Workforce Readiness Committee
This committee identifies strategies, policies, and other activities to ensure North Carolina has the workforce needed for a strong and vibrant economy. It also seeks to identify and promote strategies that support credential attainment and career advancement.
- Sherry Carpenter
- Rep. Vernetta Alston
- Andréa Allard
- Trey Michael
- Cecilia Holden
- Tom West
- Staff: Tracie Ford
Applied Workforce Experiences Committee
This committee identifies strategies to increase work-based learning experiences throughout the workforce system, allowing learners and jobseekers to explore and experience the world of work, and allowing employers to work with potential and recent hires to develop important durable and technical skills to enhance engagement, learning, and productivity.
- Tammy Simmons
- Thomas Walker
- Steven Mange
- Sarah Bourland
- Wendy Walker-Fox
- Brian Floyd
- Staff: Veronica Green
Industry-Driven Partnerships Committee
This committee supports strategies to ensure the workforce development system is visible, relevant, efficient, and easy to access by employers. The committee strives to connect employers to qualified, work-ready employees through meaningful partnerships with the workforce system.
- Rep. Matthew Winslow
- Mark Bolton
- Travis Reeves
- Anna Perkinson
- JB Buxton
- Eric Shoults
- Staff: Elisabeth Muehlemann
Workforce System Excellence Committee
This committee supports strategies and oversees activities that foster a more aligned and responsive system that is easy to access and customer oriented. The committee focuses on using data to drive strategies, measure performance, increase transparency, and improve accountability of the system. The committee promotes collaboration, policy alignment, innovation, and communication among workforce system agencies and partners.
- Chad Bouffiou
- Jennie Jackson
- W. Robert Axford
- Edsel McDonald
- Sen. Val Applewhite
- Staff: James Bain