Session 13: Human Capital

The panel will discuss whether today’s educational policies are adequately geared to developing the kind of labor force our nation needs in the future. Where do we need to invest in human capital? Immigration and offshoring play roles to the extent that some of the jobs require a global labor pool. Learn what CEOs want for the 21st century labor force and how to train tomorrow’s workforce to adapt to a digital world and the skills that are needed in a conceptual workplace.

Speaker Materials

Linda Barrington presentation

John Tarnoff presentation

Speakers

Linda Barrington
The Conference Board

Linda Barrington is Labor Economist, Research Director at The Conference Board.

Barrington directs workforce and human resources research as Research Director of the Management Excellence Program of The Conference Board. Her current research projects include benchmarking workforce diversity, analysis of the relationship between productivity and workforce diversity, and assessing issues surrounding the maturing worker and other workforce challenges.

Barrington has authored several Conference Board publications including: CEO Challenge, 2004: The Top 10; Executive Action Report: Is Leadership a Luxury?; Does A Rising Tide Lift All Boats? America’s Full-Time Working Poor Reap Limited Gains in The New Economy; and Perspectives on a Global Economy: Are Poor Nations Closing the Gap in Living Standards? Her recent presentations include: “Global Workforce Trends: Demographics and U.S./E.U. Productivity”; “Technology, Opportunities and Challenges of the New Economy: Global Position, Domestic Concerns”; “Workforce Diversity and Productivity: Analyzing Employer-Employee Data”; “Census 2000: A Snapshot of America”; “Changing Demographics—Poverty Risk for Full-time Workers in the New American Economy”.

Barrington has appeared on numerous news programs including National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, NBC Nightly News and Bloomberg.

Before joining The Conference Board, Barrington was on the faculty of the Economics Department of Barnard College of Columbia University. There she published several articles on gender economics, poverty measurement and economic history. Barrington received her B.S. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, and her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois.

John Tarnoff
DreamWorks Animation

John Tarnoff is Head of Show Development at DreamWorks Animation. This Production department oversees a number of future-oriented agendas for the company, including the company’s internal artistic enrichment program, its outreach program to schools in the CG animation space, and developing strategies for the “front end” of the animation process, including visual development, design and storyboarding .

John has been in the motion picture business for 25 years as a producer and studio executive, supervising films such as Diner, Pink Floyd: The Wall, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and The Power of One during the 80s and early 90s. He branched into multimedia, writing and producing CD-ROM games in the early 90s, including War Games, based on the MGM movie, and Big Brother, based on George Orwell’s classic novel, 1984.

Prior to joining DreamWorks, from 1996 until 2002, John was the co-founder and C.E.O. of Talkie, Inc an internet technology company that pioneered online conversational animated characters for marketing, brand building, lead generation, customer service and training. To develop its products, the company created proprietary artificial intelligence and behavioral animation software. Clients included Sprint, Intel Corporation, Progressive Insurance and Scottrade. John holds a B.A. from Amherst College in Massachusetts and a M.A. in Applied Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. He was raised in New York and Paris and is a published still photographer.

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