Working with the American Medical Association's Center For Health Equity (CHE,) we are committed to refining and managing its equity and innovation framework. Utilizing an international development framework of goals, targets, metrics, and indicators, we are ensuring tight alignment of all efforts to meet the AMA's national health equity goals with Support Management of deliverables; Launching and Managing Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships; Embedding HealthTech & Equity: AI, VC, & Digital Badging.
Braven supports the New York State P-TECH program, Co-created by IBM with streamlining expansion and education innovation. P-TECH is an innovative six-year high school program that prepares students for college and STEM careers in competitive industries. Utilizing a multi-stakeholder approach, we support the P-TECH program with streamlining expansion; developing robust collaborations with public-private partnerships; reimagining workforce development strategies; aligning student curriculum to meet industry needs into the future; and incorporating innovative education technology strategies.
Advising on the general strategic restructuring of the $900 million workforce development eco-system in NYC, we worked with corporate, union, government agencies to create a city-wide apprenticeship strategy to triple the number of private and public-sector apprenticeships by 2023. This effort included the design and implementation planning of the “Apprenticeship Accelerator”, a new start-up government office which launched in 2024.
New York State is rapidly becoming a premier hub for semiconductor manufacturing in the United States, with a goal of producing one in four U.S.-made chips by 2030. Our collaboration with CenterState CEO in Syracuse managed the strategic planning to launch the first training facility dedicated to semiconductor manufacturing and advanced construction for the 50,000 jobs being created over the next decade. Our work outlined the end-to-end strategy and operating model: including aligning all stakeholders around real-time talent demand; building clear, competency-based pathways into priority sectors; designing scalable partnerships, governance, and funding; and establishing the data, performance metrics, and continuous-improvement engine needed to deliver measurable outcomes across regions.