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| What we do |
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| Experience Works helps low-income seniors, with multiple barriers to employment, get the training they need to find good jobs in their local communities. |
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Experience Works is a national, charitable, community-based organization. Originally named Green Thumb, and chartered in 1965 as a small, rural demonstration program, Experience Works has grown to be the nation’s leading provider of training, employment, and community service for low-income older people. |
Our Mission:
Improve the lives of older people through employment, community service and training.
Our Strengths:
- Assisting employers to take full advantage of the talents of older workers
- Helping older people who are low income or at risk of becoming low income.
- Using community service as a path to employment.
- Building strong relationships in local communities.
Addressing the challenges facing older people in rural America.
Our Beliefs:
- Older people should have an opportunity to learn new skills and contribute to their community throughout their lives.
- Employers who hire, train and retain older workers will be most successful.
- People who are productive and active throughout their lives will have better health, increased longevity, and a more positive impact on their community.
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Our Leadership:
Board of Directors:
Chairman Phillip Klutts, Oklahoma
Ruth Ann Wefald, Kansas
Dr. Charles N. Toftoy, Virginia
Benedict Weissenrieder, Ohio
Doug Anderton, Georgia
Board Member (Emeritus):
Cy Carpenter, Minnesota
State Directors:
Janice Bramwell
MO, IL
Stephanie Cabral
CA, ID
Diane Cowan
TX Customer Support Center
Wes Cowan
TX (State)
Sally Evans
KY Customer Care Center
Joe Farrone
PA, NJ
Pamela Fox
IN
Dick Freeman
IA, NE
Kent Kahn
OH
Carole Kincaid
KY, VA, WV
Cheryl Kulm
MT, WY
Dave Lack
TX (Federal)
Patricia Langreck
WI
Mary Miller
OR
Edna Rodriguez
PR
Becky Scott
LA, MS
Teri Stepaniak
MN
Shirley Stuart
ND, SD
Billy Wooten
FL, GA, SC
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Officers:
Cynthia A. Metzler
President and CEO
Shane Bateman
Chief Financial Officer
Sally Boofer
Vice President for
Program Operations
Lita Levine Kleger
Vice President of
External Affairs
Florie Munz
Assistant Treasurer
National Directors:
Bill Dodson
Director of Human Resources & Supportive Services
Marvin Jones
Director of Training and Staff Development
Susan Lattanzi
Director of Information Technology
Michi McNeace
SCSEP Director
Jo Rinehart
Director of
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Cynthia A. Metzler is President and CEO of Experience Works, the nation’s largest, nonprofit, community-based organization focused on helping low-income older people get the training they need to find jobs in their community.
Ms. Metzler’s 30-year career has spanned the worlds of the law, government, academia and nonprofit organizations. As an executive, advisor and counselor, she is a visionary, results-oriented, innovative, energetic and skillful leader of people and organizations.
Ms. Metzler began her career providing civil legal services to poor clients in Indiana and Florida, culminating in her service as Executive Director of Florida Rural Legal Services. Relocating to Washington, D.C., she became Special Assistant and Chief Counsel to the Chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Board before assuming the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of OEF International, a multi-million dollar international organization to develop women’s entrepreneurial and leadership skills in developing countries.
She returned to government service in 1993, as Associate Director of Presidential Personnel at the White House. She then became Associate Administrator of the General Services Administration and in 1994, she was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate as Assistant Secretary of Labor. She subsequently was appointed Acting Deputy Secretary and served for several months as Acting Secretary of Labor where she was responsible for the President’s workforce policies and programs.
Returning to the practice of law, she became a partner in the firm of Pepper Hamilton, LLP, focusing on employment law and public policy. She was subsequently recruited as Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she served until June 2004. .
Prior to joining Experience Works in September of 2006, she maintained a consulting practice, The Metzler Group, advising value-driven organizations in areas of developing leaders and strengthening capacity and effectiveness.
Ms. Metzler holds a BA in political science from Purdue University, a JD from Indiana University and a Master’s degree in Organizational Development from American University .
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