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Center Board of Directors Meet and Welcome Jack Clark as New Executive Director

Posted December 2014

The Board of Directors of the Transportation Learning Center met on December 5, 2014 in Washington DC. This Board Meeting comes amid public transportation and government leaders’ increasing recognition of the urgency of the frontline workforce challenge and growing respect for the value of the Center’s standards-based joint solutions. 

After fifteen years serving as the Executive Director of the Center, Brian J. Turner has decided to move to a less than full time role.  With Board support, Brian will continue serving on the Center’s Board of Directors and focusing his staff time on program development and building a permanent frontline workforce training capacity within the pending reauthorization of the Surface Transportation Act. The Board paid tribute to Brian for his leadership in founding and sustaining the Center.

The Board of Directors unanimously approved Jack Clark, the Interim Executive Director, as the Center’s new Executive Director.  Jack has thirty years of senior level experience in workforce development. In his thirteen year tenure with the Center, he has functioned as the chief operating officer and worked on projects and publications related to career ladders, national training standards, joint labor-management programs, and serves as primary liaison to Workforce Investment Boards and the publicly-funded workforce development system.  Prior to joining the Center, Jack served eleven years as deputy director for policy and planning at the Mayor’s Office of Jobs and Community Services in the Economic Development and Industrial Corporation of Boston, where he managed state, local and federally-funded projects.

With the Board’s leadership and support, the Center will continue to spearhead standards-based training systems through existing training consortia for elevator-escalator and signals technicians, a new proposed consortium for rail car technicians and transportation core competencies curriculum, and implementation of registered apprenticeship for public transportation frontline jobs.