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Partner:: Compass Summit
Location:: Terranea Resort
Palos Verdes, CA
Event Date:: 10.24.11
Speaker:: Byron Auguste
Tags:: jobs; employment

Summary: THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF JOBS AND THE WORKFORCE

America's Jobs Challenge

Byron Auguste, Director, McKinsey & Company

Compass Summit, a forum for true interaction and exchange, examines some of today's most pressing problems through the lens of global citizenship, recognizing that human ingenuity is an unlimited resource. Guided by NPR's Ira Flatow, an intimate group of some of the world's best thinkers and doers convened along the rugged Palos Verdes coastline on Oct 23-26, 2011 at Terranea Resort to engage in meaningful conversation, ask questions, and challenge ideas -- we invite you to join in the conversation.

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Byron Auguste

Byron Auguste is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company in Washington D.C. He works primarily in the fields of high technology, information- and services-based businesses, education, and economic development. Mr. Auguste also serves as Director of McKinsey's Social Sector Office, which works with institutions of the private, public, and non-profit sectors worldwide to address major societal challenges. He serves on the board of Hope Street Group, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Yale University, and was appointed in 2010 to the White House Council for Community Solutions.

He is a co-author of numerous reports on US competitiveness, including 'An Economy That Works: Job Creation and America's Future', 'Growth and Renewal in the US: Retooling America's Economic Engine', 'Changing the Fortunes of America's Workforce: A Human Capital Challenge', 'The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools', and 'Winning by Degrees: The Strategies of Highly Productive Higher Education Institutions'.

Byron holds a B.A. in economics and political science from Yale University and a M. Phil. and D. Phil. in economics from Oxford University, and worked as an economist prior to McKinsey.