Cohort 1
The Fellowship is built to advance our shared goal of unlocking opportunity for America’s workforce.
Introducing the Inaugural Cohort of Education and Career Mobility Fellows
The Education and Career Mobility Fellowship supports dedicated professionals who manage and administer talent development programs, recognizing the unique challenges and diverse backgrounds they bring.
This Fellowship — which is offered by UpSkill America in partnership with Guild — is designed for mid-career corporate education and talent professionals, offering a chance to learn, grow, and build a strong network.
Fellows will gain:
- Deeper understanding of levers for career mobility and economic opportunity, education and upskilling strategies, and effective program design
- Insights from national experts and direct connections with corporate learning and HR leaders, fostering best practices and exploring future career paths.
- A trusted network of peers facing similar challenges, enabling faster problem-solving and shared learning.
- This program empowers fellows to thrive in their career, develop leadership skills, and influence the future of education and workforce development.
For questions, please contact UpSkill America Associate Director Chelsea Miller at [email protected]
Meet the Fellows
Evan McQuirns
Sr Consultant, Global Learning and Leadership Development, Aramark
Rosie Reyes
Director, Learning & Development at Baptist Health South Florida, Baptist Health
People at the Center – How We Think About Designing Systems Change for Impact
Putting people at the center of the systems we are building means accepting that career paths are rarely linear. It requires us to build infrastructure that accommodates life transitions, recognizes informal learning, and values a worker’s agency over their own data.
How to Navigate Systems to Create Impact
We’re not training Fellows to win some abstract corporate game. We’re equipping them with the tools they need to navigate complex systems skillfully and make an impact for the workforce they serve.
Rethinking Learning and Opportunity: Insights from the Century Summit VI
As this work continues to evolve, we must move beyond polite conversation and into systemic redesign. We cannot solve the problems that lie ahead using the maps of the past.
Seeing the Grass, Solving for the Weeds
These leaders are returning to their organizations ready to ask the right questions and committed to the “weed-pulling” required to cultivate a stronger workforce.
UpSkill America & Guild Announce Third Cohort of Education and Career Mobility Fellowship
“We are delighted to welcome this new class of Fellows,” said UpSkill America Senior Director Haley Glover. “Supporting these leaders, who are joining a thriving community of alumni, to advance in their work and careers creating real value for their organizations and opportunities for their workforces is so rewarding. This is an incredibly impressive group.”
Moving Beyond a “Marriage” to Education
Last week, our second cohort of the Education and Career Mobility Fellowship gathered in Indianapolis for their third and final seminar. Over three days of discussion and collaboration, a clear theme emerged: the growth our fellows experienced was fueled by the power of their collective.
Announcing the 2024 Class of Education and Career Mobility Fellows
In partnership with Guild, UpSkill America is proud to support the Education and Career Mobility Fellowship. We would like to announce the 2024/25 fellows and the second cohort.
UpSkill America & Guild Announce Second Cohort of Education and Career Mobility Fellowship
UpSkill America of the Aspen Institute, and Guild are proud to announce the second cohort of the Education and Career Mobility Fellowship, a unique development program designed to support HR professionals in their efforts to build effective programs, connect opportunities, and create positive outcomes for employees across the workforce and the businesses that employ them.
The Fellowship Effect: Lessons in Success from the Education and Career Mobility Fellowship
But can I brag a minute about these Fellows? Because we may have provided the packaging, but THEY are the gift.
Supported by Guild
About UpSkill America
UpSkill America, an initiative of the Economic Opportunities Program, supports employers and workforce organizations to expand and improve high-quality educational and career advancement opportunities for America’s front-line workers.
About the Economic Opportunities Program
The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program advances strategies, policies, and ideas to help low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy.
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Room for Growth: A Survey of Upskilling Approaches — 2026 Analysis
This publication examines how fragmented skills, credentialing, and workforce data systems limit the potential of skills-based hiring and advancement, and outlines a shared vision for building the interoperable infrastructure needed to create a connected skills ecosystem that benefits workers, employers, educators, and governments.
Employer-Friendly Practices: A Guide for Higher Education
This resource is designed to help colleges and universities become more employer-friendly and build the kind of institutional capacity that sustains and grows partnerships while simultaneously better serving working learners. It offers role-specific guidance for leaders across the institution, a self-assessment spanning five domains of practice, and a process for turning results into action, grounded in the conviction that institution/employer partnerships can become easier without compromising academic missions.
MillerKnoll: Developing Operations Leaders from Within and Beyond — A Case Study in Structured Talent Development
Bridge, Propel, and Career Academy are built on a practical philosophy: that MillerKnoll has great talent already inside the organization. Finding that talent, developing it, and aligning it to the right opportunities is key to its success. T
A Typology of State-Supported Work-Connected Learning Programs
States invest in work-connected learning through dozens of distinct funding streams, grant programs, and agency initiatives, often developed independently over time by different administrations and agencies pursuing different goals.
The Workforce of the Future Starts with Adult Basic Education
To create a future-ready workforce system, we must move beyond outdated credentials and analog processes to one that is skills-first, transparent, data-driven, and aligned with the evolving needs of workers, educators, and employers.
Foundational Skills: Early Insights from Employers and Providers
This publication examines how fragmented skills, credentialing, and workforce data systems limit the potential of skills-based hiring and advancement, and outlines a shared vision for building the interoperable infrastructure needed to create a connected skills ecosystem that benefits workers, employers, educators, and governments.
Videos
How Tax Policy Can Help Employers Expand Access to Learning
In this interview, Chelsea Miller of Upskill America speaks with Nick Greif of InStride about how employers can design education benefits that are more accessible, strategic, and aligned with workforce goals.
Adult Working Learners Vote With Their Feet: What Employers Are Learning About Foundational Skills
Putting people at the center of the systems we are building means accepting that career paths are rarely linear. It requires us to build infrastructure that accommodates life transitions, recognizes informal learning, and values a worker’s agency over their own data.
