Talent Matters: Navigating the Talent Landscape

Description

Overview
Being strategic in recruiting is more important than ever. With constant change now the norm, Flint & Genesee Group designed this program to help area employers anticipate what's next and turn hiring challenges into opportunity.

Join business leaders and HR professionals from around the region to learn about today's biggest talent topics. Covering workforce trends and projections to talent attraction and retention, this event will provide you with strategies to help kickstart a successful 2023.
 
Agenda
8:30-9:00 a.m. Registration and Networking
9:00-10:00 a.m. MEDC Talent Outlook
10:00-10:45 a.m. 40 Under 40 Panel Discussion
10:45-11:15 a.m. Attracting Talent to Flint & Genesee
 
Meet Our Speaker 
Chris Rishko is the director of Talent Solutions at Michigan Economic Development Corporation. There, he is responsible for developing and implementing systems and strategies, in cooperation with agencies across Michigan, to provide a modernized long-term talent pipeline that will assist employers in realizing the workforce objectives they need to be successful.
Prior to his current position, Rishko served as CEO of Great Lakes Michigan Works where he was responsible for the delivery of numerous federal and state workforce development programs across the five-county Great Lakes Bay Region. Additionally, he is a retired Air Force officer with 22 years? experience as an Air Battle Manager in multiple command and control weapons systems.
Rishko holds graduate degrees from Central Michigan University and Northwood University. He and his wife, Sara, live in Midland with their four children.