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Strengthening the Regional Talent Pipeline:
Aligning Business, Education and Public
Sector Leadership
Texas Workforce Conference
December 8, 2016
Houston, TX
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• Session’s Learning Objectives
• Identify current and near-future career
opportunities in the regional workforce pipeline
• Identify employability skills required of workers
entering the regional workforce pipeline
• Identify paths to employment in high wage high
demand careers
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• Session Presenters
• Dr. Allatia Harris, Vice Chancellor, Strategic
Initiatives, San Jacinto College
• Peter Beard, Senior Vice President, Regional
Workforce Development
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Houston Jobs
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• Houston’s Middle Skills Blueprint
• UPSKILL HOUSTON: The Region’s Blueprint to
build a quality regional workforce and talent
pipeline
– Key Industry sectors that drive Houston’s regional
economy
– Demand Driven—to meet the needs of employers
– Supply Quality—to help residents become aware of,
connect to training, and obtain good-paying jobs
– Collective action and impact to address the challenge
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• Regional Economic Drivers
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• Supply Chain Challenge
• Employer Leadership: Demand Driven
• Strengthen the Quality of Supply
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• Our Objectives
• Attract, Train and Place
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• No Single Solution
• The Regional/System Challenges Cannot be
Solved Alone:
• Address Awareness and Perception Challenges
• Improve the level of Employability Skills
• Coordinate and Align the work of multiple partners
that touch our various talent pipelines:
– Emerging Talent (our youth)
– Un- and Under-Employed adults
– Incumbent Talent
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• Collective Response
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• Key Learning #1
• Employer Leadership is Essential
– This goes beyond engagement
– Go to where Employer Leaders already meet
• Collective Mindset: We Share a Workforce
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• Construction Leadership
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• Petrochemical Leadership
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• Healthcare Leadership
• Identifying industry
leadership and the
employer table
• Exploring key pain points
for employers
• Apply learnings from our
previous work
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• Key Learning #2
• Foster Collective Seeing
– Connect Dots
• Facilitate Collective Learning:
– Help Partner Institutions Translate How
Employers Think
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• Key Learning #3
• Support Collective Doing
– Prototype efforts to address a
meaningful challenge and get into action
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• College Leadership
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• Community Leadership
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• Success Doesn’t Require a 4-year Degree