Selected Examples:• Co-designed and co-leading InnoVuntu, showcasing a whole systems approach to food security issues in Zambia and surrounding nations• Developing partner relationships with key funders to address complex systems challenges

Selected examples:• Developed corporate partnerships for USAID’s Global Development Alliance. Resulted in formation of several new corporate relationships with USAID (Dexis/USAID)• Designed and facilitated national multi-stakeholder dialogs on creating an effective youth employment system for the InterAmerican Development Bank in Honduras, Mexico, and the Bahamas. (IaDB)• Researched and wrote background chapter for the ILO/ADB publication: ASEAN Community 2015: Enhancing competitiveness and employability through skill development. Resulted in the publication of a guide for ASEAN member states (ILO/ADB)• For UNESCO, developed global data base, analyzed 140 employer reports, and conducted in-person interviews to document skills gaps of university graduates in various regions of the world. Produced case studies on employer mismatch in Egypt, India, Brazil, and U.S. Published on UNESCO website• For ILO Geneva, analyzed, interviewed employers, policymakers, and educators to produce a comparison study of how three German companies built a dual apprenticeship program in the U.S. Published on the ILO website and presented findings to U.S. Departments of Labor and Education (ILO)

Selected Examples:• Co-Founder and Co-led “Future Workforce Now:” Reimagining Workforce Policy for the Age of Technology Disruptions” – a partnership with the National Governors Association, 26 US States, MIT’s Fab Foundation and FHI360. To date 14 States have drafted new legislation and 10 have introduced new laws. (Gates, Schmidt, and Siegel Foundations, 2020)• Conducted rapid workforce assessments and trainings in Tunisia, Afghanistan, African Union, Jordan, Egypt, Kyrgyztan, Guatemala, Senior Advisor, USAID Workforce Connections Program. Assessments resulted in new workforce or youth employment projects in many of the countries (USAID, IaDB, ADB)• As one of 5 winners for an FHI 360 Innovation Award, analyzed and produced a study on how young people learn 21st Century skills at MIT’s Fab labs at a U.S. Community College in Dayton, OH, Nairobi University, a South African township, and a STEM high school for girls in Cairo. (FHI 360)

Selected Examples:• Designed and co-facilitated learning journeys with 10 member companies to identify internal and external barriers to new opportunities that benefit the company, consumers and society in low-income countries • Designed and conducted global staff training programs. Analyzed organization-wide programs on how companies can recruit, retain, and train their workforce, resulting in a knowledge map for the organization• Conducted study for World Bank on relationship between national workforce policies and Nike’s benchmark approach to measuring corporate socially responsible practices

Selected Examples:• Worked with Microsoft, First Data and Whirlpool Corporations, designed and developed a program for helping corporate strategy leaders with Base of the Pyramid strategies. Resulted in significant changes in corporate strategies and practices • For InterAmerican Development Bank, co-led 3-country study comparing how secondary level math and science requirements in Costa Rica, Honduras and Brazil compared to those in Sweden• For the State of North Carolina, analyzed how workforce entry-level requirements in 6 hi-growth industry sectors compared to related courses in higher education. Study was used for legislative purposes

Selected Examples:• Founded and directed a Center for workforce development and raised funding for projects that included developing national skills standards for entry into bioscience industry. Produced employer and educator guides to eliminate mismatch between skills learned and skills required (USDOE and USDOL)• Co-developed USAID’s foundational 20- country study on what works in youth employment. Resulted in USAID obtaining Congressional approval to invest in workforce development programs• Co-developed USAID’s first rapid workforce assessment protocol, trained teams and led multiple workforce assessment, trainings, and development projects. Raised $11 Million of soft money, grew a staff of 13 and co-wrote winning proposal for a global $34M workforce development program (USAID)• Designed and co-directed world’s first major empirical study on how informal learning occurs in small, medium and large workplaces. Called “the Teaching Firm,” the study analyzed how, what, and why front-line workers in major corporations (Boeing, Motorola, Siemens and 3 SME companies) in six U.S. states acquired 33 key competencies by participating in 13 different workplace activities such as teams, mentoring, meetings, supervising, research, hallway conversations, shift changing). Study featured in WSJ, LA Times, NPR, and Training Magazine (Pew Charitable Trusts and Workforce Boards of six U.S. states)