Welcome to the

Advanced Manufacturing Learning Community

Current strategies:

Support intermediary organizations (EDCs, Chambers, professional associations, educational institutions, etc.) whose clients and partners include manufacturers in Mid Michigan.  Such support may include (1) creating an inventory of the resources and services offered by these organizations to manufacturers; (2) continuing to highlight, share and foster promising practices throughout the region; (3) improve recruitment strategies for maintaining a qualified workforce.

If you are a manufacturer in Mid Michigan, we'd like to hear what types of resources and services you would find most helpful from associations, chambers, educational institutions, Economic Development Corporations, etc.  Please visit our Resources & Services Discussion Board.

If you are an intermediary who provides support services to manufacturers, please click here to find and share examples of innovative services.

 

Links Detroit Regional Skills Alliance press release   National Career Readiness Certificate   CAR / PALE Report   Click here to view and share Promising Practices in Mid Michigan (including previous presenters at Learning Community meetings) MEDC advanced manufacturing initiatives   U.S. Dept. of Labor advanced manufacturing initiatives

 

Advanced Manufacturing Learning Community Champion

Kathy Conklin is the Learning Communities Champion of Advanced Manufacturing.  Kathy has been Executive Director of Saginaw County Business & Education Partnership for 15 years, past- Chair of the READ organization, Vice-Chair of Tech Prep's Leadership Team, Executive Committee member of Mid Michigan Children's Museum, and member of the Saginaw County's Promise Advisory Board.

Kathy is a graduate of Leadership Saginaw and Vision 2020's 1000 Leaders Initiative. Kathy was selected by National Alliance of Business as the Education Professional of the Year and as Zonta's Woman of the Year. Kathy is a graduate of SVSU and is currently working on her Masters Degree in Quality Management from Eastern Michigan University. She and her husband Tom have four children and three grandchildren.

Kathy invites you to join our efforts and become a change agent for Mid-Michigan!

In a time of limited resources, the Learning Communities highlight and enhance Mid-Michigan’s potential - supporting current projects and resulting in new ideas and shared efforts to promote exemplary practices on a regional scale.  

Your input will enrich Mid-Michigan and its many first-rate businesses, employers, workers, and products.

Please click here to read a more indepth recap of the early development of the Healthcare and Advanced Manufacturing Learning Communities, including a list of participants, "promising practices" presentations and early goals.