Latest Future of education Podcast Episodes
Aquilina Versoza, Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California: Could Worker Co-ops Transform the In-Home Care Workforce?
Futuro Health - June 26, 2024 14:58 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur exploration of solutions for growing and strengthening the direct care workforce continues on this episode of WorkforceRx with a close look at a potentially transformative employee-owned cooperative model that’s gaining traction in California. In the eyes of our guest, Aquilina Soriano Versoz...
Anson Green, Senior Manager of Digital and Automation Upskilling at Tyson Foods: AI-Powered Tools Are Transforming Worker Training
Futuro Health - June 12, 2024 14:10 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings“I think training is gonna be so different looking in the next few years than what we're used to,” says Anson Green who brings a very seasoned eye to the workforce training landscape. After decades working in adult education, Green is now helping Tyson Foods train an incredibly diverse global wo...
Rachel Wick, Blue Shield of California Foundation: Respecting the Work That Makes All Other Work Possible
Futuro Health - May 30, 2024 13:58 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings“I'm able to be here with you today because my son is at a wonderful childcare provider home,” says WorkforceRx guest, Rachel Wick, to illustrate how critical direct care workers are to our lives and economy. Wick, the senior program officer for Blue Shield of California Foundation, describes chi...
Renee DeSilva, CEO of The Health Management Academy: How Health System Leaders Are Tackling Workforce Challenges
Futuro Health - May 16, 2024 14:10 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIf you would love to know what’s on the minds of the leaders of the nation’s largest health systems as they tackle workforce challenges and a host of other issues, but don’t happen to have the time to talk to all 150 of them, then this episode of WorkforceRx is for you. The well-placed source su...
Wendi Safstrom, President of the SHRM Foundation: HR as a Driver of Social Change
Futuro Health - April 24, 2024 13:59 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsEvolving employee expectations for working conditions and years of a tight labor market have created steady challenges for human resources professionals. For a look at how those roles are evolving in response, and, to learn about current best practices, we turn today to Wendi Safstrom, president ...
Curtis Johnson, Senior Fellow at Education Evolving: It’s Time to Upend Current Models of Education
Futuro Health - April 11, 2024 15:07 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsFor those concerned about teacher burnout and retention issues in K-12 education, Curtis Johnson has seen an innovative model in action that could provide an answer: let teachers run the schools. Johnson, a veteran educator, policy analyst and author, says there are already several hundred such s...
David Jarrard, Chairman of Jarrard, Inc.: Keeping The Human Touch In The Age of Digital Communications
Futuro Health - March 27, 2024 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAs almost any employer can tell you, today’s workers have high expectations for compensation, the quality of their work experience, and the level of work-life balance. Today’s WorkforceRx guest, David Jarrard, would add one key item to that list: they also expect to have a voice when organization...
Karilyn Van Oosten, VP of Strategic Business Development at Unitek Learning: Partnering with Employers for Onsite Training
Futuro Health - February 28, 2024 15:18 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn the battle against declining enrollments and declining perceptions of value, higher education organizations need to be flexible and meet employers and students where they are, says today’s WorkforceRx guest Karilyn Van Oosten. Her company, Unitek Learning -- a provider of workforce solutions ...
Rick Brooks, Rhode Island’s Director of Healthcare Workforce Transformation: Creativity Born of Crisis
Futuro Health - February 14, 2024 14:10 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings“Because of the workforce shortages, there is more creativity and more willingness to be innovative, and I think we can make something out of this crisis,” says Rick Brooks, who has his hands full leading Rhode Island’s efforts to strengthen and grow the healthcare workforce. His optimism is base...
Dr. Sarita Mohanty, President & CEO of The SCAN Foundation: Collaborative Solutions to Support Aging Well
Futuro Health - January 31, 2024 17:01 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe growing crisis in homelessness across the US has understandably garnered a lot of news coverage and attention from policymakers, and today’s WorkforceRx guest wants to make sure one key facet of the problem is not overlooked as solutions are discussed. “There's a lot of over-representation of...
Paula Nickelson, Director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services: The Long and Short Game of Addressing Workforce Shortages
Futuro Health - January 17, 2024 15:07 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsState departments of health play a huge role in America's healthcare system, with responsibility for public health, licensure, public policy, and much more, so the workforce challenges they face have broad implications. “It will probably be twenty years before we really begin to bend the curve be...
Michael Horn, Co-Founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute: Bringing Disruptive Innovations to Education
Futuro Health - January 04, 2024 15:22 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings“If I looked at higher education writ large, as we've traditionally defined it, I'd say that the patient is sick right now,” says Michael Horn, a prominent national voice on reimagining education at both the K-12 and post-secondary levels. Horn sees a misalignment between education consumers who ...
Dr. Sriram Shamasunder, Co-Founder of HEAL: The Power of Perspective in Caring for the Underserved
Futuro Health - December 13, 2023 14:39 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDoctors who realize that creating a local jobs program can be as important to helping their patients as writing a prescription have the kind of broad perspective that today’s WorkforceRx guest wants all health providers to adopt. “I think that context is oftentimes lost on providers in medical sc...
Dr. David Ferreira, Provost of Charter Oak State College: Turning Employee Tuition Benefit On Its Head
Futuro Health - November 29, 2023 15:38 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAlthough most US employers offer some form of tuition assistance, it’s estimated that less than 5% of employees use the benefit. There are several reasons for this, but according to Dr. David Ferreira, provost of Charter Oak State College, paying the upfront cost of tuition is high on the list. “...
Lupe Alonzo-Diaz, Physicians for a Healthy California: The Doctor Shortage Is About More Than Numbers
Futuro Health - November 08, 2023 16:24 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsLike all states, California is facing a shortage of physicians -- in its case a gap of 10,500 by the end of the decade -- but today’s WorkforceRx guest says the definition of shortage needs to go beyond just numbers to include their practice location and cultural diversity. “Oftentimes, we don't ...
Laura Beeth, VP for Workforce Partnerships at Fairview Health Services: Tips for Reaching Untapped Labor Pools
Futuro Health - October 25, 2023 16:20 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn the struggle to fill ongoing gaps in healthcare staffing, the days of waiting for people to apply for openings are over, says human resources veteran Laura Beeth. “We're going out deeply into the communities, especially communities with high social determinants of health, and really working pa...
Rachel Korberg, Families and Workers Fund: A Once In A Generation Chance To Advance Economic Mobility
Futuro Health - October 11, 2023 15:46 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAccording to recent reports from the University of Massachusetts and the US Department of Energy, the Biden administration’s historic investments in infrastructure and combatting climate change are already having an impact on the job market and will continue to do so with some economists forecast...
Parvati Dev, CEO of SimTabs: When to Use Virtual Simulation in Healthcare Training
Futuro Health - September 27, 2023 15:51 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe use of simulation in healthcare training used to be confined to actors posing as patients and the use of medical mannequins. But the options have grown far beyond that to include 3D virtual reality, augmented reality, and game-based learning, among other approaches. On this episode of Workfor...
Carissa Moffat Miller, CEO of the Council of Chief State School Officers: Imagining a Modernized K-12 System
Futuro Health - September 13, 2023 15:54 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhile there’s little that matches the excitement a new school year brings, it’s tempered somewhat this year by the need to continue recovering from the many disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Learning loss, declining enrollments and increases in behavioral problems are just a few of the...
Tanya Harris, Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship: Fostering Collaboration to Improve Healthcare
Futuro Health - August 24, 2023 15:11 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings“Healthcare is just so large and complex and expensive. We've got to find better ways to reach across political divides, ideological disagreements and narrow, sector-based perspectives,” says Tanya Harris, who runs the Health Innovators Fellowship at the Aspen Institute which is designed to do ju...
Mardy Leathers, Executive Director of Apprenticeships for America: Reinvigorating a Proven Strategy for Workforce Development
Futuro Health - August 01, 2023 14:11 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThere’s an old solution for some of the toughest challenges facing today’s US labor market, including a lack of skilled workers, inequitable access to well-paying jobs and an aging workforce: apprenticeships. That’s according to our WorkforceRx guest, Dr. Mardy Leathers, executive director of App...
Troy Clark, President & CEO of the New Mexico Hospital Association: Growing Your Own Healthcare Workforce
Futuro Health - July 19, 2023 15:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWorsening staff shortages in healthcare are prompting some big shifts in how hospitals are approaching the issue, and New Mexico is a good case in point. As we learn from today’s WorkforceRx guest, Troy Clark, who runs the state’s hospital association, a traditionally competitive mindset is yiel...
Sameer Gadkaree, President & CEO of The Institute for College Access and Success: Creating Paths To Debt-Free College
Futuro Health - June 28, 2023 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings“We're asking students effectively to take a bet on themselves and what we have seen in recent years is the growing problem of debt that doesn't pay off for them,” says Sameer Gadkaree, President & CEO of The Institute for College Access and Success. Among the 44 million Americans affected, the ...
Matthew Rascoff, Vice Provost of Digital Education at Stanford University: EdTech Bright Spots for Collaborative Learning
Futuro Health - June 15, 2023 13:11 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhile it will be years before researchers can render a verdict on how the wholesale shift to online learning during COVID impacted student performance, it’s already clear that in higher education, post-pandemic use of education technology and positively attitudes about it have both increased. Re...
Paul Fain, Higher Education Journalist: Experiential Learning Gains Traction
Futuro Health - June 01, 2023 01:20 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings“I haven't really seen that much in my career as a journalist where California and Alabama are rowing in the same direction. I do think workforce development is that rare issue that cuts through some of the partisan noise,” says Paul Fain, a veteran observer of higher education and workforce trai...
Sandra Hernandez, CEO of California Health Care Foundation: Improving Access to Care Through Smart Workforce Strategies
Futuro Health - May 03, 2023 03:09 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhat’s the value of having health insurance if you can’t access care? That’s an increasingly pertinent question for states which have successfully expanded insurance eligibility in recent years but are struggling to meet the increasing demand for healthcare. Our guest today on WorkforceRx, Dr. ...
Allen Blue, Co-Founder of LinkedIn: Leveraging 900M Career Profiles for Employment Insights
Futuro Health - April 11, 2023 16:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIt’s safe to say that nearly everyone reading this has a profile on LinkedIn or, if not, has visited it to learn about someone else’s career history. The social media giant has 900 million registered members worldwide and has become an essential tool for employers, job seekers and entrepreneurs. ...
Mark Burns, Executive Director of Homebridge: Innovative Retention Strategies in Home Care
Futuro Health - March 29, 2023 00:04 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsMost home care workers are women of color working more than one job, struggling to afford childcare, and doing difficult work without any prospects for advancement. It’s no wonder, then, that it’s hard to find and retain workers for these critically needed positions. Making matters worse is a co...
Matt Sigelman, President of The Burning Glass Institute: Connecting Skills to Opportunity
Futuro Health - March 15, 2023 00:52 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings“One of the things we’ve found is that the average U.S. job has seen 37% of its skills replaced in just the last five years,” says Matt Sigelman, one of the country’s leading labor market experts. That blistering pace of change begs the question of how workers and employers are going to acquire ...
Mark Milliron, President and CEO of National University: The Future Will Favor Flexible Educators
Futuro Health - March 01, 2023 02:05 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsFor those understandably concerned about the future of higher education, the optimism of today’s WorkforceRx guest Mark Milliron should serve as a salve. The new President and CEO of National University believes we’re entering an historic era of reinvention due to new tech and tools that foster i...
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