WorkforceRx: Agile and Inclusive Strategies for Employers, Educators and Workers in Unsettled Times

Right People, Right Skills, Right Time -- "This is the future of work"

WorkforceRX is a collection of proven workforce development strategies refined for the private, public, education, and nonprofit sectors--a playbook for connecting work and workers with training in an uncertain economy.

Who will benefit from this book? Industry leaders, educational leaders, economic and workforce development practitioners, elected officials and public policy makers, foundation officers, and citizens who care about their community. Everyone can take action to form an ecosystem of the willing and approach the future of work with a new and agile mindset.

Use this playbook for the future of work--

• If you need skilled workers but can't find them
• If you want partnerships that move at the speed of need
• If you want to connect well-trained students to the right jobs right now
• If you want to grow an inclusive workforce from within
• If you want social and economic mobility by connecting your community with well-paying jobs
• If you want to better understand how diversity, equity, and inclusion reflect the workers of the future

Finding novel ways to collaborate and braid resources, stimulate diversity by making education and career opportunities more reachable, design the right on- and off-ramps to create supportive infrastructure for the emerging gig economy--WorkforceRx offers a clear-cut, proven strategy for each.

Van Ton-Quinlivan is a nationally recognized thought leader in workforce development and a catalyst for creating inclusive social and economic mobility for students through higher education. Her distinguished career spans the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

Ton-Quinlivan served as executive vice chancellor of workforce and digital futures of the California Community Colleges and brought about significant public investment growth in career education. She has been quoted as an expert on higher education in the "New York Times", "Chronicle of Higher Education", "Insider Higher Education", "Stanford Social Innovation Review", "U.S. News & World Report", and other publications. She is a frequent speaker at events hosted by the National Governors Association, Brookings Institute, Aspen Institute, Stanford's Hoover Institution, RAND Corporation, and numerous other forums.

Currently, Ton-Quinlivan is the CEO of Futuro Health, whose nonprofit mission is to improve the health and wealth of communities by growing the largest network of credentialed allied healthcare workers in the nation.

In 2013, Ton-Quinlivan was named a White House Champion of Change under the Obama administration in recognition of her notable career in industry, education, and service as a community leader. She received the California Steward Leader Award in 2017 for her dedication to collaboration and work with public, private, and civic leaders to support economic and social mobility for state residents. Ton-Quinlivan was included in Sacramento magazine's 2018 "Powered by Women" list of leaders inspiring positive change. In 2019, she was named a mediaX distinguished visiting scholar by Stanford University.

Ton-Quinlivan earned her master's degrees from the Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Business and has an honorary doctorate from Golden Gate University. She serves on the boards of the National Skills Coalition, National Student Clearinghouse, and California Forward and advises the Putting America Back to Work venture fund.

Ton-Quinlivan resides in Northern California with her husband and two sons.