We have entered “the greatest transformation human civilization has ever known” according to the World Economic Forum. This Fourth Industrial Revolution is eliminating millions of jobs while simultaneously creating millions of new […]
The Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries created a cultural shift from rural farms to factory-filled cities. Imagine the confusion of parents, trained in agricultural livelihoods, trying to understand this […]
I never thought I’d be in the restaurant business: it’s risky, I don’t like to cook, and I know very little about the industry. But I believe in investing in people […]
For most of my years as a parent, I subscribed to the college-for-all mantra like the rest of my generation. I saw it as a basic degree needed to operate in […]
When my children were young, I used to read to them from The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett. We loved all the fables and parables but there was one story […]
Listening to the stories of students who feel unworthy because they can’t or don’t want to go to college is heartbreaking. Equally distressing are the ones who come home without completing a […]
“Robots Are Taking Over Everything!” Headlines like this create fear and insecurity about the future, especially in the job market, and lead us to question our children’s potential for success. While it […]
There are signs the pendulum is swinging back to its center point. Studies show that millennials choose work-life balance as their top priority, even if that means taking a lower salary to […]
We all want to belong. It is a fundamental human need. Children desire first to fit in with their families and communities, then with their friends as they move into adolescence. Families, […]
Take a dramatically changing economy, add high demand for specialized skills to a low supply of workers with those skills and what do you get? The creation of new pathways, designed to […]
