Save The Date: Connecticut Learns and Works Conference Friday, May 11

Kenneth Gronbach, president of KCG Direct, LLC. and author of the best selling book The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm, will serve as the keynote speaker at the 18^th annual Connecticut Learns and Works Conference taking place Friday, May 11.  Labor Department Commissioner Glenn Marshall and Dr. Robert A. Kennedy, President of the Board of Regents for Higher Education, will deliver opening remarks.

Gronbach, of Haddam, a nationally-recognized marketing expert who regularly provides counsel to Fortune 500 companies as well as large and small privately held businesses throughout the United States, is also the author of Common Census: The Counter-Intuitive Guide to Generational Marketing, and co-author of Decades of Differences: Making it Work, which he wrote with Bonnie Hagerman.

Running from 8:30 a.m. to 3 pm, the conference will be held at the Water’s Edge Conference Center in Westbrook.

Aimed at educators, counselors, employment and training specialists and business people interested in career and workforce development issues, this year’s Connecticut Leans and Works Conference, titled “Transitioning for a Restructured Economy,” is sponsored by the State Departments of Labor, Education and Economic and Community Development, the Connecticut Community College System, the Connecticut Career Resource Network, the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities and the Connecticut Learns and Works Committee.

It will feature a series of morning and afternoon workshops including: 21^st Century Progressive Manufacturing Practices, Personal Finance from College to Career – How to Get the Information to Stick, Using Labor Market Information for Career Planning, Create Your Own Job – Start a Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Mentoring Programs Developed by Youth Leaders, Jobseekers: Coping with Stress While Creating a Future, Public Health Career Pathways Offer Choices and High School Internship  Programs –Opportunities and Challenges.

There is a $75 registration fee for the event, which includes a continental breakfast and a buffet luncheon.  Individuals interested in registering or learning more about the Conference can check online at www.ctlearnsandworks.org.