Joe Carbone leads The WorkPlace, Inc., an innovative workforce development board which helps people prepare for careers and develops the workforce for employers in Southwestern Connecticut. The WorkPlace, Inc. serves more than 22,000 people and 200 businesses a year in a 20-town region bridging Fairfield and New Haven counties.

With his leadership, The WorkPlace, Inc. has combined the passion of a private not-for-profit with the accountability, innovation, and competitive spirit of a business in order to design and fund expanded services. This drive has resulted in new “value-added” revenue streams (from competitive federal grants, private contributions, and a fee-for-service division) and has led to numerous “R&D” initiatives (national demonstration projects and pilots), expanding the state of the art in workforce development.

Joe is a champion for regional workforce and economic development initiatives (such as WIRED). He emphasizes creating value added through broader collaboration, ensuring that the system invests its resources to serve new constituencies (such as low-wage workers, immigrants, youth, and older workers) and to create an enduring impact.

Joe’s unique perspective grows from his experience working in the private sector (Manager of Government Relations for both Textron and the Allied Signal Corporation.), government (Assistant to the Mayor of New Haven during a decade of major urban redevelopment), and non-profits (The WorkPlace, Inc. since 1996, including its network of partners).

Joe has a B.S. in Economics from Quinnipiac University and lives in New Haven.

To learn more, visit:  www.workplace.org/