S3 Ep3: Building a Workforce Agency From the Ground Up With Nicole Overley

What does it take to build a state workforce agency from scratch and set out to make it the best in the country? Nicole Overley, commissioner of Virginia Works, has led the agency since its founding. She joins host Danny Markstein to share how Virginia is rethinking the way it connects people to careers and employers to talent. They discuss why employers need to move from customers of the workforce system to co-investors in it, what’s behind the Commonwealth’s growth in registered apprenticeship, and why so many career pathways stay invisible to the people who could use them. Overley closes with why durable skills, especially learning agility, matter most in the age of AI.