Our Workplace Future — Part 2 with Vince Kimura

Vince Kimura is back for Part 2 of our conversation on the future of work and this one goes even deeper into what's actually broken in how we train, hire, and lead people, and what it'll take to fix it.

Vince is a workforce development leader here in Hawaiʻi, currently building Future Harvest, a new skilled-trades and agriculture-focused training program at Leeward Community College, and a recent finalist for the Workforce Development Heroes award. In this episode, we get into:

Why a 71% turnover rate in the restaurant industry isn't a “restaurant problem” it's a leadership and culture problem

The real reason Costco holds onto employees (about 3% turnover) while Sam's Club/Walmart doesn't (20%+) and it's not the paycheck

Why “employees don't quit over salary, they quit over bad managers” keeps showing up in the data

The Triple Helix model how government, industry, and academia actually have to work together to move workforce development forward

Vince's honest, evolving take on AI: an equalizer, a disruptor, and like the internet before it something we're all still learning how to live with

Why training designed for today's job is already behind, and what it means to design for the job that exists 10–20 years from now

Succession planning, mentorship, and why leadership can't be taught in a classroom

Vince's “magic wand” vision for what workforce development in Hawaiʻi and beyond could look like in the next few years

This is Part 2 of our ongoing conversation with Vince on workforce development. [Link to Part 1 here]

Connect with Vince Kimura on LinkedIn he loves connecting with people who want to talk workforce development, mentorship, or just need a hand leveling up: [Vince's LinkedIn URL here]

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