ACTIVATEWORK - Key Persons

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• Manager

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• Member of the INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD
• Retired US West

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• Recruitment & Admissions Manager

ActivateWork's world-class IT skills training is provided by our partner Per Scholas. Per Scholas is a national organization that has been advancing economic mobility for more than 25 years. Through rigorous training, professional development, and robust employer connections, they prepare individuals traditionally underrepresented in technology for high-growth careers in the industry. Per Scholas partners with leading employers to build more diverse talent pools, directly connecting our graduates to new career opportunities at businesses ranging from Fortune 500 companies to innovative startups. With campuses in 22 cities, Per Scholas has trained more than 16,000 individuals in tech skills, building bridges to careers in technology. To learn more, visit PerScholas.org and follow them on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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• Member of the INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD

Bolanle Oladimeji had many long nights and many moments of doubt while participating in ActivateWork's 15-week network support training program. But she refused to give up.

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• Member of the BOARD

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• Manager of Coaching
• Talent Director, Managing Recruiting

Dulcy is ActivateWork's talent director, managing recruiting and coaching services. In a variety of past positions, she has consistently walked with people as they learn about themselves and engage in the world around them. She began her career at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship where she developed leaders, aided as they crossed cultures (whether across the Pacific or across town), and helped young adults transition into adulthood. She has held many positions during and since, developing her into a jack-of-all-trades and an expert on what it takes to build a career in all areas and climates. Most recently, she managed client onboarding for new banking relationships at KeyBank. Weaving together all of her experiences, her passion is in developing people and restoring what is fractured in this world.

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• Member of the INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD
• Retired Accenture

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• Senior Director

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• Member of the BOARD

Before becoming the CEO of the Colorado Technology Association (CTA), Frannie spent 18 years with IBM and served as the IBM Senior Location Executive for Denver. As a public sector, healthcare, and life sciences sales leader for the western region, she was responsible for growing the IBM portfolio within the territory. She has over 10 years of sales management and leadership experience with regional high-performance teams, industry verticals have included higher education, state and local, healthcare, and telecommunications.

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• Member of the INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD

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• CEO
• FOUNDER
• Member of the BOARD
• Member of the Leadership Team
• Founder and CEO of Activate

Helen is the founder and CEO of ActivateWork. ActivateWork's mission is to connect diverse, qualified talent to leading employers through rigorous skills training, community resources, and professional and life skills coaching. ActivateWork is the culmination of Helen's past for-profit and nonprofit experience, harnessing the power of the marketplace to achieve profound social impact. By moving individuals to sustained economic mobility and professional success, ActivateWork creates triple wins for job seekers, employers, and the community. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Helen is a believer in and the embodiment of the American Dream. But the American Dream - a life of flourishing - is elusive, as generational poverty becomes the default for too many men and women from underrepresented populations. ActivateWork bridges the gap between individual potential and realized success by matching and placing individuals into self-sustaining careers and through intensive coaching of personal, professional, and financial skills. ActivateWork seeks not only to advance economic and professional success but to transform lives through the learning and mastery of new habits, mindsets, and disciplines. Helen is a 20-year veteran of the financial industry. She was the portfolio manager of the flagship Janus Worldwide Fund, Janus Overseas Fund, and related assets totaling approximately $50 billion at Janus Capital, a mutual fund company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. She also served as managing director of investments, heading up the 100-person research and investment arm of Janus Capital, encompassing equities, fixed income, money market, and trading. In 2018, Helen was selected as one of the Denver Business Journal's Outstanding Women in Business for her leadership at ActivateWork (previously Activate Workforce Solutions). In 2021, she was awarded the Colorado Technology Association APEX Awards Talent Champion of the Year for launching ActivateWork's tuition-free technology training and professional development program to create equitable paths in IT for individuals seeking careers and employers seeking talent. Helen Young Hayes is the founder and CEO of ActivateWork and a leading force in Colorado's Inclusive Economy Initiative. With an impressive portfolio of titles, Hayes started the organization in 2016 to help connect underrepresented populations with full-time, full-benefit careers in their communities. Hayes has been a lifelong trailblazer. As a child of Chinese immigrants in the Mississippi south, she was the first Asian American girl to graduate her high school, the first of her family to attend and graduate from an Ivy League school, and the first Asian American woman to manage a global multi-billion dollar fund during her time at Janus Henderson. Since then, Hayes has dedicated the second half of her career to building paths to life-changing careers for her Denver community. Hayes strongly believes that talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. She and her team started ActivateWork with the vision to activate individuals into realizing their fullest potential through the dignity of work. "Businesses have forgotten that the jobs they create and the wealth that is created through those jobs is one of the most potent forces of social good." Hayes and her team encourage employers to rebuild the Colorado economy to make it work for people from all communities and backgrounds.

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• Member of the BOARD
• Founder of Thirst Matters

Jennifer is the founder of Thirst Matters, a human resources and talent development consultancy for nonprofits. Jennifer's passions are talent assessment and people development, diversity initiatives, culture excellence, and spiritual formation. Jennifer combines a deep knowledge of human resources with a heart for the advancement of under-resourced individuals. Her previous roles include Corporate Manager, Walgreens, where she was responsible for IT recruiting and diversity initiatives; HR Manager at Willow Creek Community Church; and Director of Midwest Recruitment for CBSI.

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• Member of the INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD
• Governor 's Office of Information Technology

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• Chief Operating Officer
• Managing Director
• Member of the Leadership Team
• President

Kathryn began her career at Accenture consulting for large financial service companies to streamline small business lending processes and to build software applications to increase productivity. For the past 20 years, she has worked in the nonprofit sector both in Winter Park, running the Grand Foundation and in Denver at Rose Community Foundation. Kathryn has spent the last 8 years in education, most recently focused on improving the quality of early care and education as President and CEO of Qualistar Colorado. Kathryn is a Leadership Denver member from 2012, a 2019 Buell Early Childhood Leadership Fellow, and a 2021 Leadership Foundation Civic DNA Fellow. She is a founding board member of the Colorado Inclusive Economy movement and the Colorado Equitable Economic Mobility Initiative. Kathryn received a B.A. in Economics from Middlebury College and a certificate in Corporate Social Responsibility from Boston College. Kathryn is the rare combination of a dynamic, decisive leader and a warm, authentic relator. She's both creative and adept in her thinking style and a relentlessly productive hands-on project manager. Kathryn delivers exceptional results, never sacrificing humor and wit and warmth along the way. She is an avid lifelong learner and a compassionate and inclusive leader. Kathryn has worked tirelessly throughout her career to address issues such as income disparity, and unequal access to education that often prevent communities from thriving. She has raised millions and formed alliances across government, private business and the nonprofit sector to develop creative solutions to these challenges. Every day, she strives to build better, more equitable processes and systems to allow individuals - regardless of their income or color of their skin - to succeed.

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• Chief
• Officer
• Chief Engagement Officer

Linda  is the chief engagement officer at ActivateWork. Linda built her career developing business engagement for mission-based organizations seeking to advance changes in areas ranging from leadership and workforce equity to the environment and access to transformational thinking. Linda comes to ActivateWork following her experience at WorkLife Partnership, a nonprofit that helps frontline workers who are struggling to make ends meet. Linda brings a fierce commitment to supporting workers and their families in their journeys to upward freedom and mobility through the dignity of work and connection to their community.

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• Executive Assistant
• Manager of Operations

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• Executive Assistant
• Office Administrator

Liz is the executive assistant and Salesforce administrator at ActivateWork. Lizbeth is a seasoned office administrator with over 20 years of experience in various organizations across the Department of Defense (DoD). Lizbeth joined ActivateWork as executive assistant and quickly rose to take on Salesforce administration responsibilities. Her duties include scheduling, correspondence, information technology assistance, development of Salesforce page layouts, custom objects, visual force pages, managing user profiles, generating security tokens, and validation rules. She has held positions in finance, contracting, IT help desk, security forces for DoD installations, and public affairs. Lizbeth received her Bachelors in IT System Management at the University of Miami, Florida. She is now pursuing her Master's in business administration. During her career of excellence, she was recognized and awarded 5+ annual awards. She is passionate about increasing efficiency and teaching new employees multiple technologies.

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• Member of the BOARD
• Co - Founder and CEO of the Master 's Apprentice
• Master 's Apprentice

Luis is the Co-founder and CEO of The Master's Apprentice, a professional training program for young people seeking family-sustaining careers in the construction trades. Previously, Luis was the Executive Director of Save Our Youth. Since 1994, Save Our Youth has been a mentoring and youth development program in Denver, serving thousands of at-risk young Coloradans. A social worker by training, Luis is one of the preeminent experts on urban poverty and leadership development in Denver.

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• Member of the BOARD

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• Member of the INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD

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• Member of the INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD

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• Manager of Career Development

Randy Cordova graduated this spring from ActivateWork powered by Per Scholas with his IT Support certification. Randy had been interested in tech all his life but only became involved in the field in recent years. He had previously worked a variety of jobs, including construction, plumbing, and customer service. While pursuing a bachelor's degree in computer information systems, Randy realized that his education was not actually providing him with the experience he needed to secure a job. All of the jobs Randy looked at also required specific certifications he wanted to earn, but he found it difficult to find the motivation to pursue them alone. Randy joined ActivateWork's IT Support cohort and found it to be exactly what he needed. Randy credits the structure and discipline provided by a classroom setting and the support from his colleagues and the team at ActivateWork for helping him complete the course. He enjoyed the diversity of his cohort and was overwhelmed by the support that the program provided for him. "The whole program - the professional development, the mock-interviews - it gave me the confidence that I needed," Randy recalled. "It changed the way that I think. Instead of being intimidated, I had confidence, and I had a whole team of people helping me with what I needed. Doing [ActivateWork] was probably one of the best choices I ever made." Since graduating, Randy has begun working full-time as an IT service desk analyst at Centura Health. He is interested in potentially pursuing Networking, Cloud Support, and Cybersecurity certifications and is currently taking an alumni NET+ course through ActivateWork. "I feel like my path is on the right track for everything I need to do, so I'm very excited," Randy reflected. "My confidence is up! This was a great opportunity. My whole cohort was so intelligent, and the teachers were great. I think this really changed my life."

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• Member of the BOARD
• Secretary of the Board

Scott serves as Innovate+Educate's National and State Strategist, focusing on the development and implementation of skills-based hiring models. Prior to his role with Innovate+Educate, Scott worked for Accenture, serving as the Executive Director of the Accenture Foundation and previously leading the implementation, operation, and maintenance of large computer applications and business process outsourcing activities for many of Accenture's clients.

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• Member of the INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD