Stabilizing Your Workforce

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Stabilizing Your Workforce: The Doors Your Entry-Level, Lower-Wage Employees Must Navigate

Instability is another measure of diversity in our workforce. Individuals living in unstable, low-income environments can be major contributors to workplace success, and they may also have life issues that lead to poor job performance, missed work, and turnover. In this keynote, we will examine tools that help stabilize employees living in daily instability. These tools include reviewing diversity through the lens of economic environments, resource networks for employers, and small-dollar loans. Each tool has the capability of moving your employees from poverty to stability. These tools provide your business with increased productivity and profits.

Keynote Speaker: Ruth Weirich, Author and Consultant at aha! Process
Opening Speaker: Mark McInerney, Director of the Center for Workforce Research and Information

About our Keynote Speaker:

Ruth Weirich brings to your business a thorough understanding of business practices and will help you find ways to reduce employee turnover and increase productivity? while helping you achieve your business goals. Weirich is the author of Workplace Stability: Creating Conditions That Lead to Retention, Productivity, and Engagement in Entry-Level Workers.

Weirich has been a management professional in the publishing industry for 30 years. She received her M.B.A. from Colorado State and her B.A. in Business Administration from Goshen College. With a proven track record of maximizing performance and attaining financial goals, Weirich has held responsibilities ranging from communicating with all stakeholders to preparing operating budgets to overseeing a strategic plan. Weirich is an active listener, a critical thinker, and has quick judgment and decision-making skills. Weirich recently was president of aha! Process.

About our Opening Speaker:
Mark McInerney is an economist and the Director of the Center for Workforce Research and Information (CWRI) at the Maine Department of Labor. CWRI’s core mission is to inform the public about conditions and trends in the workforce. Mark joined CWRI in 2020 after completing his PhD in Economics at the University of Connecticut.