Future Workforce: Minnesota Demographics and What Employers Need to Know

Future Workforce: Minnesota Demographics and What Employers Need to Know

Before we had ever heard of COVID-19, employers were already confronting the ripple effects of long-term demographic trends that produced talent shortages and missing skillsets within the available workforce. Now with COVID-19 and social issues buffeting businesses, owners and executives are left to wonder what the labor force will look like in the coming years and what changes they need to make preparations for the future.

EBITDA Partners is pleased to host a special event featuring our guest, Susan Brower, Demographer for the State of Minnesota and Director of the MN State Demographic Center. Susan will shed light on changes that will impact businesses, providing insights based on long-term projections of population and labor force changes.

Why Attend?

This information is vital to those who need to:

• Develop strategies to find, get, and keep the best possible talent and develop a leadership bench for succession.
• Understand the risks and opportunities associated with the future available labor pool.
• Understand how the risks and opportunities will impact the long-term sustainability of the business and a possible exit strategy.
• And, from this, make decisions about strategic investments for workforce development, process efficiency, and automation.

About Susan Brower

Susan Brower is the Minnesota State Demographer and directs the MN State Demographic Center. Susan became the State Demographer in February 2012. In that capacity, she travels the state talking with Minnesotans about the new social and economic realities that are brought about by recent demographic shifts. Susan’s work applies an understanding of demographic trends to changes in a range of areas including the state’s economy and workforce, education, health, immigration and rural population changes.

Susan joined the State Demographic Center after working as a researcher on the Minnesota Compass project at Wilder Research in St. Paul. Prior to that, she worked at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.

Susan earned her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Michigan, specializing in demography and family sociology. She also holds a master’s degree in public policy from Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.