Group Leadership
Chair
Deb Franklin
CLAAS of America
Vice Chair
Jeff Fitch
Caterpillar
AEM Staff Contact
Julie Davis
Senior Director, Workforce & Industry Initiatives | 414-298-4157
Objectives and Responsibilities
- Maintain focus for the AEM workforce development initiative on specific areas of need in which a real impact may be made.
- Identify ongoing objectives, tactics and target audience.
- Support relevant industry partners for a unified AEM-led industry initiative.
- Provide guidance for the allocation of resources used to execute workforce development activities.
- Help facilitate additional AEM member engagement in the initiative.
2022 Priorities
Goal 1: Activate Industry Leaders
- Create opportunity for peer-to-peer conversations around effective workforce development efforts
- Both C-Suite and HR Levels
- Create a leadership video focused on what it takes to lead successful workforce development engagement. Engaged leaders challenging all leaders to activate
- Help shape leadership’s view of workforce efforts as strategic instead of just tactical
- Engage more c-suit leaders at the committee level
Goal 2: Explore how to Gamify / Celebrate Engaged Workforce Efforts
- Explore “workforce in a box” concept (Possibly like I Make America)
- Construct a points or rating system for workforce so we can measure engagement and progress
- Award and rate companies that participate
- Use 2022 to create a framework and explore this concept so we could budget for a roll out in 2023 if we decide to move forward
Ongoing Goals:
- Communicate Foundational Best Practices
- Help every member, regardless of size, resources, location or sector, to have easy access to best practices for workforce development.
- Support the toolkit with updated material and continue to promote to our members as an AEM resource.
- Facilitate formal partnerships with industry partners, education partners and student membership organizations.
- Expand equipment industry engagement in K-12 workforce development outreach.
- Agriculture teacher scholarship program / Curriculum for Agriculture Science Education program continuation
Leadership
- The Chair is elected by the group and serves a two-year term.
- The Vice Chair is elected by the group and serves until Chair succession.
Composition
- Executive-level representatives from AEM member companies.
Meetings
- At least one face-to-face meeting annually, in conjunction with other meetings/events if possible.
- Additional virtual or conference call meetings as required.