How We Can Solve the Skill Shortage & Attract the Next Generation of Manufacturing Workers
- Thursday
- November
- 20
- 2025
Michele Nash-Hoff Overview:
Ms. Nash-Hoff’s presentation will describe the current industry association-led programs for training workers. It will also describe different programs currently in place around the country for career technical education at the high school and community college level.
It will provide information on several new initiatives and collaboration between industry, foundations, and education that are successfully attracting youth to manufacturing careers.
It will also describe how training programs are focusing on digital skills, automation, and data analysis and how industrial automation is expanding across manufacturing processes, with robots and cobots boosting productivity and accuracy.
Why should you Attend:
We are experiencing a full-scale digital revolution in the manufacturing industry at the same time that baby boomers are retiring. New advanced technologies are shifting skills sets needed by manufacturers. American manufacturers need to learn how to leverage new technologies and change the misperceptions of manufacturing jobs.
A regional ecosystem approach in building a skilled workforce is the most effective and manufacturers need to investing in internal training but also actively participate in partnerships with technical colleges and universities to broaden the talent pipeline. These partnerships often involve and focus on aligning curricula with the needs of the industry to ensure students are graduating with relevant, in-demand skills.
We need to energize a new generation of workers to close the labor shortage to ensure a strong middle class that will enable sustained economic growth and ensure a strong, secure domestic supply chain.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Industry Association training programs
- Career Technical Training at High Schools
- Career Technical Training at Community Colleges
- School Mentoring Programs
- Training for Veterans
- Apprenticeship programs
- Advanced training for companies in digital skills, automation, and data analysis
Who Will Benefit:
- Owners and/or Managers of Original Equipment Manufacturers, Job Shop Companies, Contract Manufacturers, and Companies Providing Secondary Operations and Services to all of the above
- CEO's/CFO's/Presidents
- Vice Presidents
- General Managers
- Human Resource Managers
Speaker Profile
Michele Nash Hoff is founder and president of ElectroFab Sales, a sales agency specializing in helping manufacturers select the right processes for their products.
She is a director on the board of the San Diego Inventors Forum, on the Advisory Board of the American R & D Institute, as well as an advisor to the board of the San Diego chapter of SME.
Michele is the author of Rebuild Manufacturing – the key to American Prosperity, which is a sequel to the 2009 and 2012 edition of Can American Manufacturing Be Saved? Why We Should and How We Can available at www.amazon.com. She writes blog articles for https://americanjobsalliance.com/
Michele earned a B. A. from San Diego State University and is a 1994 graduate of San Diego’s leadership program (LEAD San Diego). She earned a certificate in Total Quality Management in 1993 and a Yellow Belt in Lean Six Sigma in 2014.