Explore empowering stories, practical strategies, and inspiring insights that aim to cultivate a more inclusive and equitable workforce, highlighting the importance of embracing fair hiring practices for all.
This summer, LeadersUp Evolve and Equity Unleashed Fellows moved through three connected experiences: a virtual Flourish Fest, an in-person beach convening, and the PolicyLink Summit. Along the way, Fellows built community, explored economic and career empowerment, and strengthened their understanding of the power they hold to shape their futures and the systems around them.
Vision alone will not build an equitable economy. It requires discipline, structure, and a culture to push the work through. At LeadersUp, we frequently discuss systems change in the context of external factors: policies that must change, pathways that need to be configured, and partnerships required to move from intention to impact. However, beneath every external template there is an internal one.
Earlier this year, leaders responsible for connecting young people to education, careers, training, and long-term economic opportunity gathered around the same table with a shared question: how do we stop asking young people to navigate systems that were never designed to work together?
