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Small Group Fireside Lunch: People, Profit, and Technology with Barbara Dyer
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In her work with Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), Dyer focuses her attention at the intersection of people, profit, and technology. Previously, as the Executive Director of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative within Sloan, Dyer worked to facilitate the cross-fertilization of ideas about making work work for everyone in the 21st century. In her role as Fellow of the National Academy, Dyer concentrates on work in the public sector, and the ways in which the public sector affects low-wage work on the ground.
Prior to joining the MIT faculty, Dyer was president and CEO of The Hitachi Foundation. Under her leadership, the Foundation was an influential force in bringing focus to the role of business in society. She was instrumental in shaping major national collaborative philanthropic initiatives that received high honors proffered by the Council on Foundations, including the Critical Impact and the Distinguished Grantmaker awards.
Dyer’s extensive career in public policy included serving as special assistant to the Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior; director of policy studies with the Council of Governors’ Policy Advisors; an affiliate of the National Governors’ Association; deputy executive director of the Western Regional Office of the Council of State Governments; and founding director of the National Academy of Public Administration’s Alliance for Redesigning Government. Earlier in her career she served as executive director of a community nonprofit organization in Alameda County, California, and helped to launch an experimental school within a public high school as a teacher in Worcester, Massachusetts.
This event is co-presented by the Sloan People and Organizations Club and the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research. It is the first of three planned small group lunches with people and organizations experts this semester!