Valerie Walker
CEO of the Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BeHEARD), focused on building employer-post-secondary partnerships and expanding work-integrated learning and pathways between education and industry.
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Mar 4, 2026 • 47min
Why Canada needs to rethink its skills system for the modern workforce
Valerie Walker, CEO of BeHEARD, builds employer-postsecondary partnerships. Karen Myers, CEO of Blueprint, measures workforce program impact. Jessica Biga-Wadstein, Pearson’s Canada head, focuses on lifelong learning and skills verification. They discuss shortening education-to-work transitions, demand-driven training, employer-aligned credentials, real-time labour market intelligence, and a national skills infrastructure.
