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About Workforce Board Lehigh Valley

Who We Are

The Workforce Board Lehigh Valley is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that serves employers throughout the Lehigh Valley by:

  • Funding employment and training services to help Lehigh Valley employers access the talent they need to be competitive
  • Establishing relationships with businesses to help better understand their needs
  • Developing effective solutions to enable the Lehigh Valley workforce to find work, and be prepared to work
  • Using CareerLink® to connect employers to workforce talent and career seekers to jobs while maintaining the highest standard and accountability for these investments

We aim to establish a workforce system that stands in stark contrast to the traditional/historical transaction-based model. Our goal is to shake things up and create integrated locations and a unified structure and process of proactive, transparent, and effective job seeker and business services, orchestrated by a seamless collaboration of talent development and support agencies.

Bottom line: The Workforce Board Lehigh Valley assures that the employment, training, labor market services, and data you receive through our PA CareerLink® Lehigh Valley workforce delivery system, are professional, comprehensive, and on-target.

Vision

Lehigh Valley has a world-class global workforce.

Goals

Learn about the goals that we set here at Workforce Board Lehigh Valley

Mission

Our Mission is a private-sector led, integrated, regional workforce system of economic and workforce development, education, employers and community partners working in collaboration with data experts such as the PA Center for Workforce Information and Analysis and the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission to ensure the Lehigh Valley workforce system has strategically positioned services for a universal population with a focus on those most in need to ensure Lehigh Valley has an educated and skilled workforce that meets business and industry’s global labor demands.

Challenges

Learn about challenges that we face here at Workforce Board Lehigh Valley

Chief Elected Officials

Phillips Armstrong headshot

Phillips Armstrong

Lehigh County Government Center
17 South Seventh Street
Allentown, PA 18108-2400

Lamont G. McClure headshot

Lamont G. McClure

Northampton Government Center
669 Washington Street
Easton, PA 18042