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2023 Talent First Economics

The 2023 Emerging Issues Forum examined ways to overcome barriers and help workers find employment and stay engaged in the workplace. By putting talent first—increasing our understanding of what employees are looking for and how employers and systems can respond—we can better energize, equip and unleash North Carolina’s full abundance of talent.

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2022 Advancing Together: Enhancing NC’s Workforce Through Educational Attainment

The 2022 Emerging Issues Forum brought together local, state and national leaders to call attention to this attainment gap and to the impact of the pandemic on efforts to close it.

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2021 ReCONNECT for the Future

The 2021 Forum concluded a six-event series focused on the “connections” our state struggles with. We created a shared understanding of the many “whys” to reconnect, highlighted select big ideas that have the greatest potential to help us reconnect, and built our capacity to better work together in order to move forward.

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I have attended and been involved with the Institute every year since the beginning. This is a great organization where creative thinking mixes with business and entrepreneurs. I have seen ideas being presented and then formed into policy and used to create jobs and opportunities.

Mark Fleming

Vice President of Government Affairs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (retired)