Strategic Workforce Development for the Light-Based Technology Sector

Join us in pioneering a nationwide approach to workforce development, addressing the growing demands of the optics, photonics, imaging, and laser industries.

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Building Workforce Training Communities

HOLISTIC + STRATEGIC + EQUITABLE

FocusPath LLC is a workforce consulting and educational services company that designs and implements programs to recruit, train, and retain the nation’s next generation skilled workforce – uniting all members of regional ecosystems under a shared strategy that keeps the needs of the community front and center.

FocusPath addresses the workforce development challenge head-on, in a holistic, innovative, and strategic manner based on the belief that only when each contributor to workforce training in a community is operating in its happiest and most efficient and collaborative manner will real change happen.

Workforce Training Community Members

OUR PEOPLE

Next-generation technicians, engineers and scientists

INDUSTRY

Manufacturers and researchers in need of technicians and engineers

EDUCATORS

K-12, CTEs, community colleges & 4-year colleges & research universities

NONPROFIT ORGS

Community agencies providing workforce and career counseling services

COURSE DESIGNERS

Builders of innovative content equally accessible and engaging to all learners

Regional ecosystems are the basis of every workforce development initiative underway today. The ecosystem model requires a lead training provider, an industry cluster representing member companies in need of technicians, and a group of community-based nonprofits and government agencies that provide support services. To work most productively, this model requires all of its contributors to be functioning well on their own, while collaborating seamlessly with each other in an integrated, mutually beneficial way.

The FocusPath approach begins by evaluating the health of each of the members of a workforce training community by asking:

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Is each member of a workforce training community thriving and set up for growth?

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What about their current reality is a barrier to that growth?

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Do the members of the community know how to work together?

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How can the barriers to growth and collaboration be solved?

By answering these questions, building the systems, and fostering a cooperative regional culture, new, best-in-class models can be put in place for training technicians, educating engineers, and recruiting STEM teachers.

FocusPath is committed to doing this work for light-based manufacturing industries – optics, photonics, imaging, and lasers – and then applying these learnings to other advanced manufacturing industry sectors across the nation.