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Coronavirus Threatens Nonprofits

by Angela Olson

As policymakers respond to the coronavirus pandemic and its economic effects, they shouldn’t forget about the World’s nonprofits, which are on the front lines of caring for the World’s most vulnerable populations. In the U.S alone, nonprofits employ more than 12 mil...

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Building Successful University-Corporate Partnerships

by Private: Dr. Richard L. Irwin

Relationships between higher education and the corporate world have advanced, especially post-pandemic. At the University of Memphis, we have been fortunate to collaborate with great corporations including FedEx, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, the City of Memphis, and Nike. We have come a long way and, in the process, hav...

Learner Empowerment Through Inclusive and Accessible Practices

by Linda D. Bloomberg

Recent data indicates that a significant percentage of vulnerable students have been “lost” in the process of school closures over the past year, and that learning losses might be severe. Specifically, educational gaps between vulnerable groups and others have been exacerbated, generating higher dropouts and absenteeis...

The Importance of Understanding the Customer Experience in Higher Education

by Christina Dumeng

Conversely, what is lesser-known is what the CX holistically looks like for higher education administrators to understand where to improve the experience strategically. For this reason, having a comprehensive understanding of the voice of the customer (VOC) is paramount as it provides invaluable insights into their needs a...

The Future of Internships

by Michael True

Predicting the future can, at times, be a simple extrapolation of current systems, products, and processes. However, the future can quickly change our world in ways we never imagined. It forces us to re-imagine what we knew previously. The impact of the COVID-19 virus is an example. Future scenarios can also be seen by cert...

Leaders, Unite! The Best Advice for Supporting Talent in the Time of Covid-19123

Millions of college students' lives have been disrupted in unprecedented ways. Covid-19, which at first seemed to so many as a minor annoyance, has evolved into a global pandemic that has challenged every assumption, expectation, and hope we had for the world around us. How we live, study, work...

Enough! Social Justice Is Under Attack, and Not Leading in This Moment Is Complicity

Enough! ¡Basta! Human dignity and human rights cannot be forsaken. Life, health, freedom, family, and culture are non-negotiables of our humanity. Privilege and its fearful protectionism cannot prevail. It is not time to aspire or wish for a better reality; it is time to make i...

Regional Talent Roundtable in Toronto

More than 60 Canadian talent leaders from the corporate, educational and governmental sectors came together for Future Talent Council's Regional Talent Roundtable event, at York University in Toronto on January 23. Th...

Video: Future Talent Summit 2019

June 18-19, 2019, more than 150 delegates from 32 different countries, representing 52 companies, 39 universities, and 13 governments, came together at Tate Modern in London, to share ideas and best practices to set the future direction and agenda for talent strategies and policies.

There has never been a more important time for employers, educators, and policymakers to come together and collaborate. The most successful organizations will be the ones in which everyone, on every team, understands that all bets are off and everything is changing – and thinks that’s great. That is the mentality and culture that we here, at Future Talent Council, needs to work to enable

Patty McCord
CHRO, Netflix (1998-2012)

Future Talent Council is a unique opportunity to bring together strategic visionaries across industries. This group will begin to work towards partnerships that will help mold the next generation of global workers

Jeanine Dames
Yale University

It is imperative that we shape the future skills of our workforce and innovating, transforming and supporting an ecosystem like Future Talent Council, will give light to how collaboration between industry, academia and government can shape a bright future

Colette Lacroix
IBM

An excellent mix of leaders, representing organizations across the world, who are all willing to share their experiences. This openness of the members is a real strength, enabling Future Talent Council and all members to gain clear insight into the current challenges and how they are being addressed from a global perspective

Gillian Knight
Aston University

Now, more than ever, dialogue supported by the Future Talent Council across government, industry and higher education is critical in positioning workers for the transforming global economy

Andrew Gaudes
Goodman School of Business

Being a member of the Future Talent Council is an opportunity to share the needs of a global organization to help influence how higher education evolve their academics to meet the business needs in the future

Karen Powell
IQVIA

I am honoured in participating in the Future Talent Council, an international and high-qualified ecosystem. It has been invigorating to perceive that our problems are not that different and still we have so much to learn from each other. I have been taking in a great deal from the various sessions

Carolina Quixadá
Unifor

I am honored to be part of the important global community convened by the Future Talent Council. I believe the most exciting innovative approaches to higher education will happen through global engagement, not national silos

Marianna Savocca
Stony Brook University

Education, and in particular business education, is a global challenge with global implications. Future Talent Council offers a unique opportunity to discuss and debate relevant issues affecting individuals, organizations, and society from a multicultural perspective

Jordi Díaz
EADA Business School Barcelona