Skilled trades offer tremendous opportunity for women that have been trained for traditionally female jobs or outside with workforce altogether. The Hurricane Katrina recovery effort was so massive, it began to change cultural attitudes about construction and manufacturing jobs and who should be doing them.
Tres Roeder is a change agent. As both founder and president of Roeder Consulting and as a Shaker Heights City Councilman, he drives positive change in business, communities, and governments. Since graduating from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management with a Master's degree in Business Administration, he has authored two Amazon best-sellers, A Sixth Sense for Project Management and Managing Project Stakeholders.
It sounds counterintuitive, but by 2030, many of the world's largest economies will have more jobs than adult citizens to do those jobs. In this data-filled - and quite charming - talk, human resources expert Rainer Strack suggests that countries ought to look across borders for mobile and willing job seekers.