Workforce 2030
Lancaster County’s Premier Workforce Development Event
Uniting Business/Education/Community on the campus of Elizabethtown College | August 1 – 3, 2022
The Workforce 2030 Summit built upon, and extended work done at Rock Lititz on June 25, 2021, when community thought-leaders came together to craft the following aspirational goal, and related strategic priorities, for Lancaster County:
Lancaster County will create a world-class workforce by 2030. A world-class workforce is made up of agile learners who maximize their human capital to benefit both themselves and their employer. Members of a world-class workforce are diverse, highly skilled individuals who bring talent, passion, agency, and resilience to their workplace.
Read the report of the June 25, 2021, Workforce Development Summit here.
The Workforce 2030 Summit was designed to highlight strategies and practices to help Employers, K-12 Education, Higher Education and Community Members create a world-class workforce by 2030.
Help wanted in Lancaster County: All workers welcome
Building without blueprints in Lancaster County
Keynote Speakers


Dr. Kevin J Fleming currently leads the Planning and Development unit as a Vice President at Norco College (part of Riverside Community College District, CA) having previously supported over 40 Career & Technical Education (CTE) programs as well as multiple state and federal grants as a Dean of Instruction. Producer of multiple viral animation videos including Success in the New Economy, and author of the bestseller, (Re)Defining the Goal, Dr. Kevin J Fleming is a passionate advocate for ensuring all students enter the labor market with a competitive advantage. While vice president for the California Community College Association for Occupational Education, and serving on visiting teams for the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Dr. Kevin J Fleming wrote three books including Maintaining Strategic Relevance and an interactive etextbook to train Supply Chain Technicians. Previously, his Center of Excellence was recognized by the Community College Futures Assembly for analyzing workforce trends and providing customized labor market research for the largest higher education system in the world: the California Community Colleges.

Talithia D. Williams is an American statistician and mathematician at Harvey Mudd College who researches the spatiotemporal structure of data, and applies them to problems in the environment. She has partnered with the World Health Organization in developing a cataract model used to predict the cataract surgical rate for counties in Africa. Her research interests also include nonstationary covariance estimation and change-of-the-support problem. She demystifies the mathematical process in amusing and insightful ways, using statistics as a way of seeing the world in a new light and transforming our future through the bold new possibilities inherent in the STEM fields.
Community Presenters
Teachers as Temporary Workers
Jason Andrews, The Steinman Foundation
Dr. Carole Basile, Dean of the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University
Career Ready Lancaster!
CNH Industrial
A Hands-on Work-based Learning Experience
Electron Energy Corporation
A Hands-on Work-based Learning Experience
Dr. David Finegold, President of Chatham University
The Future of Higher Education
Dr. Andi Fourlis, Superintendent of Mesa Public Schools
The Next Education Workforce: Bringing Private Industry into the Classroom
Lori Guiseppe, Director of Learning and Talent Development The High Companies
The High Companies
A Hands-on Work-based Learning Experience
John McCormick, Vice President, Managing Director, StructureCare
Anthony Saba, Executive Director at Samueli Academy
SDoL Class of 2030
Dr. Matt Skillen, Director of the Etown Teaching & Learning Design Studio
Jack Smith, AASA: The School Superintendent’s Association
Dr. Brian Troop, Superintendent of Ephrata Area School District
Heather Valudes, The Lancaster Chamber
Alicia Wilson, Vice President for Economic Development at Johns Hopkins University and Health System