On Friday, August 29th, the Metro Atlanta eXchange for Workforce Solutions (MAX) hosted MAX Minutes with Jenny Taylor. Taylor, who serves as Chief Mission Officer and Vice President of Career Services for Goodwill of North Georgia, serves as MAX’s board chair, and has been involved with MAX since its inception in 2014. Taylor, a recipient of the inaugural Wendell Dallas Award for Excellence in Leadership Award in 2022, has been a strong advocate and thought leader for our workforce development profession in the Atlanta region and beyond. During this session of MAX Minutes, the MAX leader reviewed who’s who and what’s what in workforce development and lessons she’s learned from her 25 years in the business. Hosting the conversation with Taylor was MAX Vice Chair Dana Inman, President & CEO of the Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency.
During the session, Taylor reviewed the key partners, funders, intermediaries, and other stakeholders who comprise our workforce development ecosystem as well as the dynamic network we know as MAX. She discussed how the intention of MAX has always been to bring people together, to find out what everyone else is doing, and to not reinvent the wheel but explore opportunities for synergy and collaboration in its role as a third-party neutral. Case in point, Taylor noted how once the partners came together, they noticed certain gaps in service delivery especially south of I-20. It became a strategic choice therefore to collectively decide that the next time someone wants to open a new workforce program, to look at the southside and do so in a collaborative manner. Taylor discussed how MAX continues to be all about enhancing, lifting up, and elevating what each member of our workforce ecosystem does so that we can all work together to move things forward from a workforce development perspective.
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ABOUT MAX MINUTES
Launched in 2014, the mission of MAX is to advance economic resilience in the Atlanta region by strengthening connections, collaborations, and practices among workforce developers and organizations engaged in workforce development.
Through our webinar series, MAX Minutes, MAX seeks to bring timely insights to providers, intermediaries, and other partners in workforce. MAX Minutes features talks by key experts in the Atlanta region and beyond on important workforce matters.