Leaders to Explore the Future of the Workforce

11/16/2020

Contacts for media: Christine Gillette, 978-758-4664, Christine_Gillette@uml.edu and Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944 or Nancy_Cicco@uml.edu

LOWELL, Mass. – “The Future of the Workforce,” a free, virtual event presented by the UMass Lowell Women’s Leadership Conference next month will explore how the changing business landscape is reshaping on-the-job experiences, career choices and paths.

Robin Jones, principal and national workforce and organizational transformation leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP, will headline the session with Elizabeth Altman, assistant professor of management in UMass Lowell’s Manning School of Business, whose expertise includes platform and ecosystem-based businesses, strategy, innovation, leadership and organizational change.

Uniting, inspiring and informing professionals across diverse fields, “The Future of the Workforce” will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 8 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Members of the public who would like to attend should register at www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-leadership-conversation-the-future-of-the-workforce-tickets-126257183635.

The session, one of UMass Lowell’s Women’s Leadership Conversations, builds upon the success of the UMass Lowell Women’s Leadership Conference presented annually by the university. That event brings together hundreds of professionals in business, government and the nonprofit sector to learn from an array of speakers and panel sessions, participate in interactive workshops, and join networking events to share best practices, challenges and opportunities.

“Whether we work full time, part time, for large or small organizations, for others or ourselves, the workforce and what it means to work are shifting in profound ways. ‘The Future of the Workforce’ will explore how our professional lives are changing, the new technologies that are reshaping what we do, and how education and cultural trends are influencing this evolution. We look forward to having the public join us for a lively, interactive discussion,” Altman said.

Jones is the latest business executive to headline a UMass Lowell Women’s Leadership event, which have featured leaders from Coca-Cola, IBM Corp., and Scholastic Inc., along with dozens of other professionals in the creative arts, technology, education, finance, government, health care, human resources, human services, legal and retail sectors.

The Women’s Leadership Conference was founded in 2015 by UMass Lowell Chancellor Jacquie Moloney, the first woman to lead the university in its history and one of the inaugural recipients of the “Women Who Mean Business” honor from the Boston Business Journal. UMass Lowell is ranked No. 12 – and for the fourth consecutive year the highest-ranked educational institution – in the Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts by the Boston Globe Magazine and The Commonwealth Institute.

The university is also home to the Center for Women and Work, an innovative research collaborative that seeks remedies for gender-based inequality in the workforce through education and promoting change. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the center’s Making WAVES (Women Academics Valued and Engaged in STEM) initiative is establishing innovative approaches to increasing the diversity of faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields at higher-education institutions across the country.

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