‘PATHWAYS TO PROSPERITY’

Businesspeople Confer

On Otsego County’s

Workforce Challenges

ONEONTA – “How do we spark economic development in our region using the resources that we have?” asked Otsego County Chamber of Commerce President Barbara Ann Heegan.
That was the question that informed “Pathways to Prosperity,” the second annual Mohawk Valley Region Workforce Summit, being held – perhaps as you read this – at SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Hall.
“Who better to answer that question than local leaders who have been 30 years in business, hiring smart people, moving their businesses forward?,” she continued in an interview. Further, “how can we tap into our abundance of higher education?”
Here are some of the highlights of the Workforce Summit:
• Governor Cuomo’s director of workforce development, Madhuri Kommareddi, planned to discuss the future of the state’s workforce.
• A presentation on SUNY Oneonta’s
Entrepreneurship Club and how to tap into its ideas, led by Wade Thomas, School of Economics & Business Dean, and Otsego Chamber board chair Al Rubin.
• Al Cleinman, president of
Cleinman Performance Partners, the national consultant to optometrists, who electrified last year’s conference at The Otesaga with a call to develop “knowledge workers,” planned to revisit and update his concept.