Dan Salemson
Managing Director, Digital Learning and Technology, Workforce Professions Training Institute
Dan has provided workforce and youth development consulting to a range of governmental and non-profit organizations since 2010, with a special focus on working with job seekers who have criminal histories. From 2006 until 2010, he served as senior Training & Projects Manager for Workforce Professionals Training Institute, where he developed and delivered training workshops and customized technical assistance on every area of workforce development to thousands of workforce practitioners from hundreds of non-profit, for-profit and government entities in New York City and beyond.
From 2004-2006, Dan served as Director of Workforce Development for the Midtown Community Court, an official branch of the New York State Court System, overseeing the court’s on-site employment preparation program that connected hundreds of formerly incarcerated individuals to employment annually. Prior to entering the workforce development field, he worked as an Academic Technology Specialist for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, helping professors integrate digital tools into their courses, and retains a strong interest in the potential of technology to broaden opportunity and lift people out of poverty. He completed the year-long Public / Private Ventures Workforce Leaders Academy in 2006.
Dan has authored numerous curricula and guides around creating opportunities for job seekers with barriers to employment, including WPTI’s Getting the RAP Down: Employment Strategies for New Yorkers with Criminal Records (2010).