A. Elizabeth Bernhard Email & Phone Number

Statewide

The Manufacturing Growth Alliance (MGA) is a membership-based organization that provides services to help manufacturers build smart, lead strong, and establish a pathway for future growth. Our services drive solutions that will make manufacturing in Michigan the most competitive and prosperous in the nation.We serve all sectors of manufacturing, including.

• Led the statewide Partner Engagement Initiative, including the cultivation and growth of employer and postsecondary partnerships to ultimately meet their talent and student pipeline needs. Partnerships cultivated.
• Created strategic partnerships with industry associations to develop demand-driven training programs. One example is the “Construction Jobs Academy of Michigan,” created in partnership with the Michigan Infrastructure.
• Participated in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Talent Pipeline Management Academy to become highly competent in creating and leading employer collaboratives in support of their talent pipelines.
• Interview key stakeholders as part of the strategic planning process, including legislators and business and industry
• Provided strategic direction and training to statewide partners to ensure their increased success with partner and employer engagement.
• Supported the founding Executive Director in meetings with Michigan legislators, gubernatorial and state budge offices, to maintain and grow the state appropriation.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

• Created partnerships with business and industry to design and implement the Momentum technical training Academies, including the launch of Computer Numerical Control, Warehouse Management and Inventory Control, and.
• Cultivated and maintained both private and public grant and donor sources, including all grant writing, sufficient to fund Urban Alliance programming on a $2,200,000 annual budget.
• Developed strategic communication and marketing plans. Oversaw the development and distribution of five new logos, a new website, all collateral and program promotion materials.

• Facilitate the development and implementation of in-demand workforce training programs, based upon the garnering of regional feedback from business and industry partners. Such programs include the Phlebotomy Technician.
• Spearheaded the College’s partnership with Urban Alliance and the Momentum Urban Employment Initiative, a transformational course for marginalized individuals with significant barriers to employment. Lead all aspects.
• Establish and manage yearly budgets for six accounts.
• Create and oversee the execution of the college’s community “Life Enrichment” programs. In one year, nineteen innovative programs were successfully launched, with enrollment metrics met, across four campuses in the.
• Supervise two full-time employees, five long-term academy instructors and over 50 independent contract instructors.
• Represent the college and the Groves on internal and external committees pertaining to workforce development, community outreach and social justice.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

• Accomplishments:
• Researched and wrote the grant to be one of only seven institutions who applied for and received CAEL’s 2014 Jumpstart Program, with funding provided by the Lumina Foundation, for competency-based education and.
• Planned and developed the local initiative which brought the “Michigan Values Veterans” conference to Southwest Michigan, comprising over 40 employers in attendance, and presentations given by Congressman Fred Upton.
• Personally requested by the Michigan Community College Association to testify at the MI House Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs about the success of KVCC’s Veteran Services.
• Directed, planned and managed the execution of KVCC’s annual Veterans Resource Day, including marketing and promotion, recruiting over 60 external resources to attend, and the hiring of keynote speakers.
• A frequent speaker at conferences, such as MCCA’s Success Summit, the Consortium of Michigan Veterans Educators (CMVE) annual conference, the 2014 Veteran Symposium for Higher Education at the University of Louisville.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Relationship and Communication SeminarsAnti-racism and Inclusion WorkshopsPersonal, Relational, and Productivity Coaching

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Intercultural CommunicationGendered CommunicationInterpersonal Communication

Senior Executive High Impact CoachDiversity and Inclusion Presentations

Interpersonal Communication, with an emphasis on Privilege, Culture and Power

M. A., Communication

Honored as an "All-University Graduate Student Research Scholar" in 2009.

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