Nick's experience
Crafting grants and funding strategy
During the Biden-Harris Administration, Nick oversaw every dollar spent by DOL on workforce, collaborating with each program to make it easier to apply, improve performance, and get more workers to good jobs. He also advised cross-federal partnerships that harnessed $280 billion to create infrastructure and manufacturing jobs that help workers get ahead through project labor agreements, community benefits plans, and expanded access to childcare.
Implementing skills-based hiring, apprenticeship, and other Good Jobs strategies
Nick led development of the Skills-First Starter Kit, a step-by-step workforce guide that gives employers everything they need to start hiring based on skills in fewer than 15 minutes. Nick is a national expert on supportive service strategies, having helped significantly expand federal investment in services needed to help workers complete training. Over three administrations, Nick also worked with DOL's Office of Apprenticeship to help states comply with Registered Apprenticeship regulations and answer pressing questions about program administration.
Building and telling the story of public policies that work
Nick is an experienced reformer renowned for his ability to build and sell well-designed and well-messaged public policies that fix the problems they are meant to solve. Nick has helped build effective, accountable programs addressing some of the most complicated challenges in American life, including the opioid crisis and improving administration of disaster-relief programs. A former investigative reporter with experience at every level of government, Nick also has built libraries of thought leadership that unpack knotty policy challenges and move stakeholders by making them feel seen.
About Nick
Nick Beadle is the former Chief of Staff for Workforce and Communications for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Good Jobs Initiative. Nick led the Department’s strategy to rethink every grant dollar to ensure workers reach better quality jobs. He also helped create place-based initiatives in Phoenix, Arizona, and Birmingham, Alabama, to build ecosystems that prepared the creation of good jobs in communities with significant federal infrastructure and manufacturing funding.
Prior to his work with the Good Jobs Initiative, Nick developed a first-of-its-kind grant model using workforce dollars to battle the opioid crisis, later adapted by Congress in the bipartisan SUPPORT Act relief package to address the substance-use disorder epidemic. Before entering law school, he was an award-winning investigative reporter covering misuse of government funds and barriers to economic stability in the American South.
A first-generation(ish) college student, he is originally from Greenhill, Alabama, and a graduate of The University of Alabama and the American University Washington College of Law. He serves on The University of Alabama Community Affairs Board of Advisors and founded The Cindi Beadle Memorial Fund at the University of North Alabama.