Center for Workforce and Innovation

This center of focus is to assess the needs of our community’s leadership in developing effective high-level customized training and education to foster the success of our business community. Through this effort we answer the needs of employers of all size businesses to immerse their workforce talent in greater skill development opportunities and community awareness, thereby becoming future community leaders. Creative partner programs assist us with preparing students for future workforce opportunities right here at home.   

(Leadership Daytona, Leadership Daytona Alumni Council, YouScience/VC Schools partnerships, Small Business and Entrepreneurial Training)

Objectives:

• To assess the leadership needs of the community while providing focused training and programs to attract and keep high level talent to the area.  To be the connector of this talent to area organizations.
• To showcase small and medium size businesses and develop opportunities that work to assist in the growth of their business market share.
• To provide support, connections and guidance to entrepreneurial ventures which exhibit the highest opportunity to grow within our region.
• To partner with educational leaders from pre-school through K-12 and post graduate levels to ensure a ready workforce.