Episode 136: Are Your Upskilling Certification Timelines Too Long to Be Impactful? | Barry Broome, Greater Sacramento Economic Council

• July 13, 2021

“Inclusion in economic development is an important conversation as we look to digitally upskill people who may not have had the opportunity.” –Barry Broome

How is your region looking at improving digital skills of your labor force? Is there a realization brewing that some training program time lines are simply too long to be impactful?

Today Carla Sones has an awesome conversation with Barry Broome, President and CEO at the Greater Sacramento Economic Council. Barry’s brain child, the Digital Upskill program, was recently featured by Sundar Pichai (CEO at Google) for its impactful and yet short time frame in which folks are earning a legitimate Google IT certification. Barry shares how they formulated the program, how they reduced costs yet increased impact, and how it’s reshaping their talent pipeline strategy.

Barry also dives into how economic development is changing to focus more on equity and inclusion, and he shares the process that’s leading up to growing the right industries that fundamentally support increased equity. He dives into how the economic development funding model changed to allow people to jump from unrest to middle class.

Barry is one of this year’s North America’s Top 50 Economic Developers and this interview really shows how innovative and in tune he is with what the future holds for economic developers. Tune in now to hear more!

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