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Heather E. McGowan and panel

Most Likely to Succeed: Anticipating the Future of Education and Careers

Tue, Mar 9, 2021 @ 7:00 pm CST - 8:30 pm CST

| Free

Take 5: Most Likely to Succeed with Heather McGowan HERE (YouTube)

THE FUTURE OF WORK IS HUMAN
“There is no killer app that will endure. A technical, single disciplinary skills list for creating a future-proof workforce does not exist. Using our factory pipeline to work where we merely substitute STEM, or any other skills, to create a robot-proof workforce is faulty logic. For example, Upwork is an online platform for freelance work with 12 million registered freelancers and five million registered clients. In early 2019, Upwork released its list of the 20 fastest growing skills – 75 percent of those skills were new to the index in the fourth quarter of 2018. From this, we can see that our old model of codifying and transferring existing skills and predetermined knowledge used to create a deployable workforce once worked in industrial revolutions but falls apart with this speed of change. Advancing technological capabilities will soon be able to achieve anything mentally routine or predictable – perhaps more than half of all current human work tasks. In this reality, the solution is both learning and adapting with a focus on uniquely human, nontechnical skills that enable more meaningful work through augmentation of computerized technologies. The future of work is human. Once we stop lunging at single disciplinary skill sets while and in fear of being replaced by technology, we can focus on developing our uniquely human skills and leverage rising technological capabilities to unleash the potential of humanity.”
Heather McGowan 
  Strategic Consultant, Amazon Best-Selling Author, Virtual Speaker, LinkedIn’s 2017 Top Influencer on Lifelong Learning & The Future of Work

Strategist and author Heather E. McGowan will outline a world where humans must continuously learn and adapt while avoiding the pitfalls of information overload. Ranked as LinkedIn’s number one global voice for education in 2017, McGowan helps leaders prepare their people and organizations for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which will bring a rapid advancement of technology tools into the domain of human knowledge work.

McGowan also will join College of DuPage President Dr. Brian Caputo, DuPage Regional Office of Education Superintendent Dr. Darlene Ruscitti, Glenbard High School District 87 Superintendent Dr. David Larson and academic consultant and researcher Dr. Lourdes Ferrer-Allen for a discussion about the key role that education will play in developing a future workforce that produces rewarding careers and a thriving economy. Presented in partnership with Glenbard High School District 87 and the DuPage Regional Office of Education.

Future-of-work strategist Heather E. McGowan helps leaders prepare their people and organizations for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Third Industrial Revolution was marked by computerization and automation of physical labor, laying the foundation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which will be notable for the rapid advancement of technology tools into the domain of human knowledge work.  In 2017, LinkedIn ranked her as its number one global voice for education.  Her think tank is called Work to Learn because McGowan believes that in the Third Industrial Revolution, we learned (once) in order to work and now, in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we will work in order to learn (continuously). McGowan is the co-editor and author of the book Disrupt Together: How Teams Consistently Innovate and a Forbes contributor. Heather McGowan is the author of The Adaptation Advantage: Let Go, Learn Fast, and Thrive in the Future of Work and Thrive in the Future of Work, available April 2021.

Brian W. Caputo serves as the President of College of DuPage, bringing more than 35 years of strategic management and leadership experience drawn from a broad range of senior executive positions in higher education, local government, and the military. Previously, Dr. Caputo was the Vice President for Administrative Affairs and Chief Financial Officer for the College. At College of DuPage, he has been integrally involved in developing key academic and career training programs, including Guided Pathways (a structured program to enhance student success), Project Hire-Ed (a workforce development initiative), and Innovation DuPage (a business incubator/accelerator/training facility). He has also spearheaded major financial transparency initiatives. Dr. Caputo currently teaches accounting courses at the College and has been a full-time faculty member at Central Michigan University as well as an adjunct faculty member at Northern Illinois University.

 

Dr. Darlene J. Ruscitti, the Regional Superintendent of Schools for DuPage County, is passionate about education. For four decades she’s been inspiring students, teachers, and school administrators to achieve excellence in learning. Working alongside education, civic, business, community, and political leaders across Illinois and the nation, Darlene shares her vision of making our nation’s educational system the best in the world. As chief administrative officer of the DuPage Regional Office of Education, Darlene’s achievements in education have increased graduation rates, decreased drop-out rates, and produced many of the top-scoring schools in Illinois. Many “best practice” models originate from Darlene’s leadership, making DuPage County a leader in Illinois public education. Darlene has served in many state-wide leadership roles including vice president of the Illinois Association of County Superintendents, area chairman of Illinois Association of Regional Superintendent of Schools, and chairperson of the DuPage County Strategic Plan. In addition, she has provided valuable expertise as a member of statewide transition committees, safety task forces, standards and accountability, and many other education initiatives.

Dr. David Larson is in his ninth year as superintendent of Glenbard Township High School District 87. Glenbard District 87 has four comprehensive high schools with 8,100 students from nine suburbs. Dr. Larson has been a school administrator for more than 30 years, including 21 years as Superintendent. He has served in three communities in Michigan, as well as the Singapore American School and Palm Beach County School District in Florida. Dr. Larson is a leader in closing the achievement gap and increasing enrollment of underrepresented students in Advanced Placement courses. He also has led Glenbard District 87’s work to increase the number of high school juniors who take advanced science and math. Dr. Larson led the community engagement program to develop Glenbard’s Profile of a Graduate, which identifies the knowledge, skills and experiences students need to prepare for their future in a changing world.

 

Dr. Lourdes Ferrer-Allen is a National Academic Consultant, Researcher, Curriculum/Program Developer, Motivational Speaker and Author Growing up in a disadvantaged family in Puerto Rico, Lourdes soon learned that education was the way out of the poverty cycle. She went on to complete her Doctoral Degree in Leadership and took a position as a School Improvement and Assessment Specialist for the School District of Palm Beach County. In 2005, Dr. Lourdes left Florida to work as an Education Consultant in DuPage County, Illinois, and other school districts across the nation. Since then, she has been analyzing student performance data and conducting qualitative studies to find out from the students’, teachers’ and parents’ perspectives the reasons behind the lack of academic achievement of students on states’ accountability tests. For the past eight years, she has developed numerous programs designed to increase the academic achievement of all students and close the stubborn academic achievement gaps between diverse student populations.

Dr. Lourdes is the author of the books Hispanic Parental Involvement: Ten Competencies Schools Must Teach Hispanic Parents. She also wrote Siéntese en la Silla del Conductor: Las Diez Competencias Para Conducir a Sus Hijos al Triunfo Académico (Sit In the Driver’s Seat: The Ten Competencies to Drive Your Children to Academic Success) and co-authored Voices: African American and Hispanic Students’ Perceptions Regarding the Academic Achievement Gaps to Overcome Apathy and Improve Performance.

 

 

Heather McGowan’s website HERE

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Tuesday, March 9, 2021
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7:00 pm CST - 8:30 pm CST
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Heather E. McGowan and panel