The 2023 Detroit Workforce Leadership Academy has launched, in partnership with the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce and the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program. Leaders from across the Detroit workforce ecosystem will come together for a year-long series of retreats, workshops, and action learning projects. The Academy provides a forum for local leaders to work collaboratively to identify local and regional systems-based challenges and create shared solutions for economic opportunity for all. Fellows work with leading practitioners throughout the country as they deepen networks; strengthen systems leadership skills; apply race, equity, and systems change frameworks to their work; and increase understanding of effective strategies and programs.

The Detroit Workforce Leadership Academy is one of eight local academies launched in 2023. Alumni of the Academy become part of the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunity Fellows Network, joining Fellows from fourteen previous Academies in eleven cities in the US and Canada.

Congratulations to the WIN Board of Director organizations who are represented in the 2023 Detroit Workforce Leadership Academy! WIN is represented by Rob Leadley PhD, MSBME, MBA of Schoolcraft College, Michael D. Lewis – MPA of Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation (DESC)/Detroit at Work, Ellen Lux of Macomb Community College​, Kandyce Smith of Michigan Works! Macomb/St. Clair ​, Claudia Stephens of DESC/Detroit at Work Southwest Solutions, Lisa Straske, CBSP of Oakland County Michigan Works! Southfield and Alysha Mae (Schlundt-Bodien) Albrecht of Workforce Intelligence Network (WIN). Continue reading by clicking here.