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Articles by Deanna Mulligan
Disrupting Ourselves
At Guardian, we’ve seen the value of investing in employee training firsthand. There are many ways in which data and artificial intelligence (AI) are upending the insurance industry. And as the CEO of a company with a long legacy, I’ll be the first to tell you: It’s a good thing. After all, innovation is the only way we’ll survive. That’s why we are constantly searching for ways to disrupt ourselves.
Coming Together Again, CEOs of the World's Largest Companies Met Virtually to Discuss the Evolution of the Workplace
December 7, 2020, New York /3BL Media/ — With the U.S. grappling to determine a path forward towards recovery and stability, 10 leading corporate CEOs gathered virtually with Deanna Mulligan, Board Chair, Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, for Chief of Executives for Corporate Purpose’s© (CECP) CEO Virtual Roundtable Series. This closed-door roundtable focused on the evolution of work and trends CEOs need to know related to reskilling, retraining, and education.
Closing the Technical Skills Gap: An Investment in the Future
Skip to content In a time marked by rapid acceleration, it’s workers who are falling behind. We’re facing a growing skills gap. The experience and expertise that created today’s workforce haven’t prepared us for the needs of tomorrow, and the gap poses a long-term threat to productivity and competitiveness.
The Science Behind Brand Culture Success
In June 2018, after three days of intense competition and only a single event to go, the Women’s NCAA National Outdoor Track and Field Championship title remained up for grabs. The top three teams were separated by less than ten points. Sitting in third place, the University of Southern California Trojans were still in the running, but their path to victory was narrow. To win they needed nothing short of a first-place finish in the final event of the meet, the 4 × 400-meter relay.
Putting People First-Really
The idea that people are important to a company’s success is well understood in the business community. A cursory search through Fortune, Forbes or Harvard Business Review turns up thousands of articles indicating that business leaders are looking for better ways to hire, retain and utilize top talent. Yet research shows that many companies are drastically underinvesting in their workforce. Of course, the problem isn’t that corporate America is malicious.
Put People First
Businesses exist for people, whether the customers they serve, the workers they employ or the communities they enrich. They have the responsibility to provide not just valuable products and services but a stable work environment and access to the American dream. No matter how advanced technology becomes, human beings are the beating heart of any enterprise. And businesses cannot succeed in the long term unless their people do.
How To Partner With Schools To Close The Skills Gap
Building partnerships of any kind can be challenging and labor intensive. Employer-educator partnerships are no exception. Here’s how we approached it. Early in my tenure as CEO, I wanted to align Guardian’s philanthropic work more closely with the needs of both our business and our communities. We wanted to help people become more financially independent, and we knew that community colleges would become an important investment.
Insuring the Future of Work (SSIR)
Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close the Skills Gap Deanna Mulligan 280 pages, Columbia Business School Publishing, 2020 Buy the book » Tech companies and their customers report that the coronavirus crisis has significantly accelerated digital transformations across the public and private sectors. Remote work, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence are gaining usage at lightning speed. This means the urgency of re-skilling and upskilling the workforce has also intensified.
Retaining Good Employees Is Tougher Than Ever, but Offering Paid Family Leave Can Help
One university may have the best COVID testing operation in the U.S.—and tests students twice a week
We have the tools to reskill for the future. Where is the will to use them?
By 2030, 210 million people around the world are expected to change occupation. That's equivalent to the current population of Brazil, or 40% of the European Union. Why is this happening? Labour disruption, which is caused by a number of forces including industrialization, globalization, digitization and automation. Up to 800 million workers worldwide are at risk of labour disruption between now and 2030.
Businesses have a lot to lose in tunnel stalemate | Crain's New York Business
As Texas, Puerto Rico and Florida are struggling to come back from the devastation of recent hurricanes, here in New York we recall our own extreme weather experience with Superstorm Sandy. Five years later, we have not fully recovered from its devastation, despite billions of dollars of public and private investment in recovery and rebuilding. Nor has much of our city’s infrastructure been improved to avoid the same catastrophe from happening again.
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