Massive college debt is a hot-button issue these days. I sat down with Nick Wyman, the CEO of the Institute for Workplace Skills and Innovation and author of “Job U,” to discuss how to better prepare Americans for their future careers. “Really what happened is we suddenly had this massive amount of people going to […]
‘The Lowdown on CTE Down Under’ – Techniques Magazine, USA
For more than a century, vocational education and training (VET), as career and technical education (CTE) is known as in Australia, has been a core tenet of workforce development for the country’s traditionally and heavily industry-centered economy. Respected internationally as a leading exponent of integrated and responsive training, Australia’s VET sector has proven its ability […]
Firefighting Goes Beyond Extinguishing Flames: Inside The Admirable Vocation
by Nicholas Wyman | September 15 | Forbes Firefighters. They are different than the rest of us. While others run away from a burning building, they race toward it. They hold the line against raging wild fires, pull people from burning buildings, and deal with all types of disasters, including floods, traffic accidents, and chemical […]
#Education Curing Pilot Shortage #Forbes
America’s Students Take Flight: How Innovative Education Is Curing The Pilot Shortage By Nicholas Wyman | Forbes | March 18, 2016 Children see glinting planes in the sky and dream of being there, high above the earth, free to travel to distant places. Most of us discard this dream with childhood, however, as there is […]
Stuart Bocking Interviews Nicholas Wyman | Radio 2UE
Monday 22/02/16 University isn’t the only, or best, way to become qualified for the job you want. CEO of the Institute of Workplace Skills and Innovation and author of JOB U, Nicholas Wyman, tells 2UE’s Stuart Bocking – a university degree isn’t essential for success. The notion that university is best pathway to a career, […]
Pragmatic Advice for the Real World
From humble beginnings to a self-made multimillionaire with over $6 billion to date in global product sales and a starring role on ABC’s newest business reality TV show, Shark Tank, Daymond John is the personification of the American Dream. He continues to set standards of excellence while expanding his interests in fashion, branding, marketing, consulting, […]
3 Reasons to Skill Up this National Apprenticeship Week
President Obama has used the launch of the first National Apprenticeship week to shine the spotlight on the value and opportunity that exists with the expansion of modern Apprenticeship. The week, he proclaimed, recognizes the ways “Apprenticeships foster innovation and prosperity”. Without encouragement and support for Apprenticeships, the President said the American worker risks falling […]
How Apprenticeship Will Save the American Economy
TEST President Barack Obama has proclaimed this week – November 1 though November 7 – as National Apprenticeship Week. States the President, “during National Apprenticeship Week, we recognize the ways apprenticeships foster innovation and prosperity, and we recommit to encouraging and supporting those who offer and partake in them.” Apprenticeship is the western world’s oldest […]
Nicholas Wyman tours Medway UTC
Institute for Workplace Skills and Innovation CEO, Nicholas Wyman, yesterday visited Medway UTC (University Technical College) in the UK. Medway UTC, located on the Chatham Waters regeneration site in Chatham Maritime, Kent, is a new secondary school which aims to develop in students the skills that employers require. This new school, which officially opened in […]
Surgical Technologist: A Great Job That Doesn’t Require a College Degree
About two years ago I was staying at a hotel with my family in Wayne, Pennsylvania, just northwest of Philadelphia. My wife and I woke at 4 a.m. to a parent’s worst nightmare: my three-year-old son, James, gasping for breath, and turning blue. I called 911 while my wife carried James down to the hotel […]
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Nicholas Wyman is a speaker and expert on applying real-world solutions to the challenges companies face in finding skilled employees. He is CEO of the Institute for Workplace Skills and Innovation, which develops mentoring programs for corporations and places people in apprenticeship and training programs globally. He has an MBA and has studied at Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government. 
