The MassHire State Workforce Board is comprised of business leaders, community partners, union representatives, and state and local agency partners.
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Regional Workforce Planning
The Regional Plan Blueprints outline each region’s vision, mission, priority industries, occupations, and talent development needs. They demonstrate how workforce, economic development, education, and health services work together to meet the needs of both jobseekers and businesses across Massachusetts.
Membership
Name | Title | Organization | Affiliation |
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Sherry Dong | Director, Community Health Improvement Programs | Tufts Medical Center | Governor Appointed |
Lauren Jones | Secretary | Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development | Title I and III Representative |
Robert LePage | Assistant Secretary for Career Education | Executive Office of Education | Title II Representative |
Patrica Yu | Executive Office of Health and Human Services | Title IV Representative | |
Sarah Stanton | Undersecretary | Executive Office of Economic Development | Other Representative |
Tina Wolf | Commissioner | MassAbility | Other Representative |
Jennifer Almeida | Director of Education | Massachusetts Restaurant Association | Business and Industry |
Anne Broholm | Chief Executive Officer | Ahead, LLC | Business and Industry |
Jesse Brown | Founder/Director of Operations | Heidrea Communications LLC | Business and Industry |
Jim Chilton | EVP, Chief Technology Officer and GM INFOSEC | Cengage Group | Business and Industry |
Megan Driscoll | Founder and CEO of Megan Driscoll Consulting | Wage Equity Now Coalition | Business and Industry |
Pamela Everhart | Sr. Vice President, Head of Regional Public Affairs/Community Relations | Fidelity Investments | Business and Industry |
Jessyca Feliciano | Senior Director, People and Culture Business Partner | Generate:Biomedicines | Business and Industry |
Rainer Gawlick | Progress Software | Business and Industry | |
Randall Lyons | Executive Director | Massachusetts Marine Trades Association | Business and Industry |
Juliette C. Mayers | President and CEO | Inspiration Zone LLC | Business and Industry |
Tonja Mettlach | Executive Vice President | Massachusetts Business Roundtable (MBR) | Business and Industry |
Nicole Obi | President and CEO | Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA) | Business and Industry |
Sherri Pitcher | Sr. Chief Advancement Officer | Notre Dame Academy, Worcester | Business and Industry |
Joanne Pokaski (Chair) | AVP, Workforce Planning and Development | Beth Israel Lahey Health | Business and Industry |
Radhames Nova | President and CEO | Junior Achievement of Greater Boston | Business and Industry |
Representative Kipp Diggs | Representative, Second Barnstable District | Massachusetts House of Representatives | Legislature |
Senator Patricia Jehlen | Senator, Second Middlesex District | Massachusetts Senate | Legislature |
Chrissy Lynch | President | Massachusetts AFL-CIO | Labor |
John G. Mann | President | NAGE, Local 292 | Labor |
Elizabeth Skidmore | Business Representative/Organizer | North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters | Apprenticeship |
Maria Ferreira-Bedard | Executive Director | Southeastern Mass SER-Jobs for Progress | Community-based Organization |
Dr. Pam Eddinger | President | Bunker Hill Community College | Community-based Organization |
Paul Coogan | Mayor | City of Fall River | Chief Elected Official |
Committees
The Performance Committee develops and oversees strategies to enhance the workforce system’s capacity to support MassHire’s mission, vision, and values.
The Workforce System Modernization Committee provides oversight and guidance to the development, integration and deployment of the workforce IT system and ensures that the workforce IT system leverages modern tools, technologies, user-interface techniques, governance, and program management.
Committee meetings are open to the public. Visit the Open Meetings page for more information on past meetings, and future committee meeting dates, times, and locations.
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