popularity of ChatGPT, it feels like that transformation might be coming very quickly – some think it might be...
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May 9, 2023 • 25 mins
In this episode of the Work in Progress podcast, I'm joined by Zoe Peterson-Ward, the chief customer officer of Workhuman, and Beverly Jones, host of Jazzed About Work podcast and author of Find Your Happy at Work.
How do people thrive in the workplace? Of course, a good-paying job and job security are import. Experts say employees also need meaningful work, a sense of purpose, and a sense of being valued and recognized by their...
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May 3, 2023 • 20 mins
In this episode of Work in Progress, Moroni Benally of Aspire Ability and Amber Garrison Duncan of C-BEN join me to discuss the just-announced workforce initiative, the Navajo Nation Talent Marketplace, which will be the first-ever repository of all jobs available on the Navajo reservation and the skills needed to fill them.
The Navajo Nation covers a lot of territory – nearly 27,000 square miles in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah...
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April 25, 2023 • 11 mins
In this episode of Work in Progress, I am joined by Vilas Dhar, the president of The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, $1.5 billion philanthropy advancing AI and data solutions to create a thriving, equitable, and sustainable future for all.
Advances in artificial intelligence are moving faster than our ability to comprehend their implications. Will these technologies enable inclusion and access to opportunity for workers and comm...
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April 18, 2023 • 18 mins
In this episode of Work in Progress, Ida Rademacher, vice president at the Aspen Institute, joins me from the Global Inclusive Growth Summit in Washington, DC, hosted by the Aspen Institute and The MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth.
Leaders from business, government, philanthropy, and nonprofits gathered at the Summit to discuss an important issue: How do we ensure that everyone has equal access to the opportunities created...
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April 4, 2023 • 55 mins
In this Work in Progress episode, we bring you our final WorkingNation panel from the SXSW EDU 2023 conference last month in Austin.
Companies increasingly understand the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, in the workplace. Now, the principle of DEI has expanded to DEIA, including accessibility for people with disabilities. That’s important because people with physical or neurological disabilities suffer une...
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March 28, 2023 • 30 mins
In this Work in Progress podcast, we take a look at obstacles workers 55 and older face in today's labor market.
The reality is that older adults do face discrimination in society and the workforce. Older workers – particularly older women of color – have been shut out of job opportunities and, as a result, live with increased economic uncertainty.
We need to start changing the narrative around how we look at these workers. ...
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March 21, 2023 • 59 mins
In this episode of the Work in Progress podcast, we return to Austin to bring you another panel from the SXSW EDU conference earlier this month.
Today, 65% of jobs require some education beyond high school. In the U.S., 62% of working-age adults do not have a degree. Together, these numbers illustrate why we have a skills gap; we need to help more Americans upskill to find sustainable employment.
This demands coordination ...
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March 14, 2023 • 55 mins
In this episode of the Work in Progress podcast from SXSW EDU in Austin, I am joined by Patti Constantakis of Walmart.org, Bridgette Gray of Opportunity@Work, and Kenny Nguyen of ThreeSixtyEight in a discussion about how to create better access to good jobs for people without a bachelor's degree.
A four-year college degree can be a ticket to a good job and a great career, but it's not for everyone. In fact, it's not for most wo...
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February 28, 2023 • 14 mins
Last month, I attended the annual Consumer Electronic Show, CES in Las Vegas, and there I met innovators with tech solutions for workforce challenges, including Stephen Bailey. He's the co-founder and CEO of ExecOnline and my guest on this week's Work in Progress podcast.
ExecOnline is a leadership development platform that uses technology to democratize how companies build their talent and grow careers. Forbes magazine named th...
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February 21, 2023 • 17 mins
In this episode of Work in Progress, Guild Education's Terrence Cummings joins me to discuss his new role as the company's chief opportunity officer.
A lot of this work has been underway at Guild for some time with Cummings leading the way for the last few years, he explains. It's now being more formalized and elevated with the new leadership role.
Cummings will be working to ensure tangible and meaningful outcomes such as p...
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February 16, 2023 • 18 mins
My guest on this week's Work in Progress podcast is Bárbara Gómez, Ph.D., the associate director of the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI). Dr. Gómez joins me to discuss the eighth annual State of Latino Entrepreneurship (SOLE) report released this morning.
Gómez is one of the principal investigators of the new SLEI report which shows that Latino-owned businesses (LOBs) continue to outpace the growth rates of whi...
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February 7, 2023 • 12 mins
My guest this week on the Work in Progress podcast is Mike May, who holds the title of chief evangelist at GoodMaps, a tech company helping the visually impaired navigate large venues such as convention centers, universities, hotels, and rail stations.
"We take the outdoor navigation that everybody's used to and turn it into turn-by-turn navigation with GPS indoors. We do outdoors, but for most people, you lose your route and yo...
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Lumina Foundation has long advocated for the goal of 60% of Americans earning college degrees or other high-quality credentials beyond high school by 2025. In this episode of Work in Progress, Courtney Brown, vice president of strategic impact and planning for Lumina Foundation, joins me with an update on the nation's progress toward that goal.
"We advocate for learning beyond high school. We talk about high-quality learning and...
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January 24, 2023 • 19 mins
In this episode of Work in Progress, Jennifer Goldsack, CEO of the Digital Medicine Society, joins me from CES 2023 earlier this month to discuss how technology is changing the skills needed in one of the most in-demand industries: health care.
From nurses accessing digital medical records to checkups via Zoom to interpreting flows and streams of data, nearly everyone who's recently received health care has been touched by digit...
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January 17, 2023 • 11 mins
For this episode of Work in Progress, I headed to Las Vegas for CES 2023, the huge Consumer Electronics Show.
As usual, there were thousands of cool new consumer products on display, including a wireless OLED TV at the LG booth, all kinds of at-home health care products, and a robot that was roaming the showroom floor apparently on its own.
That was all very interesting, of course, but I was mostly there to talk to business a...
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January 10, 2023 • 23 mins
In this episode of the Work in Progress podcast, I'm joined by Maureen Conway, Aspen Institute VP and Executive Director of the Institute's Economic Opportunities Program to discuss what makes a job a good job.
The Aspen Institute's Economic Opportunities Program is focused on policies, strategies, and ideas that help people across the county build better livelihoods and better lives. One of the primary areas it focuses on is ho...
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January 3, 2023 • 20 mins
In this episode of Work in Progress, Gary Shapiro, president & CEO of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), joins me to talk about the world’s biggest tech event – the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023 – underway this week in Las Vegas.
More than 100-thousand people are expected at CES to get a look at what’s ahead for us in 2023 and beyond from more than 1,000 exhibitors.
"What we're going to see is the growth of so...
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December 20, 2022 • 21 mins
In this episode of Work of Progress, Dr. Jill Buban, general manager and VP of EdAssist by Bright Horizons, joins me to discuss the impact of employer-offered education benefits on closing the labor shortages in health care and other industries.
Industry experts have been sounding the alarm about the staffing shortages in health care for decades, and that shortage has evolved into a crisis following COVID, particularly in nursin...
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