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IIB: The jobs of the future are here. Indiana is getting the workforce ready.

Raquel Bahamonde2024-06-12T08:43:29-04:00June 12, 2024|

Inside INdiana Business Perspectives article by Ascend Indiana President and CEO Brad Rhorer. During my nearly 30 years in the automotive industry, there was one thing that was constant: Change. When I first started on the production floor 32 years ago, automotive component welding was done by hand; today robots are programmed to weld those same components. Processes, technologies and the workforce have evolved over three industrial revolutions, and as Indiana–and the world–continues to march into the fourth (better known as Industry 4.0), we face an all-too-common theme. With new technology comes the need to upskill and reskill our workforce. READ MORE

Ascend Indiana CEO Brad Rhorer talks youth apprenticeships on Capitol Hill

Raquel Bahamonde2024-03-15T11:55:41-04:00March 12, 2024|

Ascend Indiana President and CEO Brad Rhorer was on Capitol Hill this week to speak before the subcommittee for the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Rhorer testified on the value of youth apprenticeship and highlighted the progress Indiana has made in serving youth in apprenticeship experiences. U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper from Colorado chairs the subcommittee and Indiana Senator Mike Braun is a ranking member on the subcommittee. Ascend Indiana is the talent and workforce development initiative of CICP. READ MORE

Ascend Indiana names new President and CEO and New Board Chair

Raquel Bahamonde2023-12-21T08:17:18-05:00December 21, 2023|

INDIANAPOLIS – The Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) and Ascend Indiana announce that Conexus Indiana COO and Chief Talent Officer Brad Rhorer has been named president and CEO of Ascend Indiana, CICP’s talent and workforce development initiative, and will succeed Jason Kloth in January. Concurrently, Board Vice Chair Bridget Boyle, head of people and culture for Roche Diagnostics, has been named chair of the Ascend Board of Directors, succeeding founding chair Mark Hill, who will step down at the beginning of the year. In October, Ascend Indiana announced that President and CEO Jason Kloth would step down on January 1, 2024. Kloth helped to create the talent and workforce development initiative nearly nine years ago and grew it into an organization that received more than $50 million in philanthropic funding since its inception in 2016 and has connected more than 4,700 [...]

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