Summary: Co-host Rick Stephens and I bring our listeners conversations with stakeholder leaders, digging deeper and deeper into the challenges and opportunities in developing the pipelines that supply the workforce for our nation’s future. This program brings two special, previously recorded interviews with early Birth2Work supporters: Ed Rensi, former CEO of the McDonald’s Corporation, and Ian Wigston, founder of Thoughtforge, a UK-based company created to help business clients effectively achieve dramatic, sustainable shifts in performance. My interview with Mr. Rensi and Rick’s interview with Mr. Wigston, are seminal examples of leaders with vast business experiences on a global level, with years behind them at the helm of their respective companies, and fairly recent personal “Uh Oh!” moments when each realized the workforce needed for tomorrow wasn’t being created today. Though physically thousands of miles from each other and unknown to each other personally, through their connections with Birth2Work —reading our White Paper and our book, "The System: Igniting the Soul of Commerce" —the two are in striking agreement on the necessary action steps for business and communities going forward. If you haven’t taken the opportunity to read the Birth2Work White Paper, might I suggest you print it and take it with you at lunch today? Please don’t hesitate, ever, to engage with us. Email us at info@birth2work.org and let us know what you think, offer suggestions, and ask questions. Spend 20 minutes with this definitive paper of our organization. It has already traveled around the world in the hands of stakeholder leaders from 3 continents and 11 countries. I promise you will be inspired by the Birth2Work process, introduced in the paper, for helping leaders bring a community together to create capable people for the future. - Elane V. Scott www.Birth2Work.org
