Build skills and grow your career
Looking for career growth or change? View recorded sessions from our third Workforce Development Week, February 6 through 8.
The virtual event highlights Kaiser Permanente’s best of training, upskilling and educational resources. Most sessions are less than 15 minutes.
Go to the Schedule section for webinars and activities led by featured speakers and career experts. Learn how to:
For managers, find resources to strengthen your team and help employees grow their careers.
Meet the workforce planning and development leads at the national level and find contacts in each region. This team of experts is here to help you navigate resources and support employee and management education and training needs.
Find your supporting cast now.
Anticyclonic supercell thunderstorm over the plains, Deer Trail, Colorado
Our workforce planning and development committee aims a mile high to support Colorado team members and managers with education and training. Let us know how we can help you!
Oak tree-lined road in Savannah, Georgia
Our workforce planning and development structure is embedded deeply within our regional Labor Management Partnership work and our utilization rates consistently crush the other regions. Let us know how we can help you crush your career goals!
The National Workforce Planning and Development team has decades of experience supporting labor and management to understand, analyze and address skill gaps to prepare employees for tomorrow’s jobs. Email us if we can help you!
Director, National Workforce Development, Alliance of Health Care Unions; Co-director, Ben Hudnall Memorial Trust
National Program Coordinator, Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions
Vice President, Office of Labor Management Partnership and National Labor Relations Strategy; Interim Management Lead, National Workforce Planning and Development
Senior Workforce Planning Consultant
(Mid-Atlantic
States, Northwest, Washington)
Senior Workforce Planning Consultant
Career
Development
Senior Workforce Planning Consultant
(Colorado,
Georgia, Northern California)
Lead Workforce Planning Consultant
Workforce
of the Future (Hawaii, Southern California)
Aerial panorama of the West coast of Oahu, area of Papaoneone Beach. Hawaii
Aloha! Our workforce planning and development committee loves helping team members grow as we transform our organization. Let us know how we can help you!
Founded in 1729, Baltimore is the second largest seaport in the Mid-Atlantic.
Our region juggles a lot and the workforce planning and development committee is no different. We engage and empower team members to align career goals with operational needs. Let us know how we can help you!
Scenic view of a redwood forest in Northern California
Our workforce planning and development committee strives to build bridges that can help our workforce become more resilient and prepared for workforce changes. Let us know how we can help develop the warrior in you.
Sunset in downtown Portland, Oregon
We take workforce planning and development seriously and have serious fun doing it. We seek to align our work to help teams meet organizational strategy. Let us know how we can help you!
Mount Rainier over Tacoma, Washington, waterfront at dusk
We may be a newly formed team, but we are making strides to help the workforce adapt to the future of health care and changes within Kaiser Permanente. Let us know how we can help you!
Dawn on Manhattan Beach pier in Southern California
Jobs of the future began in our region, and we continue to help teams rise to the challenges of our changing health care landscape. Let us know how we can help you!
Education Trusts
Learning, Mentoring and Business Resource Groups
View the sessions that interest you at any time, as your schedule allows, even after the week is over. Most sessions are prerecorded and less than 15 minutes.
Your professional growth and development is a top priority at Kaiser Permanente. Labor Management Partnership and workforce development leaders share why. View video.
View a recording of our live session. Join Kaiser Permanente senior leaders Laura Long and Ije-Enu Nwosu and George Washington University health workforce equity professor Patricia Pittman. They’ll cover how mentoring can help build a supportive workplace culture and a resilient health care workforce. Get insights into career growth, skill building and health workforce trends.
What are career assessments? Why do people hesitate to use these tools? Ben Hudnall Memorial Trust senior outreach specialist Miguel Reza and lead career development coach Kristin Hovaguimian explain their value. Hear how assessments can transform your career development journey.
MIGUEL REZA ~ BEN HUDNALL MEMORIAL TRUST
KRISTIN HOVAGUIMIAN ~ BEN HUDNALL MEMORIAL TRUST
Are you taking college courses? See how to submit required documents for college course reimbursement. View the video below for a step-by-step guide. Learn more about tuition reimbursement.
Tenisha Cook ~ Tuition Reimbursement
Looking to build your career? Wondering what might be next for you at Kaiser Permanente? Visit our Career Resource Center. The site is a one-stop hub to help you plan, make new connections and get help for commonly asked questions. View the video below to learn more.
All Kaiser Permanente employees can access Skillsoft, Kaiser Permanente’s e-learning library. See how this KP Learn on-demand resource can enhance your skillset. Get the scoop on how Skillsoft is expanding to include new course offerings and leader camps. Jerry Sochor covers how to access and leverage this program. View the video below and download the quick start guide.
JERRY SOCHOR ~ ENTERPRISE LEARNING
Kaiser Permanente's journey toward equity requires active participation from everyone. To empower you on this journey, check out these Belong@KP tools and resources.
Our emotional, psychological and social well-being affects how we think, feel and act. Visit Kaiser Permanente’s Rise&Renew webpage for easily accessible tools and resources to support mental health for yourself, for your team and for your colleagues.
Resources spotlighted on Rise&Renew include:
Do you feel excited and fulfilled at work? Are you pursuing a career that brings you a sense of purpose? Aligning your work with your values can help you focus on what matters most to you. See how you can build a career that aligns with those values. View this workshop led by Ben Hudnall Memorial Trust career development coaches Keri Burns and Sean Combs. Fill out the values-driven worksheet to help identify your values. BHMT is one of 3 Labor Management Partnership-supported education trusts.
KERI BURNS ~ BEN HUDNALL MEMORIAL TRUST
SEAN COMBS ~ BEN HUDNALL MEMORIAL TRUST
What is career development? Find out the differences between a job and career. For employees represented by unions in the Labor Management Partnership, learn how you can work with a career development coach to take charge of your career. View the workshop hosted by Ben Hudnall Memorial Trust’s Vanessa Rubinfeld.
VANESSA RUBINFELD ~ BEN HUDNALL MEMORIAL TRUST
The Health Care Apprenticeship Consortium's medical assistant apprenticeship opens career doors for employees. Find out how you can earn while you learn. Get an in-depth perspective. Employee Patricia Lopez Del Toro shares her story. She talks with Allison Holmes from the SEIU Healthcare 1199NW Multi-Employer Training Fund. The Training Fund is one of 3 Labor Management Partnership-supported education trusts.
PATRICIA LOPEZ DEL TORO ~ MEDICAL ASSISTANT APPRENTICE, WASHINGTON REGION
ALLISON HOLMES ~ SEIU HEALTHCARE 1199NW MULTI-EMPLOYER TRAINING FUND
What if we could devise development experiences that happen in the day-to-day work? And how can managers find time in already overbooked schedules to support their employees’ growth? Explore how using time more effectively and a fresh approach to development increases trust, engagement, teamwork, productivity and innovation. National Leadership Development’s Angie Kutlik and coaching consultant Norma Tenorio talk about achieving career growth while on the job.
ANGIE KUTLIK ~ NATIONAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
NORMA TENORIO ~ HPA CUSTOMER SERVICE
The SEIU-UHW & Joint Employer Education Fund offers eligible members training, tuition help and more. View the first video for an overview of its programs and services. In the second, employees share how using the Education Fund advances their careers. The Education Fund serves Kaiser Permanente workers represented by SEIU unions in California, Colorado and the Northwest Region. It’s one of 3 Labor Management Partnership-supported education trusts.
Spin the Wheel of the Future to learn about the Workforce of the Future and why it matters to you.
Workforce of the Future Examples of New Technology Critical Skills+Exploring career paths is a key step for developing your career. Use our career paths tool to help find your direction. It’s interactive, personalized and available to all Kaiser Permanente employees. View the guide and video below to learn more.
Explore how 3 employees charted unexpected careers. Learn how they rose from entry-level roles to clinical and administrative leaders. Find out what education and training resources are available. Get tips for your journey. View the Kaiser Permanente Washington panel discussion below and videos of the 3 speakers sharing their career stories. Then chart your own course with our career pathway tool.
MELANIE EDWARDS ~ QUALITY IMPROVEMENT CLINICAL CONSULTANT, WASHINGTON REGION
BETSY EDHOLM ~ HR STRATEGY DESIGN CONSULTANT, WASHINGTON REGION
JESSICA SANDHU ~ SENIOR PRACTICE ADVISOR, KP MEDICAL FOUNDATION
KEVIN WRIGHT ~ DATABASE ARCHITECT MANAGEMENT, WASHINGTON REGION
All employees and physicians are encouraged to join the Business Resource Groups (BRGs). See how the BRGs offer inclusive pathways and programs that connect our workforce in meaningful and trusting ways. Learn more about how the BRGs focus on talent development.
MICHELLE LINARES ~ DIRECTOR, NATIONAL EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND DIVERSITY
These new awards honor the top workforce development efforts in the Labor Management Partnership. Here are the initial winners of the Education Partnerships Inspiring Change Awards:
Congratulations to all who participated. The voting was tight in each category. Click on the tabs to see who won.
Spark change! Learn more about growing your career through mentoring. KP Mentoring leader Karen Kaufman and MentorLead’s Ann Tardy discuss job growth with Kaiser Permanente mentor, mentee and mentoring program leader Travis Holter.
TRAVIS HOLTER ~ IT CONSULTANT, KAISER PERMANENTE
KAREN KAUFMAN ~ KP MENTORING
ANN TARDY ~ MENTORLEAD
Growth, resilience, integrity and tenacity. It takes all these characteristics for academic success. Isis Acevedo reveals how. She shares her career journey at Kaiser Permanente, going back to school while working and raising a family. Follow her path from on-call operator to project manager. She talks with the SEIU-UHW Education Fund’s Maggie Newcomb Raine about the power of perseverance. Senior workforce planning and development consultant Nedra Daugherty provides an introduction.
MAGGIE NEWCOMB RAINE ~ SEIU-UHW EDUCATION FUND
NEDRA DAUGHERTY ~ NATIONAL WORKFORCE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Managers play a vital role in career development. Survey results show that many managers need more information about how to support their team’s career development. Get insights in this episode. Three workplace development champions share how they meet this challenge. Hear from Kaiser Foundation Health Plan’s Melissa Carroll, Ashley Green and Rod Waring. Senior workforce planning and development consultant Danielle Pollard hosts the session.
DANIELLE POLLARD ~ NATIONAL WORKFORCE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
MELISSA CARROLL ~ SENIOR LEARNING CONSULTANT, HEALTH PLAN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
ASHLEY GREEN ~ CONSULTANT III, MEMBER RELATIONS, GRIEVANCE, APPEALS AND ABSENCE DOCUMENTATION SERVICES
ROD WARING ~ MANAGER, TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, CONTACT CENTER SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
Looking for the latest trends with in-demand health care professions? Find out more about the education, training and skills needed for these jobs. See what steps you can take.
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As a Kaiser Permanente employee or manager, you have access to many education and training resources. But is there more you need? Help improve your training resources. Take the Training Needs Survey. Your feedback will strengthen education and training programs that support your and your team’s career growth.
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Meet our professionals
Director, National Workforce Development, Alliance of Health Care Unions; Co-director, Ben Hudnall Memorial Trust
National Coordinator, Workforce Planning and Development, Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions
Vice President, Operations, Performance, and Compliance, National Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity
Executive Director, Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions
Chief Advancement Officer, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Fitzhugh Mullan Professor of Health Workforce Equity, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University
Vice President, Labor Management Partnership and Labor Relations, The Permanente Federation
Executive Director, Alliance of Health Care Unions
Senior Vice President, National Labor Relations and Office of Labor Management Partnership
Vice President, Office of Labor Management Partnership and National Labor Relations Strategy; Interim Management Lead, National Workforce Planning and Development
These awards are for Education Partnerships Inspiring Change. They honor the top training efforts in the Labor Management Partnership. View the submissions in 3 categories: Positive Impact, Future Ready and Intrapreneur. From among those 13 videos, cast your vote by February 7 for your favorite. Your vote decides People’s Choice. Judges will decide winners of the other 3 categories.
This category honors training that helped the market and the employees who completed it.
Colorado Medical Imaging Cross Training
Southern California Wound and Ostomy Nurse Training Program
Washington Radiology Cross Training
This category honors training that prepared employees for new skills, credentials or jobs.
Colorado Geriatric Psychology Training
Colorado Medical Lab Technician Apprenticeship
Georgia Lead Lab Assistant Training
Hawaii Sterile Processing Apprenticship
Mid-Atlantic States New Grad Registered Nurse Residency
Southern California Neuro Rehab Training Program
Southern California Optical Dispenser Apprenticeship
Southern California Sterile Processing Apprencticeship
This category celebrates a labor or management market leader vital to a training program’s success.
Which EPIC Award submission is your favorite? Vote here to decide the 2024 People’s Choice for favorite training program.
Comments from the 2022 Workforce Development Week survey
Melanie Edwards
Jessica Sandhu
Kevin Wright
Georgia Lead Lab Assistant Training
Colorado Medical Imaging Cross Training
Southern California Wound and Ostomy Nurse Training Program
Hawaii Sterile Processing Apprenticship
Southern California Neuro Rehab Training Program
Northern California Blood Bank Basics Training
Colorado Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship
Colorado Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship
Northern California Blood Bank Basics Training