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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowCarol D’Amico is stepping down as president and CEO of Conexus Indiana and taking part-time consulting duties at the Indiana Department of Education.
D’Amico will continue in a part-time senior role at Conexus, a work-force development group focused on manufacturing and logistics.
Steve Dwyer, former chief operating officer of Rolls-Royce Corp., will replace D’Amico on March 9.
In a statement, D’Amico described her new roles as complementary.
“There are nearly a million Hoosier workers who lack more than a high school education, shutting themselves out of opportunities to get ahead in the knowledge-based economy,” she said. “It’s a simple supply-and-demand issue, and it will take both an aggressive approach by the public sector and the work of organizations like Conexus to address it.”
Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett announced this morning at a meeting of the State Board of Education that D’Amico will serve as an educational consultant to the department.
“Dr. D’Amico has unique skills and abilities that will help us revitalize our approach to career and technical education and fulfill our goal to develop the best high school-to-college/workforce program in the country,” Bennett said in a statement.
D’Amico is a former assistant secretary for the office of vocational and adult education at the U.S. Department of Education. She has also served as the executive vice president at Ivy Tech.
D’Amico holds a doctorate in leadership and policy studies from Indiana University, where she also earned a master’s degree in adult education and organizational development.
D’Amico has led Conexus since 2007. Dwyer has been on the organization’s executive committee since then and recently became the organization’s executive director.
“Indiana has to do whatever it takes to build a workforce with the technical skills to keep us globally competitive in manufacturing and logistics,” Dwyer said in a statement. “As Baby Boomer workers start retiring in greater numbers and the economy picks up, this issue will turn into a crisis unless we act.”
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