Companies and brought to you today wii your cable or satellite provider. Now its a look at the future of the work force. The ceos of the markell foundation and seamans usa talk about the importance of technical training. This is about 50 minutes. Good morning. Im sorry we are starting this a little bit late. We just had a lively discussion with secretary perez. And so were a bit delayed here. But this discussion this morning is no less important, maybe more important, maybe just as important as the headache discussion that we just came from. This morning we are very lucky to have two amazing leaders with us, judy marks from seamans thank you for joining us and zoey baird for the markell foundation. This is an issue near and dear to the hearts of every governor whos here and every governor in the 50 states mainly because as we were just talking about we governors have an insebtive to get this right. The employers in our states are counting on us to figure out how to deliver them a trained work force. And that absolutely includes four year college, includes Community College and includes career and technical education. But it includes and needs to increasingly include Apprenticeship Programs. Here in rhode island we are big believers in the apprenticeship model. Very early on in my term we received a grant from the federal government around apprenticeship. We have duens of programs, they are working. And we are especially focused on what i call the nontrade apprenticeships. We have one in cyber, one in it, one in process technology. Nontrade but incresably important highgrowth areas. And were looking to learn from both of you this morning to figure out how we can expand and deepen the work were doing. So it gives me great pleasure to first introduce judy marx from seamans. Thank you for joining us this morning. Before becoming ceo of seamans usa, she held various pgs at lockheed martin. Ive had the opportunity to chat briefly this morning with her in addition to being a seasoned, successful, experienced seasoned executive whos delivered complex systems, shes a real believer in the model. Right now they have 2,000 open positions and she needs to gets them filled. She believes apprenticeship in uperating apprenticeships in four of their plants in this country and is expanding. Good morning. Good morning. Thanks for inviting me. I also have the privilege of sharing our 501c3. This is more about higher paying jobs. This is more than about growing our economy. We need to be able today to industrialize our nation. And that renaissance, whats happening around the country, its not just at a state level. We believe that governors have not only the most motivation but the most tools and ability to make this a reality for us. So let me share a lilt bit of what weve done as seamans and as the seamans foundation so states can learn from each other. And we can share whats worked successfully over seas as well. Were working with the nga and the center for best practices because we find that that is the best way to proliferate best practices. Weve chosen six states were already working with to be able to deal with skills and training. Were also working with 12 states on apprentice registrations and how we can make that happen quicker and more efficiently. But most importantly we had a recent opportunity to work with the mga and jp organization to share what works over in europe. And we had the privilege of sponsoring and joining governor dugart, governor fallin, governor babin as you got an opportunity with your staffs to see really what works in germany and switzerland firsthand and more importantly how can we tailor that when it comes back to the states . We want to take those lessons as well. But today were facing some interesting challenges in the new industrial economy, and i see that as do my colleagues. Here at seamans weve been in the u. S. For 160 years. And weve had to reinvent ourselves many times in those years. Weve got 50,000 employees and 50 manufacturing plants of our own. But we think the time has come where were seeing the convergence of software and the convergence of the Digital Economy. And thats whats driving manufacturing today. Its not the manufacturing you think of in the past. Its about having those human skills coming outofthe high schools in our country and being able to apply those skills in a Digital Economy. Youll hear a lot about arent robots taking over . I want to be clear here and factual. In germany we use about three times the robot manufacturing as we do in the United States. Theres a role for robots in technology, and theres a role for humans. But the humans we need need more than a high school education. They need a different skill and education program. And weve moved away from that Vocational Training that was the bedrock of how we built the last Industrial Revolution. We are a new Industrial Revolution today. Its all about advanced manufacturing, and we need workers who can do that. So what we did to fill our own openings, we turned internally to our roots and applied the german model. We moved a facility from canada here and we needed workers who could have the ability to build large gas turbines, steam turbines, et cetera. So we started an Apprenticeship Program and started with a local Community College. And these students after four years, they worked for us part time, we pay their tuition so they have a debtfree education, they get an Associates Degree and a journmans certificate and a guaranteed job with us. And ill share something at the end of this little introduction that i think youll find highly energizing. But beyond that we think we have a responsibility to employ a work force. Its not just about the people. We have to create the curriculum. We have to create the environment. We have to tell you what the demand signal is and what skills we need. And we have to give these students and universities and colleges the tools to be successful. So in the past five years weve granted 3 million throughout the nation so these students whether their getting an aid degree, an Associates Degree come out with what they need to be perform. I cant start the discussion without talking about the obstacles we face. Its a stigma thats associated right now with technical education. And it starts early in the high schools. It starts in our communities. It starts with our parents. Our typical apprentice when they graduate, and we have apprenticeships in four states, doubling that to eight states this year, returns between 55,000 to 65,000 when they start apprenticeships. When youre 14 years old and selected to be an apprentice that is looked at positively as opposed to going to a university. Here in the United States we dont look at it that way. We did a survey and talked to the parents and students involved ina technical edge kagds, theyre very pleased with where its going. So we believe industry is ready. We believe the states are the absolute best place to get it done. We commend governors for making this real. As industry we want to work with you to do that. And id like to share with you a piece that was just on the nbc nightly news from our charlotte, North Carolina facility. You will find the energy of chad robson, one of our apprentices, who ironically had the opportunity, accepted to a four Year University and he turned it down because he did not want to college debt. If he chooses, he can go on and get a bachelors degree through our tuition reimbursement. But you will find his energy and passion on what he does remarkable. So let me share that video with you. This is the sound of manufacturing in 2017. At seamans energy hub in charlotte, North Carolina. I dont see or hear those big machines when i think of manufacturing. No, todays manufacturing is different. Its custom and quiet and based on computers. Finding workers to build gas turbines was one of her biggest challenges. We actually moved the product line from canada here. And when we moved here, we needed about 800 employees. We were coming up a little short. She said only about 15 of those who applied had the skills needed. Seamans started an apprenticeship. An estimated 2 million jobs may go unfilled in the next decade. Instead of going to a Fouryear College, chad robson dhoez to we an apprentice. Robinson works in the factory. After four years hell have an Associates Degree, a journeymans certificate, a salary of at least 50,000, and skills crucial to the larger economy. If we dont provide a labor force that can fill that work, technology, foreign companies, outsourcing are going to replace the opportunity to earn your living in those occupations. Taking a page from successful apprentice programs in europe, seemans now has similar training at three more u. S. Factories. It is an investment, and you have to start there. Benefitting the company and the economy. Anne thompson, nbc news, charlotte. Very impressive, and thank you for your commitment to this work. I now would like to introduce zoey bear. Zoey is the ceo of that foundation, held it since 1998. And under her leadership the foundation has really focused considerably on this exact issue. I know shes partnered with other governors here in Public Private partnerships to invest in successful training and job training programs. Prior to that zoey had an incredibly successful career as a lawyer in government. Shes a friend and a leader. Im an admirer, and i think shes just the perfect person with the perfect background to partner with us governors to take a leadership role in apprenticeships. Thank you so much. Its a privilege to be with you at your hosted mga meet, which i understand is a tremendous success and a tremendous success for all of you. So i hope that we will contribute some ideas that you take away that are really actionable in your own states. And thank you very much to the mga for having us here. I think its really important for all of us and ive spent a lot of my life in Public Service as well as the private sector and i think its really important for all of us who sit in a role where were trying to address the pain that people are feeling in this country and trying to create the opportunity for them that we know exists, to look at this question of the Digital Economy from their vantage point. So how do people feel . People are excited . Most people have smart phones. Most people use netflix or amazon streaming or binge watch movies. So theres an a lot of excitement about what the Digital Economy is bringing. But personally, most people feel they dont see their place in it from an economic point of view. Most people dont understand what jobs to tell their kids to go after, what training to tell their kids to go after, what they themselves should be doing. We did a poll with pew to show that 87 of americans, during elections when the country was divided, 87 of americans said they needed to get training in their lifetime in order to succeed in their career. But they look at the institutions that serve them and their see our schools ending at 18 or 22. They see our Financial Aid and they think its for young people. They go to an Unemployment Office or Work Force Center and people arent trained in seeing what the Digital Economy looks like. So theyre talking about how to bring back jobs or how to get into a job thats highly competitive. But were not able to fill 6 million jobs in this country. And each of us in our states could talk about the 100,000 construction jobs that we cant fill today. If we get a zbrat infrastructure, were not going to have the welders, the people who know how to use a robot to break down the old infrastructure in order to create the new. So theres a great disjunction between what weve been telling people, which is go to college, get a fouryear degree and youll succeed and what they actually need to succeed in the Digital Economy. We have not done people a service telling them if you havent achieved a fouryear degree youre a failure. And thats how almost 70 of americans see the world because almost 70 of americans do not have a Fouryear College degree. So we need a much more diverse sense of possibilities for people. Thats what were talking about here with apprenticeships, which is a really critical and important aspect of that. But theres so many other ways in which we can also create opportunity for people. You know, 100 years ago when we moved from an Agricultural Community to the industrial age, we invented the high school. You probably havent thought about where does the High School Come from, why was it invented . It was invented at the state level to enable people to get the skills they need, the training they needed, the understanding of the world to move from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy. And what we believe is going to be necessary to scale all these great efforts of apprenticeships or employer educating matching is going to be inventing a Digital Economy labor market. And i want to show you a film we started this work in colorado, and its really taken off. We now have almost 300 employers signed up. And im going to tell you a little bit about skillful and what you can do in the United States. But first i want to show you a very short film which will give you a sense of what the Digital Economy labor market is all about. So if you could run the video, that would be great. America is really going through the largest change in its economy since the time of the Industrial Revolution. And so Many Americans dont feel that they understand what their place is in this new economy. There are 7. 3 million fewer jobs in America Today held by people with a High School Diploma or less than there were in 1989. And in some ways the single most important question for all of us in this country is how do we move forward without leaving some people behind . For decades weve been telling people get a College Degree and youll be able to compete for the growth jobs with higher incomes. Today its not necessary that that be the singular path that people take. Skills arent always measured by a dipploma. Theyre measured by the experience you gain and the type of training that you receive. What im seeing and hearing is that theres a fear that jobs are going away and theres not enough opportunities out there. And we that in the trade sector. Theres been a huge increase in openings for employment. In Health Care People always assume theres only two people that work in hospitals and theres doctors and nurses. But you have a gamut of different occupations. The real opportunity is to look to the middle of the graph, to the socalled middle skill jobs and equip more people to hold those kind of middle skill jobs and create more of those jobs. So skilled space labor market makes it possible for people to see career paths that they didnt realize were open to them before. We found people like a fedex truck driver in her early 40s, and she doesnt know what the Digital Economy holds for her. And through online tools she can see she has a lot of the skills for higher tech, higher paying job with very few additional hours of training. We need to change hiring practices, which is part of what skillful is doing, working on the ground, meeting with business, showing them how to do more skills focused hiring. 87 of americans believe that skills training throughout ones lifetime is necessary in order to succeed. We have a role. Its not just to sit back and hire people coming out of our College System or even our high schools. We need to do more training and apprenticeships. People say what if you train these people and they leave, and we say what if you dont train them, and they stay . Those in the tech sector need to create tools that will help people do more, education institutions, governments and frankly, most importantly all of us have an individual responsibility to do more in terms of learning more. So i hope that gives you a little bit of an overview, and govern governor hical, i hope you see a lot of our friends from college there. We believe this enables employers to go after the work force they need and see where the jobs are and educators what to train to. And as i said, we now have almost 300 employers signed up in colorado. We work deeply with about 20 of them to develop the position descriptions on the skills basis. You know, in kror, and im sure this is true in your own states, too, for an entry level Computer SystemsAdministration Job which has an annual income nationally of about 62,000 a year in colorado 75 of those job postings include a bachelors degree and are a barrier for others to apply for those jobs. But only 45 of incumbents have a degree. To break down the barrier and have the tools which we do on skillful. Com and were bringing in tools like the crick luthat seamans is creating, theres an enormous value out there to bring to employers who they might bring into the market to go after the skills. We need to have the trainers, the Community Colleges, the boot camps, the Fouryear Colleges as well make transparent what skills people have developed when they go to those schools so people get something of value along the way to the dipploma and so they can go out to the labor market at different points and really think about learning as lifelong. You can really dr