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State Workforce Investment Boards
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New Jersey
| State Board Name: | State Employment & Training Commission |
| Company affiliation: | Johnson & Johnson |
| Appointed: | June, 1989 |
| Chair's contact info: | ph: (609) 633-0605; e-mail; State Board website |
Biography
In addition to his 41-year executive career with Johnson & Johnson (retired Corporate
Vice President of Administration), John J. Heldrich has an exemplary record of public
service to his community, state, nation, and humankind. As Chair of the ‘State
Employment & Training Commission’, John has been influential in restructuring New
Jersey’s employment, training and education system into a unified workforce
investment system. He is the leading spokesperson of corporate New Jersey in forging
the strategic alliance between government and the private sector to build a world-class
workforce.
Chair’s personal goals for New
Jersey’s new state workforce investment system
"In creating Workforce Investment Boards in 1995, Governor Whitman made New Jersey a
national leader by anticipating the broad outlines of the Workforce Investment Act.
Now, this new federal legislation creates an enormous opportunity for us to decisively
change the way New Jersey delivers employment, education and training services."
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