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Michelle Weise      

SVP, Workforce Strategies, Strada Education Network & Chief Innovation Officer, Strada Institute for the Future of Work

Michelle R. Weise is the SVP, Workforce Strategies, Strada Education Network & Chief Innovation Officer, Strada Institute for the Future of Work. She leads the organization’s workforce alignment initiatives as well as innovation and thought leadership priorities. Based in Indianapolis, Strada Education is a national nonprofit dedicated to improving lives by strengthening the pathways between education and employment.

Michelle works with CEOs of start-ups, foundation heads, and institutional leaders across the U.S. She is a senior advisor for Entangled Solutions and serves on the Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as on the advisory board of Village Capital. Highly active in and across the various networks of higher education policy, innovation, philanthropy, and institutions, Michelle is dedicated to connecting students to affordable educational pathways into and within the workforce that are validated by employers.

She is a columnist for EdSurge and the former Chief Innovation Officer of Sandbox ColLABorative, the research and development lab of strategy and innovation at Southern New Hampshire University. She co-authored the book, Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution, with Clayton Christensen while serving as the Senior Research Fellow in higher education at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation. She has also served as the Vice President of Academic Affairs for Fidelis Education and taught at Skidmore College and Stanford University. Michelle is a former Fulbright Scholar and graduate of Harvard and Stanford. Her commentaries and research have been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Boston Globe, and PBS Newshour.

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