Webinar: WorkforceSight Summit 2020 by South Central Workforce Development Board

About This Summit

REGISTER NOW FOR FULL FREE ACCESS! On October 20, 2020, the South Central Workforce Development Board hosted its 3rd Annual Workforce Summit and for the first time, it was completely virtual. The 2020 “WorkforceSight” Summit focused on a wide variety of innovative practices in the workforce and the ever-expanding alternative of “going virtual”, whether it be interviews, meetings or even hiring events.

The WorkforceSight Summit is designed to be interactive, engaging, and unique. If you're an employer in south central Kentucky, you'll not want to miss this event!

ALL SESSIONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON DEMAND--REGISTER ONE TIME AND THEN WATCH ANY/ALL AT YOUR CONVENIENCE

Welcome to the Summit!

Meet the Presenters

Nicholas Wyman

CEO IWSI Group

Nicholas Wyman for the past 25 years has shone a light on the mismatch between employers seeking qualified staff yet the hordes of people who remain unemployed. Nick's advocated for and created solutions on workforce issues of the 21st Century. He is an international expert, particularly zeroing in on Apprenticeship and CTE education and training models in the US, UK, Germany, Switzerland and Australia.

He taps out opinion pieces for Forbes, Quartz and Fortune, makes appearances on National Public Radio, he has notched top education writer on LinkedIn globally and recognised for his leadership in education in Boss Magazine awards. He wrote the international award-winning book, Job U. Nick holds an MBA, has studied at Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government plus is a Winston Churchill Fellow. He’s a third-generation writer, who started his own career earning a trade in commercial cookery, was awarded Australian Apprentice of the Year in 1988 and captaining Australia’s gold-medal-winning Culinary Youth Team before becoming a chef specializing in fish at the London Ritz Hotel.
Sam Ford

Director of Cultural Intelligence, Tiller Press, Simon and Schuster, a ViacomCBS Company

Sam Ford's focus is on how organizations are listening to, developing relationships with, telling stories to, and putting themselves in the shoes of the audiences they seek to reach. Over the years, his work has spanned from journalism, documentary, and civic engagement to fictional/entertainment media to marketing/communications/advertising/public relations. Currently, he is Director of Cultural Intelligence of Tiller Press at Simon & Schuster, a ViacomCBS Company.

Sam is also working on projects as a Knight News Innovation Fellow at Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, supporting various Future of Work initiatives in Kentucky in partnership with labs at MIT, USC, and elsewhere, and pursuing projects as a board member of both The Artisanal Economies Project and The Big Board.

He has consulted with a range of organizations on their storytelling and audience engagement strategies, and models supporting innovation. Also, in 2015-2016, Sam was VP, Innovation & Engagement, Univision's Fusion Media Group. Before that, he was a director at strategic communications firm Peppercomm and helped found and run the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium.

Sam is an affiliate of MIT's Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing. In that capacity, he researches, writes, and plans events focused on the activities people participate in surrounding popular culture content. He is co-author of the 2013 book "Spreadable Media," from NYU Press, which has been translated into seven additional languages and released in paperback in 2018. Sam has written about media, entertainment, journalism, and marketing for academic publications and for places like Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Inc., Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, and various other publications.

Sessions in this Summit

Welcome to the WorkforceSight 2020 Summit!
ON DEMAND: Best Practices Business Panel, Session I
ON DEMAND SESSION: Kentucky Career EDGE: The Future of Kentucky's Workforce with Micaela Alpers
ON DEMAND: Best Practices Business Panel, Session II
ON DEMAND SESSION: Apprenticeships: Their Critical Role in our Workforce Future with Nicholas Wyman
ON DEMAND: Why Your Business Must Be Data-Driven in Order to Succeed with Mark Fraser

International workforce strategist Mark Fraser explores the idea of being a data-driven business and why it is crucial for employers ... View more
ON DEMAND SESSION: Horses, Houses & Heat: The Rapid Growth of (and need for) Thermal Imaging with John Harnage
ON DEMAND SESSION: Innovations in Ky. Workforce: Breaking Down the Silos with Sam Ford
ON DEMAND SESSION: Culture and Coaching Amid COVID with Dr. Terry Daniels

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WorkforceSight Summit 2020

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