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Sheila Maguire, Vice President of Labor Market Initiatives, Public/Private Ventures
As vice president for labor market initiatives and director of P/PV's New York office, Ms. Maguire oversees a variety of research, evaluation and demonstration projects focused on programs that assist unemployed and low wage workers to gain skills and access to living wage jobs. These include the Alternative Staffing Demonstration, New York City Sectors Initiative and the Sectoral Employment Impact Study.
Ms. Maguire joined P/PV in 1999 to launch the Working Ventures' initiative, which strives to improve the practice of workforce development by creating accessible reports and guides and offering dynamic training workshops and conferences. Prior to coming to P/PV, Ms. Maguire worked for Essex County College (ECC)-a community college serving downtown Newark and the surrounding Essex County towns-where she founded and directed the Training, Inc., program-one of a consortium of employment and training programs operating in seven cities. She was also responsible for customized training for employers, short-term job training programs, and welfare-to-work initiatives. At ECC Ms. Maguire developed sector specific certificate programs that combined credit and non credit courses providing skills for short term employment and the start of a college career.
Before coming to the United States, Ms. Maguire worked in community development in India, Italy and Britain. Ms. Maguire is the author of the Working Ventures reports Surviving, and Maybe Thriving, on Vouchers, Locally Grown: Key Strategies for Expanding Workforce Services and the video and staff training guide Hard Work on Soft Skills: Creating a "Culture of Work" and the training curriculum Working With Employers: Skills and Strategies for Job Development Success.
She holds a BA in adult learning from the Gallatin Division at New York University and a master of science in organizational development from American University.
