Using Employer Insights to Build and Improve Allied Health Education Programs
Tuesday, August 5 | 12 p.m. ET | Live on Zoom
Join our webinar to learn from employers on how to effectively prioritize your investments in allied healthcare education programs. Jenna Fisher from Ascend Learning and Britt Black from AdventHealth will join the webinar to share their perspective on how they prepare and hire students for the real-world. We will also incorporate insights from NHA's 2025 Industry Outlook report and delve into the top healthcare trends and challenges healthcare employers are facing in 2025.
Gain a comprehensive understanding of what employers are looking for in allied health professionals, including the skills and traits that lead to success in these roles. Our experts will discuss the daily realities of allied health professionals and provide actionable strategies to align your educational offerings with industry demands. This webinar will equip you with the knowledge to ensure your program is teaching to the most in-demand skills and roles in the evolving healthcare landscape.
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Why Watch this Webinar?
In-Demand Skills and Roles
Learn how to stay on top of the competencies needed of your MA, PCT, and Phlebotomy students.
Actionable Strategies
Ensure your educational offerings are aligned with industry demands.
The Value of Partnerships
Understand how the value of partnerships and a skills-based economy can improve hiring practices and healthcare workforce development.
Identify transferrable healthcare skills in diverse populations
- Gain insights into recognizing the hidden potential within diverse populations.
- Identify transferable skills that are often overlooked but are essential to healthcare roles.
- Learn to see beyond traditional backgrounds and discover how adaptability, customer service, and problem-solving abilities can be harnessed to address your staffing needs, enriching your team with a wealth of untapped talent.
Develop efficient and cost-effective allied health training programs
- Learn to create efficient, cost-effective training for in-demand allied health fields.
- Get the blueprint for upskilling individuals into roles such as medical assistants, patient care technicians, pharmacy technicians, and other specialties.
- Find out how to craft educational routes that cut costs, improve learning, and quickly connect untapped talent to your staffing needs.
Build partnerships with community organizers and learning resource providers
- Delve into the strategic process of building robust partnerships, which is key to creating a sustainable talent pipeline for your health system.
- Learn how to leverage these partnerships to access a broader candidate pool, enhance your training resources, and foster a community invested in the success of your healthcare services.
- Strengthen your workforce and community ties simultaneously for long-term benefits.
Provide healthcare career pathways and support successful transitions
- Discover how to build clear healthcare career paths, aligning skills with the right allied health roles to attract and keep top talent.
- Uncover methods to ease transitions into healthcare, making newcomers feel valued and prepared.
- Discuss how to foster a growth environment that leads to a dedicated, stable workforce in your health system.
Our Presenters
Britt Black
Assistant Vice President | Clinical Excellence at AdventHealth Medical Group
Kelly Cobb, BSN, RN is a seasoned Product Integration Specialist and Educator at the National Healthcareer Association. With a diverse background in nursing and allied healthcare education across simulation, hospital, academic, and CTE settings, she's dedicated to advancing competency-based learning. Her impactful consulting and advocacy for shared resources have elevated the healthcare education community. In the upcoming webinar, she will draw on her extensive experience to share key strategies for bridging the theory-practice gap in healthcare education.
Jenna Fisher
Vice President of Clinical Excellence at Ascend Learning
Amy Mackenroth brings two decades of management experience in workforce development, higher education, and academic medicine. Her history of notable work gives her an exceptional background for understanding the unique needs and special process requirements to successfully lead teams and projects from pilot-to-scale. Amy is passionate about creating opportunities to develop the future workforce through validated, industry-recognized credentials and work-based learning. Amy’s core focus in her current role is to provide strategic leadership for the College’s national partnerships and workforce innovation priorities within the Innovation & Business Strategies division, responsible for operations from strategy through delivery. The role includes leveraging relationships with internal and external stakeholders to promote Dallas College’s national position of influence to ultimately support students, communities, and the College’s strategic priorities.
Carla Biondiollo, MSN, RN
University of Texas
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