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Kate Markin Coleman

Kate Markin Coleman

Kate Markin Coleman is principal of ias advising, LLC, and was an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University. Previously, she served as executive vice president and chief strategy and advancement officer for the YMCA of the U.S.A. She is the co-author, with Stephen Goldsmith, of Growing Fairly: How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce DevelopmentShe can be reached at kmcoleman@uchicago.edu.

We’re too focused on job creation and too little on skilling. Mayors and county executives need to take on a new role in workforce development, coordinating regional efforts built around better use of data.