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Patty Alper

Maryand, United States

Patty Alper is president of the Alper portfolio Group, a marketing and consulting company. She is also a prominent speaker and the author of Teach to Work: How a Mentor, a Mentee, and a Project can Close the Skills Gap in America. Patty’s 35-year career in business, coupled with two decades of hands-on experience working directly with youth, uniquely qualifies her to understand the growing skills gap from both perspectives: the employers who seek to build a pipeline and hire better-prepared youth for twenty-first century jobs, and the youth who are often ill-equipped or ill-trained to enter the new workforce.

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Innovation 30.04
Culture 30.02
Future of Work 30.03
Entrepreneurship 30.07
Careers 30.18

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Science and Project-Based Mentoring in Gibraltar, Michigan
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February 07, 2019
A few months ago, I reached out to Dixon Butler, the founder and president of Youth Learning As Citizen Environmental Scientists (“YLACES”), to hear what some of his experiences have been as a lifelong advocate for youth mentoring and project-based mentoring. Dr. Butler has an incredible lifetime of achievements, not the least of which includes obtaining two degrees from Harvard University and two degrees from Rice University, managing several departments during his tenure at NASA, and serving under Vice President Al Gore to promote international K-12 environmental science education. Now that he is retired from federal service, he actively advises others while managing Butler Consulting and YLACES.

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Tags: Innovation, Education

What Are Business Leaders Saying about Education Today?
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September 28, 2017
I am often asked what corporations and employers are saying about today’s educational landscape. With personal experience running my own business, being a consultant to others, sitting on philanthropic boards beside corporate executives, and leading a youth mentorship program in schools, I have collected a wealth of data on business perspectives. But, delving deeper, unearthing relevant research, and conducting pointed interviews with corporate social responsibility executives for my book, Teach to Work, has brought me to new conclusions about business viewpoints on education in the 21st century.

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Tags: Culture, Future of Work, Education

Do you want to pass on your wisdom? Read this interview and see why I cherished the opportunity.
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June 12, 2017
Many of you know I wrote a book that released just two months ago, entitled Teach to Work: How a Mentor, a Mentee, and a Project Can Close the Skills Gap in America. I spent years writing this book, after spending decades as an entrepreneur and mentor.

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Tags: Entrepreneurship

The Tricky Task of Matching Jobless Americans with High Quality Careers
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March 03, 2017
There are several narratives at play concurrently: One, where a population of unemployed, and underemployed adults cannot find well-paying jobs because they have been transported overseas, or reduced by automation – and a conflicting story from employers, who have a hard time finding workers to fill skilled jobs! As quoted by a 2015 report from the Manufacturers Institute, “7 in 10 manufacturing executives are faced with workers with inadequate tech skills… as well, a high proportion of existing skilled workers are nearing retirement — which means a bigger gap is looming. By 2025, the report claimed 2 million jobs will be going unfilled.”

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Tags: Future of Work, Careers

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