What GOOD JOBS Solutions does
DESIGNING WORKFORCE FUNDING STRATEGIES
JOBS THAT WORK Solutions offers irreplicable experience in building and funding groundbreaking workforce programs, helping organizations design grants and investments as well and navigate the current public workforce funding landscape.
BUILDING AND COMMUNICATING POLICIES THAT WORK
The world of work is changing rapidly because of artificial intelligence, the increasing cost of college, and career opportunities that didn't exist in previous generations. JOBS THAT WORK Solutions helps clients in both cutting-edge and traditional fields design public policies that work to educate and advocate their causes to policymakers. A good policy doesn't work if no one understands it, so JOBS THAT WORK Solutions partners with clients to assemble plain-language and catchy messaging on what their policy does and why it is the best idea.
FINDING AND IMPLEMENTING THE BIG IDEAS THAT GET MORE WORKING PEOPLE TO GOOD JOBS
JOBS THAT WORK Solutions is designing the big ideas that will change the future of work for the better, assembling partners and funders to provide long-delayed solutions that keep employers from filling jobs that are open and workers from getting jobs that need to be filled.
About the Founder and CEO
Nick Beadle is one of America's top experts on jobs policy, workforce development, and public investment.
Nick spent 11 years at the U.S. Department of Labor, where he last served as Chief of Staff for Workforce and Communications for DOL's Good Jobs Initiative. In this role, Nick oversaw each of the billions of dollars DOL invests each year in workforce programs, and he led a cross-department effort to improve the efficiency and outcomes of DOL's workforce funding. Nick also is an expert on non-college pathways to good jobs, including skills-based hiring, on which he authored a the Skills-First Starter Kit, a best-in-class guide for employers. This guide drew on the expertise and input of a bipartisan group of expert organizations, including employer-advocacy groups and labor unions.
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.