Episode 34 - LIVE From SHIFT! Career Journeys Redefined Part 2: Mid-Career Professionals (September 2024)

This is the second of three conversations we hosted LIVE from the National Fund's premier, biennial convening, SHIFT Toward an Equitable Future.

A large part of our work at the National Fund is identifying ways in which we use our national platform to drive regional change on issues such as occupational segregation.

As part of that work, we identified career navigation as one such lever. We believe that it must be addressed at a systems level because the impact of occupational segregation goes beyond the worker. It impacts every facet of the workforce ecosystem from companies, education, human welfare, generational wealth opportunities, cities, towns and states because we know that inequities in our systems costs us in a myriad ways. So, we decided to take a deep dive into career navigation to identify opportunities to better support equitable opportunities for all. Today we'll be talking with some of our amazing collaborators who participated in this work.

This conversation focuses on mid-career professionals who were forced to make unexpected shifts. We met these folks last summer during our Career Navigation interviews. We were excited to be joined by: Brianna Rogers, Initiative Officer at ReWork the Bay; Andrew Shepherd, Senior Pipeline Technician at Northern Natural Gas; Tracy Carson, Project Manager at JCP Construction; and Shay Rainey, Project Manager at AYR Wellness.