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Linda Fowler is Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Office of Regional Innovation and Transformation in the Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). She is engaged with a number of agency-wide initiatives, including the management of twelve Federal Agency Partnerships, liaison to the Manufacturing Interagency Working Group on Manufacturing Competitiveness, and the development of multiple Industry Competency Models. As a technical advisor to the Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) initiative, Linda designed and is implementing Communities of Practice (Clean Energy, Biosciences, and Advanced Manufacturing) and oversees eight technology transfer and transition pilots.
Linda was a senior advisor to the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership at the U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology for ten years. MEP is a nationwide network of not-for-profit centers in nearly 350 locations whose sole purpose is to help small and mid-sized manufacturers with business and technical assistance.
Previously, she was a management consultant with Restructuring Associates providing corporate strategic planning, innovative organizational design, and labor relations services to a number of Fortune 100 clients. She was also director of Private Ventures, an entrepreneurship training center and project engineer for AC Spark Plug, a division of General Motors Corporation. She completed her graduate work in Industrial and Labor Relations at the University of Michigan.
