“Rebuilding an economy that works for everyone is the calling of our time.”
— Dr. Angela Jackson
ABOUT ANGELA
Dr. Angela Jackson is the founder of Future Forward Strategies, a labor market intelligence, design thinking, and strategy firm that assist leaders with transforming organizations and human capital infrastructure necessary for public, private, and non-profit organizations to maintain competitiveness while creating positive impact. Dr. Jackson is also a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she teaches the next generation of students about entrepreneurship in the education marketplace. She was the architect of the Future of Work Grand Challenge, an initiative to rapidly reskill 25,000 displaced workers into living-wage jobs in the 24 months.
Dr. Jackson’s expertise centers on how we create a future of work that works for everyone. She has spoken on this topic at conferences including TEDx, Concordia Summit, Techonomy, ASU + GSV, US Chamber of Commerce Digital Empowers National Summit and Black Women Talk Tech. Her work and writing have been featured in CNN, SSIR, Quartz, Harvard Business Review and more.
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“Angela has creatively and collaboratively brought a variety of different actors together to achieve a broad, compelling, vision for change. Nowhere has her stamp been more critical or more evident than in her approach to the Future of Work Grand Challenge, which centers frontline workers and Workforce Advisory Boards themselves in the design.”
— Eliza Greenburg, Managing Partner at New Profit