This is @Work with Dr. Elizabeth Teagarden. For over a decade, Dr. Teagarden has worked with small to medium enterprises to create more drama free workplaces. Here on the @Work podcast, she speaks with presidents, owners and executives of companies about their unique workforce ecosystems and how they create great places to work.

Dr. Pam Howze is the Principal Consultant with the American Apprenticeship Center and a teaching professor in the master’s program in Workforce Development, as well as the Community college leadership doctoral program at North Carolina State University. She has led Wake Technical Community Colleges efforts to expand apprenticeship and work based learning. She has served as program director for the National Fund for Workforce Solutions.

She was the statewide director of apprenticeship business and veteran services for North Carolina’s Department of Commerce and NC Works and was instrumental in getting a tuition waiver for community college youth who enter a registered apprenticeship while still in high school. Dr. Howes has also worked on apprenticeship and workforce development for private industry, including as chief learning officer at Siemens and also at Merck.

Dr. Pam Howes is our guest today on the At Work podcast.