Future Forward Summit

Today's Workforce Skills

High School Models That Lead To Jobs

Rural Pathways To Workforce Readiness

Accelerating Black Male Success

Senator Bill Frist, MD

Founder & Board Chairman, SCORE

Dr. Celeste Carruthers

William F. Fox Distinguished Professor of Labor Economics in the Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Dr. Joseph Fuller

Professor of Management Practice in General Management and Co-Leader of Managing the Future of Work, Harvard Business School

David Golden

CEO of East Tennessee State University Research Corporation and the Allen and Ruth Harris Chair of Excellence in the East Tennessee State University College of Business and Technology

JD Hickey

Chief Executive Officer at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

Jason Kloth

President & CEO of Ascend Indiana

Dr. Chauncy Lennon

Vice President for Learning and Work and Senior Strategy Advisor, Lumina Foundation

David Mansouri

President & CEO, SCORE

Lane McBride

Managing Director & Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Dr. Stephen Moret

President & CEO, Strada Education Foundation

Cheryl Oldham

Vice President of Education Policy at the US Chamber of Commerce and Senior Vice President of the Education and Workforce Program of the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Lizzette Gonzalez Reynolds

Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Education

Tara Scarlett

President & CEO of the Scarlett Family Foundation and Chair of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission

Deniece Thomas

Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development

Ted Townsend

President & CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber

Anne Wicks

Ann Kimball Johnson Director of Education and Opportunity at the George W. Bush Institute