Giving Compass' Take:

• Rodney Sampson, CEO and founder of Opportunity Hub, discusses the importance of an education system that focuses on preparing students for the workforce.

• Why is it important to prepare youths with specific skills for the workforce before they enter? What training is needed?

• Read more about the need for workforce preparation in education.

The symbiotic relationship between the future of education and the future of work was an essential topic among attendees at the 2018 ESHIP Summit in Kansas City.

Rodney Sampson, CEO and founder of Opportunity Hub, participated in a discussion around diversity, equity, and inclusion with a group of people who work in the education space during the Summit. He believes it’s important students have an understanding of the skills needed to be successful in the future workforce.

Sampson said Opportunity Hub sponsored four bills that came out of the Georgia Blacks in Technology Policy Conference last October. The bills urge the state to fund software development, entrepreneurs, and artificial intelligence. The bills are based on the need for a serious disruption in our educational system to prepare students for a future workforce transformed by technology – whether that’s K-12 or college. Without this disruption, Sampson believes there’s no way we’ll have the workforce of the future.

Read the full article about the future workforce by Katey Stoetzel at the Kauffman Foundation.