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Ohio's Executive Workforce Board Holds Inaugural Meeting
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Executive Workforce Board, established by Gov. John R. Kasich held its inaugural meeting Monday. Members of the board will work with the Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation, created by Kasich in February to rationalize Ohio’s entire workforce system and provide recommendations on how best to streamline nearly 90 existing workforce programs scattered across 13 state agencies.
Its chairman, R. Blane Walter, vice president of inVentiv Health, will lead the board in its three-pronged approach to improve Ohio’s workforce system. These include forecasting the needs of the business community, streamlining delivery and services of workforce programs and implementing performance measurements for the workforce system.
For each of these focus areas, a subcommittee will be created and charged with identifying steps toward each goal, the board reported.
The Office of Workforce Transformation has been assigned five immediate tasks:
- Establish a formal line of communication between the Governor’s Executive Workforce Board and the 20 Local Workforce Investment Board chairs.
- Develop a statewide policy surrounding individual training accounts to provide a consistent, system-wide approach.
- Implement a statewide rebranding effort of all One-Stop offices so all identify with the OhioMeansJobs brand, creating consistency across the state.
- Encourage the use of the OhioMeansJobs website as the sole source of job searching and placement.
- Utilize the OhioMeansJobs website as a resource for those applying for unemployment.
The board, announced in September, is comprised of a variety of representatives including private-industry business, the Ohio General Assembly, local government, a state agency, labor and higher education. Along with Walter, members of the workforce board include:
- State Rep. John E. Barnes Jr.
- State Sen. Bill Beagle
- Ralf Bronnenmeier, CEO, Grob Systems Inc.
- Roy A. Church, president, Lorain County Community College
- Michael Colbert, director, Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
- Janet Creighton, Stark County commissioner
- State Rep. Tim Derickson
- Dennis Franks, superintendent, Pickaway Ross Career and Technology Center
- State Sen. Lou Gentile
- Vicki Giambrone, mayor of Beavercreek
- Mitchell P. Grindley, vice president, Plaskolite Inc.
- Amanda Hoyt, director of public affairs, Finance Fund
- Julie S. Janson, state president, Duke Energy
- David L. Joyce, president/CEO, General Electric Aviation
- John Komor, plant manager, General Mills
- Dennis A. Nash, chairman/CEO, Kenan Advantage Group
- Phillip L. Parker, president/CEO, Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce
- Albert B. Ratner, co-chairman emeritus, Forest City Enterprises Inc.
- Doug Reffitt, director, Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio Regional Council of Carpenters
- Patrick Sink, business manager, International Union of Operating Engineers
- Richard Stoff, president/CEO, Ohio Business Roundtable
- Gary S. Weinstein, chief operation officer, Providence Equity Partners
- David Whitehead, vice president, corporate secretary and chief ethics officer (retired), FirstEnergy
- Thomas F. Zenty III, CEO, University Hospitals
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.