Webinar
Your community's talent pipeline has a gap
From Second Chances to First Opportunities
Your community's talent pipeline has a gap — and it starts long before anyone reaches a workforce board. This session gives K–12 leaders, workforce professionals, and employers a concrete framework for building cross-sector ecosystems that create opportunity upstream, before a crisis ever occurs.
Your community's talent pipeline has a gap
Your community's talent pipeline has a gap — and it starts long before anyone reaches a workforce board. This session gives K–12 leaders, workforce professionals, and employers a concrete framework for building cross-sector ecosystems that create opportunity upstream, before a crisis ever occurs.
Why You Should Register:
- Understand why prevention-first workforce systems consistently outperform crisis-response models in long-term outcomes.
- Identify the structural gaps — silos, misaligned metrics, weak employer relationships — that quietly break local ecosystems.
- Discover what early career exposure actually does to learner persistence, training completion, and post-placement retention.
- Apply a Partner Mapping framework to pinpoint who's missing from your ecosystem and how to bring them in.
- Reframe employer engagement from a charity ask into a co-designed talent partnership built on shared accountability.
- Learn which federal and state policy levers, including WIOA, Perkins V, and Second Chance Act programs, create real opportunities for cross-sector alignment right now.
Robert T. David Sr,
Kraig Kistinger
Nico Mulder
Kate Kimmer