NextFlex Fellows

Emily recently departed her role as Director of Education and Workforce Development at NextFlex to join the Century Foundation where her span of influence has expanded to include policy development that will improve people’s lives in education, health care, and in the workplace. Happily, for us, she will focus on workforce policy for the manufacturing sector, which will enable her to continue to work with NextFlex and the other Manufacturing USA institutes across the country. Under Emily’s leadership, she expanded FlexFactor to 13 states, reached over 15,000 participants through NextFlex workforce programming, and created new education and learning programs that span K-12 to the incumbent workforce.

Not only is Sentinel an important commercial partner with NextFlex and AFRL, but Zach also always answers the call when we need a member to help communicate to important audiences. Here are a few ways that Zach stepped up to participate in the past year: he participated on our thought leadership panel during the Workforce Development Summit at Lorain County Community College, a program supported by the White House and the Department of Labor; he presented Sentinel technology at the DoD meeting held during Innovation Days, and more recently, he participated in an interview with NextFlex for SME Magazine. Zach is not only a strong supporter, but the technology that his company is bringing to commercialization is helping to keep workers safe, both in military and industrial settings.