WorkforceRx

WorkforceRx

There has never been a stronger need for workers to adapt. To keep up with the speed of change, we must be prepared to shift into new job roles and pick up new skills. Traditional approaches no longer suffice. Futuro Health CEO Van Ton-Quinlivan interviews leaders and innovators for insights into the future of work, future of care, future of higher education, and alternative education-to-work models. We will need to draw on our collectively ingenuity to uncover ways to develop work, workers, and economic opportunity.

Episodes

Kaitlin Lemoine and Julian Alssid, Partners At Work Forces: Moving Workforce Development to the Center of Education

January 28, 2026 • 25 mins
“There are persistent and critical gaps between education and industry that hinder economic advancement and we share a belief that those gaps need to be bridged,” says Julian Alssid, summing up why he and his business partner, Kaitlin Lemoine, created Work Forces, a consulting company that serves stakeholders in those sectors and beyond. On this episode of WorkforceRx, they join Futuro H...
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Professor Mitchell Stevens, Stanford University: Linking the Conversations About AI, Learning and Longevity

January 14, 2026 • 24 mins
We start the new year by bringing you a fresh perspective on key sources of concern for American society at large and the workforce development sector in particular: AI disruption in the workplace and education, and the many challenges presented by our rapidly aging population. For Professor Mitchell Stevens of the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, a shift from anxiety...
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Lisa Larson, CEO of Education Design Lab: How Micro-Pathways Can Boost Workforce Development Success

December 17, 2025 • 31 mins
According to recent studies, micro-credentials are experiencing a surge in interest and acceptance by learners and employers, which is creating both a challenge and an opportunity for educators trying to meet the demand for them. One of the major players helping educators in this task is the Education Design Lab, which is working with more than 100 community colleges and state community ...
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How to Unleash Your Inner Innovator: Dr. Tessa Forshaw and Richard Braden, Co-Authors of Innovation-ish

December 3, 2025 • 36 mins
“There are so many myths that we’re left brain, we’re right brain, we’re creative, we’re analytical, but none of that’s true. We’re all whole-brain humans and we all have the ability to be creative,” says cognitive scientist Dr. Tessa Forshaw, co-author, with design strategist and CEO Richard Braden, of the new book, Innovation-ish, which aims to demystify creativity and make it accessib...
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How Hospice Care Has Changed and Why It Matters: Fran Smith, Co-author of Changing the Way We Die

November 12, 2025 • 27 mins
Hospice care in the US has undergone major shifts in recent years, with a significant jump in usage and a 400% increase in private equity ownership as major factors driving it to become the most profitable subsector in healthcare, according to a 2023 RAND Corporation study. To understand these trends what they mean for healthcare workers, patients and families, we turn to Fran Smith, co-...
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Francie Genz, CEO of Formation: Workforce Collaboration Requires Checking Egos at the Door

October 29, 2025 • 32 mins
“If we can’t get the private sector to lean in and play the right roles, we’re going to miss the mark,” says Francie Genz, CEO of Formation, a national organization helping communities build resilient, industry-led workforce systems. In an episode packed with practical advice, Futuro Health CEO Van Ton-Quinlivan explores how Genz and her team are working to turn decades of fragmented emp...
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Dr. Thomas Tannou, Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal: Dementia Research is Informing New Approaches to Care

October 15, 2025 • 34 mins
Among the knotty issues that dementia forces on family caregivers is when to know if their loved one with the disorder is in need of in-home supports and ultimately, when moving to a skilled facility is warranted. Often making those decisions more difficult is a loss of self-awareness caused by the disease, which can lead to rejection of needed services. As geriatrician and dementia re...
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Dana Stephenson, Co-Founder and CEO of Riipen: How Colleges and Employers Can Scale Work-Based Learning

September 24, 2025 • 25 mins
Could earning a traditional undergraduate degree actually hurt your chances of getting hired? A 2024 survey from Hult International Business School suggests as much, reporting that 89% of companies avoid hiring recent graduates due to their lack of real-world work experiences. On today’s episode of WorkforceRx, we’re going to focus on closing the gap between what employers are seeking an...
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Kate Connor, PhD, Professor at Harry S. Truman College: The Magic Sauce of Working with Adult Learners

September 10, 2025 • 29 mins
“Community colleges play this really unique role because we balance this idea of a general education with integrating skills that get you ready for employment. Those things can dance together, and I think community colleges do that dance so beautifully,” says our WorkforceRx guest, Professor Kate Connor of Harry S. Truman College in Chicago. One example of that dance is integrating the l...
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Corinne Eldridge, President and CEO of the Center for Caregiver Advancement: Why In-Home Caregivers Need Training

August 27, 2025 • 26 mins
“Caregivers come to this work because they have a big heart, but having a big heart doesn't mean that they are prepared to do what is a both a mentally and physically taxing job,” says Corinne Eldridge, president and chief executive officer of the Center for Caregiver Advancement. That’s where CCA’s training programs come in, which have upskilled more than 70,000 in-home caregivers in ...
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Alfredo Mathew III, Founder and CEO of SPCC.1: Making the Jump From Wage Earner to Asset Owner

August 13, 2025 • 30 mins
One way to close the historically large and growing gap in income and wealth in America is for more wage earners to become business owners so they can start building assets. That’s a theory that our WorkforceRx guest, Alfredo Mathew III, has seen working in California using a state-supported community capital fund in under-invested communities. “The big opportunity is to help shift busin...
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Dr. Carole Bennett, VP of Talent Management and Development at Sutter Health: Fostering an “Every Day, Everywhere” Learning Culture

July 29, 2025 • 22 mins
“The pace of change is just so rapid right now and that requires people at all levels throughout the organization to be agile and to continue to learn and grow,” says Carole Bennett, vice president of Talent Management and Development at Sutter Health, a twenty-four hospital system serving Northern California. In addition to building an ‘every day, everywhere’ continuous learning culture...
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Jarmin Yeh, Institute for Health and Aging at University of California, San Francisco: Making the Future A Better Place to Grow Old

July 17, 2025 • 27 mins
Eleven thousand people turn sixty-five every day in the US, a pace which is continuing to intensify the challenges of providing adequate care for seniors. On this episode of WorkforceRx we're going to learn what this means for the quality of life of the elderly population -- especially for those with dementia and their caregivers -- from Jarmin Yeh, associate professor in the Institute ...
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Sabari Raja, Managing Partner of JFFVentures: Using Venture Capital to Boost  Workforce Training

June 18, 2025 • 29 mins
“The traditional workforce training system has really focused on a very rigid model that doesn't work for how technology has shifted and how demographics are shifting,” says Sabari Raja, who is trying to accelerate the availability of more flexible training models as managing partner of JFFVentures, an impact fund that was spun out of the forty year old workforce development nonprofit, J...
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Sam Schaeffer, CEO of the Center for Employment Opportunities: Keys to Building An Economic Future After Incarceration

June 4, 2025 • 31 mins
On this episode of WorkforceRx, we take a close look at a successful model for assisting a part of the U.S. workforce that faces more challenges than most others: formerly incarcerated individuals. Among the headwinds they face in the job market are social stigmas, legal barriers, and a lack of up-to-date skills, which explains an unemployment rate of over 27% for this population. Over t...
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Dr. Angela Jackson, Author of The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom Line Success

May 21, 2025 • 27 mins
While it’s customary for companies to claim that ‘people are our most important resource’, today’s WorkforceRx guest, Dr. Angela Jackson, knows that amounts to lip service at many firms. In her new book The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom Line Success, Dr. Jackson shares what it looks like when a company walks the talk. In researching 1,700 companies for the book,...
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Ned Scott Laff and Scott Carlson: Authors of Hacking College: Why the Major Doesn't Matter and What Really Does

May 7, 2025 • 40 mins
Too many students go through college focused on fulfilling course requirements for their major with insufficient attention to their actual personal and career interests. The result is they earn empty college degrees that are not connected to the life that comes after graduation. Those provocative conclusions come from a new book called Hacking College: Why the Major Doesn't Matter and Wh...
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Dr. Patricia Cuff, National Academies of Sciences Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education: Fostering a Multidisciplinary Approach to Improving Healthcare

April 23, 2025 • 32 mins
There’s a growing consensus that the best patient care is delivered by multidisciplinary teams, but as you’ll hear on this episode of WorkforceRx, generating solutions to problems facing healthcare and medical education can benefit from the same interprofessional approach. That’s what our guest, Dr. Patricia Cuff, has learned leading the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional ...
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Carlina Hansen, Senior Program Officer at California Health Care Foundation: Amplifying the Role of Community-Connected Health Workers

April 9, 2025 • 24 mins
States are often described as laboratories for public policy development on major issues, generating new best practices that can spread to other states and influence federal action. As an acknowledged leader in working to improve healthcare access and quality, California’s innovations in this area are closely watched, including the unusual step it took in the last few years to allow non-...
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Missy Hopson, PhD, Chief Learning and Workforce Development Officer at Ochsner Health: Retention through Moving Them Up

March 26, 2025 • 29 mins
Persistent labor shortages have spurred some healthcare systems to take a “grow-your-own” approach that involves upskilling current employees to supplement external recruitment. Today on WorkforceRx, we’re going to learn about an innovator in this area, Ochsner Health System in Louisiana, which uses coaches, apprenticeships, and flexible pathways to help advance its employee’s skills and...
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