at The Ford Foundation
320 E 43rd St
New York, NY 10017
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Networking
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM | Welcome Remarks
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM | Panel 1: Innovating Workforce Development: Strategies for Adapting to Changing Labor Market Trends
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM | Fireside chat on the future of work with Jay Jamrog, Co-Founder of i4cp, a research think tank for CEOs and CHROs, moderated by Darrell Gay, Partner at Arent Fox LLP
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM| BREAK
4:20 PM – 5:35 PM | Panel 2: The 2024 Election and NYC’s Future: Shaping Our City’s Trajectory
5:35 PM – 6:00 PM | BREAK
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM | Cocktail Reception
In today’s rapidly evolving labor market, leaders must innovate and adapt to meet the shifting demands of the workforce. This panel discussion will explore innovative approaches to workforce development and strategies for leveraging partnership and collaboration to amplify impact.
Speakers Include:
The 2024 election holds significant implications for New York City’s future trajectory, with far-reaching effects on the well-being and development of the city and its residents. In this panel discussion, we will explore the role of political parties in shaping policy agendas and electoral outcomes and how collaboration between state and local government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and other community stakeholders can help address the complex challenges that follow an election.
Speakers Include:
Angie Kamath, Dean, NYU School of Professional Studies (Coro alumn)
Brad Lander, Comptroller, New York City
Chauncey Nartey, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Adult Learning Leaders (Coro alumn)
Darrell Gay, Partner, Arent Fox (Coro alumn)
Gregg Bishop, Executive Director, Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation’s Social Justice Fund (Coro alumn)
Henry Garrido, Executive Director, DC37
Jay Jamrog, Co-founder, i4cp
Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO and Executive Director, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
Jonathan Bowles, Executive Director, Center for an Urban Future
Kenneth Adams, President, LaGuardia Community College
Keith L.T. Wright, Chair, New York County Democratic Party
Kevin D. Kim, Commissioner, New York City Small Business Services
LaAsia Hundley, Vice President, Facilities & Field Services, Con Edison
Mehul Patel, Senior Vice President, Head of Commercial Office, Rudin Management (Coro alumn)
Comptroller, New York City
Comptroller Brad Lander serves as New York City’s chief financial officer, leading an office of roughly 800 public servants in their work to promote the financial health, integrity, and effectiveness of city government and secure a more thriving and sustainable future for all New Yorkers.
As investment advisor and custodian for the City’s public pension funds, Comptroller Lander stewards the retirement security of over 750,000 current and retired public sector workers, with a prudent, diversified, long-term approach to the City’s investments and obligations. Under Comptroller Lander’s leadership, three of the City’s funds have adopted a detailed plan to reach net zero emissions by 2040, among the most aggressive in the nation. The plan includes divesting from fossil fuels, engaging asset managers and portfolio companies toward decarbonization across the economy, and dramatically scaling up investments in climate solutions.
Comptroller Lander serves as the City’s budget watchdog and chief accountability officer. His audits revealed nearly a quarter of a billion dollars underreported in NYC Ferry expenditures, inadequate cost controls in Covid-19 emergency procurement, and the ineffectiveness of the City’s homeless sweeps.
Comptroller Lander’s team published the first detailed report on emergency shelter costs for asylum seekers and identified more effective strategies for addressing the humanitarian crisis. The office launched the Department of Correction Dashboard to provide much-needed transparency into City jails. And his initiative with Mayor Eric Adams to pay nonprofit human service providers on time has reduced nearly year-long payment delays.
As Comptroller, Lander has strengthened the office’s efforts to combat the climate crisis, create and preserve affordable housing, and protect workers. His Public Solar NYC plan includes an innovative “public option” to scale up rooftop solar and create good green jobs. Under his leadership, the NYC pension funds led shareholder advocacy through which most Starbucks investors voted for an independent review of the company’s labor and human rights policies and actions.
As part of his commitment to New York City’s thriving and sustainable future, Comptroller Lander is focused on improving the City’s public infrastructure. As of July 2023, Comptroller Lander has managed the issuance of a total of $7.8 billion in municipal bonds to invest in schools, parks, transportation, water and sewer, and climate resiliency projects. The office’s public finance work includes innovative social bonds and tender solicitations that have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in savings, even amid rising interest rates. Comptroller Lander also worked with the Adams Administration to improve the City’s capacity to ensure infrastructure projects are built on time and on-budget.
Prior to being elected Comptroller in 2021, Lander spent 12 years in the City Council, where he co-founded the Council’s Progressive Caucus and won transformative changes to expand workers’ rights, secure tenant protections, create affordable housing, integrate and strengthen the district’s public schools, and make streets safer. He served previously as the director of the Fifth Avenue Committee and the Pratt Center for Community Development.
Brad lives with his wife, Meg Barnette, in Brooklyn where they raised two children, Marek and Rosa, who still roll their eyes at his dad jokes.
Commissioner, NYC Small Business Services
Kevin D. Kim was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams to serve as the Commissioner for the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS), a dynamic City agency focused on equity of opportunity leading to economic self-sufficiency and mobility for New York City’s diverse communities. Among the initiatives SBS successfully launched in his first year as Commissioner include: 1) largest public-private partnership loan fund in NYC directed to small businesses ($75M); 2) Cannabis NYC to outreach and educate New Yorkers on the opportunities connected to this newly-legalized market; 3) Small Business Forward – recommending more than 100 reforms to violations that overly-burdened small businesses, saving small businesses millions of dollars annually; and 4) Small Business Advisory Commission to give actual small business owners a seat at the table when important policy decisions are being made.
Commissioner Kim is an attorney, entrepreneur, and public servant. As a son of immigrant small business owners, and a former co-founder/operator of several small businesses, he understands first-hand the various challenges small businesses face.
In public service, Commissioner Kim served as the first Asian American commissioner of the New York State Liquor Authority. For more than a decade, he has been a recognized community leader serving on the boards of various non-profit organizations, including the CUNY Board of Trustees, President (Biden)’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, and American Red Cross (Queens). He is also a certified community mediator through his participation in the Black Korean Mediation Project.
Commissioner Kim is a proud product of the NYC public school system, having attended K-12 in Queens (graduating from Townsend Harris High School at Queens College). He received his B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a member of the Columbia Law Review.
Co-founder, i4cp
i4cp is a membership-driven research organization whose mission is to discover and advance the “Next Practices” in the management of human capital.
As a researcher and futurist, Jay has devoted the past 40 years to identifying and analyzing the major issues and trends affecting the management of people in organizations.
Over the years, Jay has helped some of the most innovative
organizations gain a deeper understanding of the world’s changing business environment and has helped them think strategically about today’s actions and tomorrow’s plans. In this role, Jay has had confidential access to some of the most progressive organizations, and he’s currently an active advisor to more than a dozen leading corporations.
Prior to co-founding i4cp in 2007, Jay was the co-founder of the Human Resource Institute (HRI) from 1982 to 2007. Jay has been the Associate Editor for Human Resources Planning Journal, has had articles published in major business magazines and is frequently quoted in business publications and newspapers.
Jay has an MBA, taught labor relations at the University of
Massachusetts and has been a Distinguished Lecturer at Duke
University and The University of Tampa. Jay also spent five years living in the Far East, has a Black Belt and reads history for pleasure.
Partner, Arent Fox LLP
Darrell represents for-profit, not-for-profit, and government clients with respect to their employee-related issues. Key to his work is the objective of assisting his clients in enhancing the performance of their employees and averting negative employee relations.
Darrell’s extensive work for clients with regard to traditional labor matters includes union negotiations, assistance during union organizing, including the development and management of neutrality agreements and elections, arbitrations, and unfair labor practice charges. In addition, he serves as chief negotiator for his clients during collective-bargaining sessions and has negotiated several agreements spanning a host of industries.
Darrell has also led several internal investigations of senior level executives, including several C-Suite level matters, on behalf of his corporate clients, frequently being retained by the entities’ Corporate Board of Directors. Darrell uses his experience working with the City, State and Federal Governments and as a New York State Commissioner in helping his clients navigate claims before governmental agencies.
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