Laboratory of the Workforce Imagination

Mindy Feldbaum is the Founder and CEO of More Labs and brings more than 20 years of workforce development leadership spanning the public, private, philanthropic, and nonprofit sectors. She has designed and scaled national education and workforce initiatives and innovations, cultivated multi-sector strategic partnerships, secured hundreds of millions of dollars to grow workforce programs, and advanced technology solutions that accelerate economic opportunity for low-income workers while building the skilled talent pipelines and workforces for employers. She is deeply committed to dismantling the structural and systemic barriers that limit economic opportunity and mobility for low-resourced people, families, and communities and helping to architect large-scale solutions and innovations that create lasting change.

As Vice President of Economic Mobility at AARP Foundation, she provided strategic direction for four major workforce programs serving more than 40,000 older workers annually. As Founder of The Collaboratory, she co-led the Transformative Change Initiative, partnering with over 200 community colleges to scale education and sector- based innovations. At FHI 360, she built and led the organization’s workforce portfolio, including a National Science Foundation study on community college employment outcomes, and co-authored publications on green jobs such as The Greening of Corrections and Going Green: The Vital Role of Community Colleges in Building a Sustainable Future. At the U.S. Department of Labor, she managed four major discretionary grant programs totaling $2 billion in workforce development investments, and at the U.S. Conference of Mayors, she advocated on behalf of big city mayors on education and workforce legislation and national initiatives.