Employer Mobilization
Our expertise and reach can help you create a more inclusive, agile, and resilient workplace.
We know what it takes to help companies create solutions that benefit both businesses and workers. As a leader and connector in workforce and education, Jobs for the Future’s Employer Mobilization practice is the go-to for employers who want to invest in inclusive talent strategies.
Our diverse team of strategists, designers, and advisors can help you set and achieve a bold vision to address business challenges and build solutions that work for learners, workers, and communities.
Key Initiatives
Knowledge and Insights
We curate the information and build the resources you need to drive inclusive career mobility at your company.
Network Engagement
We connect you with like-minded professionals to share approaches and solutions and build a community of motivated peers.
Program Design and Consulting
We work with you to implement and scale promising, field-changing solutions.
News & Ideas
Next Gen Solutions for Next Gen Talent
How Employers Can Engage, Develop, and Advance Gen Z—Today’s Early Talent As Gen Z—today’s early talent—enters the workforce in growing numbers, a central question for employers is how they can better understand and respond to…
Success, Redefined: How Nondegree Pathways Empower Youth to Chart Their Own Course to Confidence, Employability, and Financial Freedom
How nondegree pathways empower young people to chart their own courses to confidence, employability, and financial freedom Today’s young adults want and need a diverse array of education options, including, but not limited to, two-…
Private Equity Holds the Key to Creating Quality Jobs for Millions
“Private Equity Holds the Key to Creating Quality Jobs for Millions” makes the business case for why investments in talent at PE portfolio companies could catalyze improvements in job quality throughout the U.S. economy while at…
Rework America Alliance
Advancing opportunities for millions of workers in low-wage roles to move into quality jobs. An Alliance to Help People Move Into Better Jobs The Rework America Alliance is a unique partnership of civil rights organizations,…
Skills-Based Hiring Toolkits
Time-saving toolkits include a skills-based job posting, interview questions, and onboarding plans. Are you tired of sifting through stacks of resumes and struggling to find the right candidates for your open positions? Adopting a skills-based…
Skills-Based Practices: A Journey Map for Employers
This document is a one-stop guide to help employers build business agility, workforce diversity, and resilience through skills-based talent practices. It includes business cases for a skills-based approach and resources to assess a company’s maturity…
Featured Projects
Action Collaboratives
JFF Action Collaboratives bring corporate leaders together to ideate and problem-solve on cross-cutting issues related to talent and enabling equitable career mobility for employees.
Impact Employer Talent Framework
Impact Employers take a fundamentally different approach to attracting, developing, and retaining talent—they prioritize the social and economic well-being of employees.
Impact Stories
Employee Well-Being Is Critical to Equitable Economic Advancement
Our first Action Collaborative explored how corporate leaders can drive well-being initiatives to support their employees' abilities to thrive at work. Here’s what we learned.
Changemakers: How Salesforce Is Building Belonging With Its Workers
One phone call at a time, Salesforce’s Jacalyn Chapman is leading Salesforce’s workforce culture.
Part 1: 10 Strategies to Help L&D Leaders Increase Worker Opportunity (and Shareholder Results)
After nearly 40 years of widespread disinvestment in human capital, companies are finally coming to terms with the need to invest in the critical sources of talent their success depends upon.
Team
Cat Ward
Vice PresidentCat Ward is vice president of JFF’s Employer Mobilization practice, which engages the private sector as a strategic force for good. She leads a team that advises companies on envisioning, developing, and implementing strategies that…
Laura Roberts
Senior DirectorLaura Roberts is a senior director in the Employer Mobilization practice at JFF. She leads the design and implementation of JFF’s work with Fortune 1,000 corporate leaders, helping them change business practices at scale in…
Megha Bansal Rizoli
DirectorMegha Bansal Rizoli is a director in the Employer Mobilization practice at JFF. She drives strategy and thought leadership on the role that private-sector employers and institutions play in creating equitable economic advancement and quality…