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You Better Know If You're a Workforce Developer or an Employee...
May 16, 2026
52m 16s
Let's get into it...Contract Training
Nov 2, 2025
1h 05m 59s
Myths and Real Partnerships Within Workforce Development
Sep 28, 2025
1h 11m 23s
Resilience, America's Talent Strategy, and ACTION.
Aug 31, 2025
1h 10m 46s
Fluffing the numbers?
Jun 11, 2025
34m 00s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 5/16/26 | You Better Know If You're a Workforce Developer or an Employee... | Send us Fan Mail Join me as I talk about what I think the difference is between an employee and a workforce developer; what it means to do workforce in 2026; and what I hope for you! | 52m 16s | ||||||
| 11/2/25 | Let's get into it...Contract Training | Send us Fan Mail In this episode I discuss realities of contract training in public workforce development from my perspective. | 1h 05m 59s | ||||||
| 9/28/25 | Myths and Real Partnerships Within Workforce Development | Send us Fan Mail In this episode of 'Scratching the Surface of Workforce Development,' I addresses the importance of moving past 'false professionalism' to foster genuine communication. I delve into various myths and truths about workforce development, including misconceptions about the role of the federal government, the necessity of both technical and soft skills, and the cultural reliance on four-year degrees as the primary path to success. I emphasize the critical role of community develo... | 1h 11m 23s | ||||||
| 8/31/25 | Resilience, America's Talent Strategy, and ACTION. | Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 3 of 'Scratching the Surface of Workforce Development.' Season 1 we learned how to do this, season 2 we survived life so it's definitely not my best work. But season 3? Season 3 is going to bring some real examples of things that are working. Stay tuned. This episode reflects on personal and professional challenges as I discuss the ups and downs of my life over the past few months, including significant family events while the world continued to ... | 1h 10m 46s | ||||||
| 6/11/25 | Fluffing the numbers? | Send us Fan Mail In this episode I describe how I wish we treated data and requests as workforce developers. How I wish funders could be realistic and not encourage the habit. And, in general, some of my pollyanna views of where I wish my industry could go... | 34m 00s | ||||||
| 2/9/25 | Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes | Send us Fan Mail Join me as I chat about all things current in workforce and the need to determine what needs to change. I discuss federal and state policy here and my viewpoints on where we are as a policy and a profession. Glad to be back after a long, unscheduled break! | 56m 12s | ||||||
| 9/29/24 | What I want for my profession. | Send us Fan Mail As I experience more and more, I continue to come back to some simple realities of things I hope for my profession, the one we rarely name-Workforce Development. Here I share some of these thoughts. | 55m 05s | ||||||
| 8/4/24 | Episode 11 Networking and Business Development in Workforce | Send us Fan Mail Workforce developers typically pride themselves on how much 'work' they do in a day. Their jobs require it. But, when do we network? When do we take the time to build relationships outside of those we are directly responsible to? Rarely in some cases. These relationships are critical for so many reasons. They're also vital to the business development process that's often overlooked for our obsession with checking boxes. In this episode I talk a little about networking s... | 38m 46s | ||||||
| 6/30/24 | Episode 10 - Constructing the Workforce | Send us Fan Mail There are critical occupations required to support most export industries. Where do they stand in your community? | 52m 31s | ||||||
| 5/19/24 | Episode 9: Nuts and Bolts of Workforce Training Organization Skills | Send us Fan Mail As the country depends more and more on 'workforce developers', I think there are critical skills that must be learned and employed to be successful at the local level. I share some of those here as I've heard from listeners that this content is what they're most interested in. Here you go! If you have other topics you'd like me to consider adding, please find me on LinkedIn and let's discuss! | 55m 08s | ||||||
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| 3/25/24 | Episode 8 - Training Does Not Equal Upskilling | Send us Fan Mail Join me this episode as I chat about the harsh realities of living in survival mode, antiquated workforce systems, robots, addiction, scarcity mentalities, hard decisions, hard conversations, and poor outcomes. Ultimately, workforce development is in a crossroads as it's become the sexy topic of the time period, but most still don't understand it. Our workforce is producing the skills it was designed to produce, at the rate it was designed to-we MUST do something ... | 1h 10m 33s | ||||||
| 2/9/24 |  Episode 7 - Ryan Miller from AccelerateMS | Send us Fan Mail Join as Ryan Miller and I discuss the work his office, AccelerateMS, is doing in Mississippi. This new office has a broad mandate and is working to secure Mississippi's future. | 34m 53s | ||||||
| 1/22/24 | Episode 6 - The Intersection of Workforce and Economic Development | Send us Fan Mail We are coming off a big win in Mississippi and as I sat in the Capitol watching the Legislators do their part of this, my brain went to work. Economic, Workforce, and Community Development intersect in many ways, and sometimes not at all. Remember, we just scratch the surface of topics! | 30m 19s | ||||||
| 1/6/24 |  Episode 5 - Matt Bogoshian from American Manufacturing Communities Collaborative | Send us Fan Mail This week, I have the pleasure of hosting Matt Bogoshian, Executive Director of the American Manufacturing Communities Collaborative. Matt is a leading policy expert and doing great things in the space of pulling varied groups of humans together to support manufacturing in America! Check out their website at https://americanmcc.org/ and I urge you to sign up for their weekly calls AND their newsletter. Some fantastic connection points! Note: Due to my editing cy... | 28m 19s | ||||||
| 12/11/23 |  Episode 4 - Special Guest Dr. Reuben Burch | Send us Fan Mail Join us as Reuben, Associate Vice President for Research at Mississippi State University (More here: https://www.research.msstate.edu/directory/rfb2) and I discuss all things workforce, our partnerships, and the work he and his university are doing to support manufacturing in Mississippi. | 56m 24s | ||||||
| 11/3/23 | Episode 3 - Where Do We Go From Here? | Send us Fan Mail We spend a lot of time in workforce development discussing deficiencies. Join me as I talk about how I believe we have to move forward as communities, regions, states, and, frankly, the country. We can only control our small portion of it but I do think there are ways to move forward and get big wins. | 34m 48s | ||||||
| 9/7/23 | Episode 2: What I Wish I Knew When Entering the Profession of "Workforce Development" | Send us Fan Mail Join me as I talk about a few of the things I wish I knew when I entered formal workforce development through a workforce training role. Do you have others you wish you knew? LET ME KNOW! | 36m 24s | ||||||
| 8/27/23 | Episode 1: Why Am I Doing This? | Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the introductory episode of Scratchin' The Surface of Workforce Development! Join me as I share my 'why' for even recording this and ultimately why I wanted to get a conversation going! | 17m 18s | ||||||
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