good morning it's wonderful to see so many smiling faces on this chilly in march morning eimear to the weekend morning news anchor i'm so excited to be with you this morning this is my third or fourth earlybird breakfast that i've gotten to host and it always feels like a homecoming for me because i went to whole college my husband and i both went to hope and so enjoyed our experience so being here hayworth it feels like home a so excited to have partnered with the west coast chamber to help host these breakfasts i know that you guys have had a great line up of my colleagues dan harland was here last month i heard he was hilarious i apologize i'm just not that funny i was hoping that would get a laugh but he leaves big shoes to fill but coming up we've also got some wonderful folks joining us next month my boss has painter he is the news director so please put in a good word for me and then the following month will be janet me said who was our general manager so she's in charge of everybody she's the big boss so i'm sure that you will enjoy them as well as the weekend morning news anchor something that we really like to do is help our viewers wake up on saturday and sunday morning because we're on air from six to eight a m it's very early on a saturday and a sunday so something i'd like to do this morning and we've done this in the past i'd like to have you guys help me with our greeting so what i'm going to do and sorry that you're all eating but we're going to do it anyway i'm going to say three to one and you're going to shout wake up west michigan ok so i'm going to say three to one you're going to say wake up west michigan and then you're going to wave wave and wave and keep waving it's going to feel awkward but that's ok ok well get everybody you awake this morning ok here we go thanks for your patience while i get this camera up and work every wine nicely done nicely done good of course very glad to be with you this morning we're grateful to both of our sponsors thank you to fifth their bank for the sponsorship of our precocity time and for their ongoing partnership with the boys and girls club of greater holland and for allowing this organization the opportunity to be with us today during our precocity time hopefully you had a chance to visit their table in the foyer this morning we also went to see a big thank you to our early bird sponsor oh good morning my name is nick is president of l g cam and i would like to tell you a little bit about our story and i think all of us here very excited to hear a lieutenant governor calley  share some of the updates with us but still thank you for giving me a little bit of your time this morning a little bit about myself i've been here about eighteen months i'm a general motors of veteran thirty five years in manufacturing and came here to run the cell g facility the first non korean leader to run this run this company real proud of what we've been able to do here but i also think it's important to let you know what is  play in the field of l g l g is the larger company that is the appliance and t v producer that you know it's a korean based company we're one of four divisions the automotive and danced automotive battery division and we build lithium ion battery cells and battery packs for the chevrolet volt for the recently announced a chrysler pacifica many of a and and it's just been tremendous and very heartfelt to see the growth that we've been able to experience just in the last two years we've been able to add to her hundred people to our to our plant we are at a five hundred headcount level currently and that brings us to three shifts five days per week sometimes six days per week so that's that's a good news story but we don't plan to stop there we are growing and i just announced that we are going to be adding a one hundred thousand square foot building to the plant site to add additional jobs one hundred to two hundred jobs in the coming years for additional packed assembly that will go into vehicles as well  really pleased with again the growth and as i look at this room a lot of you were here six years ago when the plant was built when i wasn't here and you've been here to support us so it's really with great pride to see us grow with renewable energy that we're seeing in the automotive industry and i thank all of you for your support and it's wonderful it's a great feeling to give back to the community with employment also to the to the businesses in the area so truly from my heart thank you just want to quickly take a couple seconds to recognize my esteemed colleagues from l g chem just raise your hands if you would just a great cross section of the calico left electrical engineers from hope college calvin michigan state we go as far as high a state southern alabama as well so again thank you for being here and thanks to all of you enjoy the little charger gift on your tables and it's again kind of goes with our model of we're not looking for people just to have a job at l g cam we want people to grow with us recharge your careers so enjoy that battery charger at your table thank you very much banking as you all may have noticed we decided to change up the door prize drawing again so today's door prize is provided by our friends at odds we can't insurance agency the amount is fifty three dollars and sixty five cents in west coast cash you have to ask them why is that amount you know as you know this week we celebrate st patrick's day to find out if you have won this month's pot of gold please take a look at the bottom of the gift provided by today's early bird sponsor l g m which he just mentioned take a look at the bottom of your charger do you see something do we have a winner fantastic good good come on up and claim your prize it's a beauty and you are pete pete where are you from capital wonderful pete congratulations it's beautiful now i would like to introduce someone that you all know and love jane clarke the president of the west coast chamber jane good morning and welcome everyone three quick announcements from the chamber me the first it's that time of year to start thinking about next year's leadership class so our west coast leadership program applications are live now on our website they are d may one will get the class assembled and for many many of you in this room have gone through leadership you know what a great program is how it recharge yourself personally in your career so we hope you'll consider joining again this year next as a save the date our second annual trip to chicago for a neo con to the big office furniture showcase is going to happen the day after a june early bird so that's wednesday june fourteenth we have a fantastic day planned for you if you went on that trip last year you know it's a great time we load a bus in our parking lot in holland we feed you breakfast we take you through the three big vendors locally the hayworth show room the herman miller show room the trend way show room we arrange for lunch and then in the afternoon you spend time at individual suppliers so if you've always wondered about the mystique of neo con we hope you'll join us for that date and then finally mark your calendars with the weather today it's kind of hard to think about but we do have our golf outing coming up so that will be wednesday july twelfth and this year will be at the ravines golf club so start practicing for that as well thank you now it is my pleasure to introduce and invite state representative daniela garcia to the podium to introduce our guest speaker this morning  everybody is taller than me good morning it is my pleasure to welcome to holland to lieutenant governor brian calley brian alongside the governor has worked tirelessly over the last six years to help reinvent michigan moving o state forward for the betterment of all of our residents through his efforts we've seen unemployment numbers fall to an all time low and five hundred thousand private sector jobs created here in michigan while in office lieutenant governor has been an advocate for our most vulnerable citizens so that they may have the opportunity to live more independent and self determined lives he is an advocate for mental health and education reforms and has been working to address the opioid epidemic we are now facing brian has been in a pragmatic and thoughtful leader for our state and it is a true pleasure to work with him on behalf of the residents of michigan please give a warm welcome to our lieutenant governor and my friend bryan kelly one of these lovely are going to look at ted talk this year thanks for thanks for the invitation to be here this year the this is i was looking back this is my seventh year in a row being here for this for this event and particularly flattered when i'm invited to come back someplace and seven times so you guys don't learn and i appreciate that the if i will say though i was supposed to be in washington d c today and i i literally didn't change that because i wanted to be here with you so thank you for the invitation believe sarah is here so thanks for being here and of course i'm at a price on behalf of senator me cough is doing a fantastic job as senate majority leader i wanted to last year we talked a lot about disability employment and i wanted to end where i'm not going to focus on the this time except for to invite you to to register at my hidden talent dot com for a workshop about how to how to be more successful at hiring people with disabilities so if you've got some positions in your in your in your shop that are opening you're having a hard time filling my first question is it to people is have you ever thought about hiring a person with a disability because there are a lot of talented people out there they're looking for an opportunity you know back when i first got started ten years ago the problem is no jobs and then a few years later and the economy was growing and people started to say listen i got jobs i'd like to hire people but i can't find people to write skills to fill those jobs and now here i kind of care about skills just give me some of the show for work on time pass a drug test and they got the job you know and i'll take care of the skills part of it so there's a lot of growth in demand and shortage of people but the but there's a there's a group this still largely overlooked and has a lot to offer some talk about charity here in part about people have a lot to offer just have a hard time getting through that that opportunity so i want to talk to about automotive the automotive industry and in the changes that are happening and i did it with the with the sponsor l g chem i think is a perfect segue into considering what the opportunity is that we that we have in front of us today in it's it's been a huge part of our past it's of course a big part of our present but the type of innovation that is happening is making it an enormous part of our future and we really stand on the cusp of of developing th technology is going to change everything and it's not just the idea of autonomous vehicles i'm going to talk some about that today but it's the idea that the world is going to change because of this technology and desk it affect all kinds of other things and we're at the forefront of of establishing the platforms and the platforms and in the standards but also the the other ripple effects that it has on everything else as things one kind of example of that i wanted to give to set the stage for this was back when michigan was the was and the front end of the industrial revolution and we started making vehicles and nobody was making vehicles like michigan was made goals and so the idea of congestion and roadways in needing to have rules about how vehicles interact with each other we had to deal with that before anybody else did because we were just that much further ahead so we had a  governor by the name of governor green who is a part of the group that developed the road striping standards before they didn't have road striping standards for horses and carriages but when it came to automotive traffic that that those types of standards the rules for how that works had to be developed by somebody and so as developed here the yellow lines and the red lines and stripes and and gas lines and all of those standards for how it works and what has been largely adoption around the world was developed right here in michigan because this was on the we were on the front end of the industrial revolution and therefore all the things that had to happen around the industrial revolution just one simple example of the way that that that  innovation and changes that happen in michigan affected the way that the rest of the world worked now let's talk about the automotive industry as it stands today in the transition that it's that it's gone through and the opportunities that is presenting for so many other different industries thing i love about the comeback that we have going today is that it is so diverse you have about a half a million private sector jobs that have been created in the last six or so years and those jobs are spread across all the different industry sectors every single section of the private sector every different sector of the private sector has added jobs in the last six net increase in jobs and every single one of them the only category that has shrunk is in terms of jobs kept classification categories is a government jobs during that particular time and so we've had a lot of growth in that growth has been very diverse but the cool thing is is how much of it now is tied to what's happening in the automotive industry and how that has opened up doors into new indian new industries and so a few years ago there was this there was this idea to to start a a a facility but it's an outdoor campus if you will and it's near the university of michigan and  partnership with the university of michigan is called and city as for testing of a town in the city of this quickly filled up because there are so many different entities that are that are testing and wanting to deploy this technology and all the different major players from around the globe in this space are at this facility and they're in are engaging in their tests and as their confidence grows remember the first time i went there that it was  like cardboard people in the you know the go in front of the car in the car on its own would stop and everybody was you know it's like a pretty amazing thing the car was smart enough to stop but you know it's if it didn't it was a piece of cardboard big deal right but if you were to go there today you have like a real personal jump in front of a car because the confidence in the technology has has changed that much and it's just not a matter of stopping the vehicle stopping but it's the idea of of a vehicle that is intelligent enough to make decisions and process information at a level that that would have seen seemed impossible just a few years ago in the end there's this rapid advancement but the problem is that it just got full so quick but it's exciting because you have all of these different players that are in the same place in gauging and collaborating at a level that you wouldn't have seen otherwise so we decided to move forward with a very ambitious plan to to expand the the testing facility capacity in our state at the willow run airport now that will run which is over  our county has a very storied just an amazing history it's where the the b twenty four bomber was built part of that war machine they had they got so good at making these planes that they had one come off the line and completion every twenty four minutes nothing had ever been done like that before and so this is a this is a place that has a storied history of america in amazing history it literally did was part of this effort to save the world and but now it's it's mostly empty and it's about a three hundred thirty acre site and it's set up perfectly to have in all conditions all seasons high speed low speed urban congested rural testing opportunity real life testing opportunities for for the vehicles that are being deployed it's called the american center for mobility and tomorrow in fact president trump will be visiting it and this is this facility which is under construction right now is going to do a couple of things first of all it is so big and offers for season outdoor testing which is pretty important i mean when it when it comes to some of the some of the driverless technology has tried to look at road striping we are going to keep the car between the stripes on the road but that doesn't necessarily work all that well in winter and michigan for example so the idea is we have everything like within ten days we've got everything in so so you can you can deploy and test this technology across all of these different conditions and you can do it right here so you have all this action around mobility which is occurring in this in this in this region of our country and especially within our state and this type of a testing facility is really going to drive a lot of the research and development activity near it but we're also excited about the idea of the adoption of of common platforms because we need vehicles to be able to if this technology is going to be as good as it can be and it's and it's moving folks i mean ford says within a few years are going to have a vehicle with no steering wheel no brake pedal no gas pedal and we just within a few years and this is pretty amazing it seemed like not too long ago and yet that's that's what's in our that's what's in our immediate future in is possible because of the actions of the activities that are happening around places like and city and then acceleration under under the american center for mobile for mobility but the common platforms as is is very important the development of the ability of these vehicles to talk to each other and it's opened up all kinds of possibilities first of all human errors the cost cause of most accidents and if when this technology is deployed on a wide scale the potential to reduce accidents maybe by as much as eighty as ninety percent think of the change  or the dramatic impact it would have on the world i started out talking about people with disabilities could you imagine if you lived your life in a way that some of you had to rely on somebody else to take you places maybe you're older and you've lost your vision and so you can't drive yourself anymore or you have a development disability and you haven't been able to obtain a driver's license and you always have to rely on somebody else to get you places but what if you didn't have to have that anymore think about the way that the world opens up it literally changes everything for some people could you imagine how about for just the rest of us who have vehicles one of my vehicle drop me off today and then it went out and it worked for a while ys in here talking to you and then it came back to get me right or i went to bed in my car went out to work right i mean there's all kinds of people could change everything this type of technology in the epicenter on planet earth is right here and i know this technology is kind of scary to think about like cars driving by themselves  and and so this is there's a cultural change but the generations are going to help us get through that a little faster than what i think we probably would probably think we've because while for those of us who i'm like come to the end of the generation that  still looked up at vehicles and drive in vehicles and when i remember when i turned sixteen at eight fifty nine a m i was at the state secretary of state office you know with my face pressed up against the window so i could go in and get the driver's license and and because that meant freedom right it was such a big deal and people that are younger than me it's not quite as big a deal to drive a vehicle very happy to have somebody else drive them the average age at which people get their licenses keeps getting older and older it's difficult for me to understand this but that's what's the trend in what's happening i think this transition is going to happen a little faster through generational shifts than than what we otherwise might think possible but the point is that this is the future and it is happening here that has been being driven by the innovation and the know how of people in michigan and that's an exciting place to be and it's have tracting talent and investment and capital from all over the world because if you are in mobility this is where you have to be but it's not just intelligent vehicles  the platforms oh by the way information technology do you know that aside from silicon valley that in in southeast michigan we have the next highest concentration of i t professional to realize that i mean this is a pretty amazing opportunity anybody have a ford fusion by any chance in the rooms we've got some ford fusions in here so ford fusions have more lines of computer code than a boeing seven forty seven i mean just the information technology systems in vehicles today it's just it's mind blowing and it has created a concentration  professionals even the invention of new professions that are happening in our state where you have engineering and all different types of engineering and information technology in these kind of merging together this convergence of these professions and creation of new professions here this expertise that that exists here and literally nowhere else and it's making us much more competitive i was just in mexico a few weeks ago knows a trade trip i took probably twenty one or twenty two small and mid size companies and the idea is that lot of the big players they they deal around the world they sell their goods and services all over the world but smaller and mid size companies usually need a little help getting connected to those opportunities but they are every bit as competitive and if they can get into supply chains other places and create jobs more jobs back home and and so as we as we look at these opportunities one of the things that we that we find over and over again is that whether you're talking about o small companies or middle sized companies or big companies that their expertise and know how can compete and win anywhere in the world and that's what's exciting about our future now in an industry that before seemed really risky it is risky to have all your eggs in one basket but now we see the that what's happening in the automotive industry not just driving the future and it's great you know those places that that anticipate the future do well but places that drive the future own it and that's really where it feels like michigan is right now where we can own the next generation of technology and innovation because of the concentration of talent that exists here and so we're driving that forward today but it's creating opportunities in all different other places information technology being one of those not just in the modern mode of industry were but now that concentration is allowing us to develop capacities in all different other and in different aspects of our of our economy but think about the other things that that makes sense for the automotive industry or the other things are happening in that industry things like development of  lighter and stronger eloisa or aerodynamics or alternative energy and fuel like algae county or on the other side of the state the general motors and honda just today they just formed a partnership a fifty fifty partnership to start mass production of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles or the the drive train systems or even all these different things that are happening as you know those are all things that are really important for the aerospace industry and for the defense industry here in michigan we have one hundred five thousand jobs that are tied to defense to defen work and it's because of this concentration of people that can do things like alternative fuel and autonomous vehicles and information technology security and  in aerodynamics in joining technologies and in lighter stronger eloisa i mean all of this work that's happening here is important for the defense industry and so we have things like target again and take on the purchasing army arm of the army is not in washington at the pentagon it's in michigan the purchasing are the person decisions for the united states army that's here in michigan not in washington the the the the whe vehicle research division of our military is in michigan not in washington and so these opportunities that we have to get into other sectors other industries because of this concentration has given us all kinds  of all kinds of hope for what is possible in the future now i'll finish up before we take some questions here i think and traditionally we take questions where it is that we're going to do ok so the the final thing i'll say is that  the biggest barrier today to taking advantage of all this opportunity it's a labor shortage and it's not that we don't have enough people it's that we have to do a better job of connecting more people to what they need to know in order to take advantage of all the opportunities out there skilled trades being in that's a it's a really broad term in that applies to a bunch of different industries but skilled trades i'm talking about in most cases not in four year degree certificates and programs you can put people in line for excellent career opportunities i was talking to a group of auto dealers who are saying that they are to the point now they're where they are they're paying their auto technicians six figures now when i was in high school and they had an auto mechanics class nobody ever suggested that that was a career where you could make six figures but it never came up or carpentry in all kinds of you know the shortages in this in this area particular shortages and in construction skilled trades mannion and vance manufacturing the different types of machining and programming and and all the things that hast have to happen in order for the world to actually work there are shortages in nearly all of them and this is a great problem to have compared to what we face ten years ago and it's a very solvable problem but that's why this year we're being so aggressive on trying to expand our capacity of connecting more people with those skills so you saw in the last few years investments and community colleges particularly in equipment upgrading equipment so that that it can be more relevant to what industry demands today but here's what we learned in that process by community colleges too late people are the kind of made up their minds what they want to do by the time they become adults that kind of makes sense right if you don't expose kids to all the different opportunities that the world provides to them earlier in the process then you're going to miss out on a lot of people that otherwise could have been very successful in careers in skilled trades and so this year we're asking for an appropriation to help high schools get back into skilled trades development and we're also looking for looking for expansion we love competitions you know the governor talks he loves to go he goes to these first robotics competitions is great because electronics and electricians and mechanical engineering and computer programming and and robotics and all the things that these kids are exposed to in the competition if you were to take all other forty nine states and the growth of head in their first robotics teams it's not as many as we've had in michigan because we're really pushing the idea of exposing middle school and high school kids to these careers earlier so they can see the opportunity and tailor their education to where that opportunity is and that's why we think it's important to start earlier we need to have a robust system post high school to get kids ready but we have to show on these opportunities earlier so they can make the best decisions whether they want to be an automotive technician or a welder or a or some health care technician of some sort there's so many different skilled trades opportunities are building houses there was i was just north of grand rapids and yet met this young man  who was is work in macon pizzas there's nothing wrong with making pizzas but it's not is not what he wanted to do with the rest of his life and every day on his way to work he is driving past a a construction site and he saw his house going up  went from a hole you know up to two framed in it was they were they had the whole the outside of the house done he said it is going to stop and see what does it take to get into that type of work because he's just seeing every day this house get built and it looks really cool and he'd love to be able to do it he was probably twenty one or something and so he went in he went up to the to the to the site and he said who's in charge here and it was the foreman was there and he said i'd like to do this type of work how do i get into it and he said wall i mean you have the ambition to get out your current come up and talk to me when can you start so he's so he started right they trained him how to do it now it turned out he started with the rough carpentry but it turned out he was really gifted at getting things exactly right so we ended up moving over to finish carpentry now if you're good at finish carpentry you can charge whatever you want and people will pay you because it is so hard to find a really good finish carpentry work that's why i when i have finished carpenter work and that these are be done in my house and do it myself because it's so hard to find that you can just write your own ticket and so here he is working on this his working on this and his crew and when i met him he said within a couple of years i'm going to have my own crew out there and i'm going to build houses myself and so here's the opportunity here's somebody who found found his way to making it happen because he stopped in the asked and what an amazing thing it would be to have a system that exposed kids to everything that they could possibly do and by the way i'm not even talking about changing curriculum and i'm going to a bit long here on  finish with this i'm not talking about it's a false choice to say you can do skilled trades or you can have high academic standards it's a matter of how you teach you can teach things in different ways it's like when my son struggles with math  and they're working on some early concepts and geometry in the theories in the formulas don't really make sense to him but we can go out in the gries and i can show him with some wood and then it makes sense now not every kid learns the same way but we can teach chemistry in f f a because if you don't know us know soil chemistry you are not a successful far we can teach angles in geometry wood shop i mean there are ways that we can teach the academics more hands on and we don't want to get rid of this false choices though we can either have academics or we can have skilled trades we can have both and we can we can really build education around what kids need but the key is you gotta share with him what the opportunities are and you have to get out of our minds his notion that if you don't take this particular career track that you're not successful and if we can in there's always kind of a pendulum i don't want to go away to or say nobody goes to college because obviously we need a lot of people to go to college one of many people to go to colleges is want to go to college and can find opportunity in going to college i just want to make sure that kids are making smart choices based on what they want to do with their lives and that's why i've got to start earlier right it was important the work that we did to lay the groundwork in the post high school skilled trades connections and that pipeline but that pipeline is never going to be maximized if we don't show kids earlier what they could possibly do so i know you guys get that in as lot of business owners here in the room that are struggling through how do you how do you fill the needs of your company and make sure that it's dead that you can take advantage of every opportunity you have out there to grow your business and people are what it's all about in these days we used to talk about tax credits and things with economic development i mean now talent is a new currency of economic development if you've got the best talent you get the deal if you don't have the best talent i don't care how good your tax system is you're not going to get the deal and that's that's the way the way the world is going in and i love being in that position because we do have the best talent the key is can we make sure that we have the best talent in the future like we do today thank you guys for everything that you do want to say thank you for you being here the question for you when you when the governor came into office seven years ago now there was a lot of urgency there were a lot of things that needed to be done and through a lot of hard work in that of the legislature you've checked a lot of things off the list now people are time out who are next governor is going to be in two years in the term lame ducks being thrown around so how do you keep your foot on the gas and keep checking things off the list and avoid complacency you know that right now is definitely not a time for complacency because i feel like the world is waking up and realizing that well take for example the american center for mobility there are a lot of places now that are looking at what's happening with the concentration of research and development around and then design work by the well by the way so we talk about  r and d we talk about testing but the actual design work is happening here in michigan at a higher at a higher rate than even the research and development where we own about seventy five percent of the of the national market share so there's right now is not the time for complacency because everybody sees what we have and they all want it and so we have to be we have to continuously be more more competitive and more more successful but more competitive means connecting more people to the skills of the need to be a part of what's happening what i love about that is you're connecting people that need opportunity with the opportunities out there and it's building our best future all of the same time as you know when when when it's just a it's just a matter of keeping focused on it now and politics it's hard i mean power at the political climate is more calm or complicated than i've ever seen it and i think that people will be rewarded when they stay focused on the task at hand so you can have the best political plan in the world but if you are all about creating the best type of an environment for people in their families to be successful then maybe i'm naive but i just i think that the debt is what people at the end of the day really want  and in i think we're well positioned to do that so we don't expect to see as this night or administration finishes out the last two years do not expect to see any complacency or any coasting if anything i see the governor in particular really accelerating the work that sense of urgency that there are only so much time left to get things done and trying to really make as much of it happen in a short period of time as possible recognizing we have come a long way but but we still have potential out there to be realized next question i used to work for a large company that was into effect the automation and when we were hiring new sales executives coming in fresh out of undergrad school we were looking for kids who had four paid internships by the time they graduated from undergrad that means they had to make decisions about things coming out of high school and yet the same time we talk about encouraging students to look at different things how do you balance those two things are those in conflict with each other well that great question they don't have to be in conflict i mean i think it's just a matter of organizing things i mean there was a time when we worked in high school i mean that was i worked i started my first job was in middle school and actually had two jobs in middle school on the weekends i had a person that i did yard work for on top of my responsibilities at home but then my dad had an office and i did the filing in the office and answering the phone and then i worked in a more responsibilities there eventually i went into i worked in a nursing home i did i did housekeeping at a nursing home still to this day the hardest i've ever done and and i learned a lot and that in that job and work experience is so important and i was speaking at a i want to say which one but it has a spoke of many many college graduations and i heard a say well here we are done or you have to start thinking about getting a job and i mean i have like ten jobs by the time i graduated from college i mean somehow we separated out education from  from work and education is work and education alongside the work makes a big difference i've got my m b a while i was a full time banker and and so the value of that education alongside my work was way more than if i did the education before my work and and so there's that that's this is an important point that experience i graduate from michigan state with a management degree and i love michigan state but i was qualified to manage exactly nothing when i graduated and i mean you got to go out there learn how to do things and that's what we got to we've got to get past this past this notion like you've got this purist education thing like theory education and then you start work in get back to a point where it's integrated i mean i feel like we used to know how to educate people in the past and somehow we got away from it and i'm so i don't want to reinvent the wheel here i just want to get to a point where we we put some common sense into this thing and really the idea of having interned chips paid paid or not but in turn chips is a that's just a great way to enhance the education particularly mean it's even if it's not connected to education there's a lot of value in it but if it is connected via education even more so ok we have time for one more question can you share with us some success stories of secondary education integrating more exposure to other kinds of trades rather than going the university around and what can we the second part as community leaders do to help encourage more diversification of talent great question you know we're seeing more and more often what i what i the things i love is when somebody when you think about in terms of when when when so when you have a  student that needs opportunity and also has a sixpence expense coming up where they're going to go to school somewhere and then you've got companies that desperately need people that have at least a basic level of you know the work ethic and a base level of knowledge to to get started and and so we had started with in partnership with community colleges a playing a facilitator a connector role too in the field of mechatronics so there's just one where there was this kind specialize in there was demand for it but there weren't a lot of people finding their way into that opportunity so we had employers and one side said we'll if you find good candidates they want to go into this we'll pay for their education in guarantee them a job and give them an internal ship while they're doing the education and so you have people that are going into going into professions are going to their education knowing exactly where the job is going to be and what they're going to make in getting out here's the best part debt free so it's not and this isn't a time about university here it's a different it's a community college education but the idea of going through it and not having any debt literally zero debt and starting out i mean how much further are kids along when they can start out their career without having a big education debt attached to it and that's just one example but we're seeing those kind of connections happen all over the place he's got employers that really desperately need people and yet individuals and desperately need opportunities so how can we just make sure that more of them get more of them get connected as for the second part of the question of how can you get involved in making that happen i would encourage you to  partnerships with your with your local educational institutions so it could be the university level it could be community colleges and trade schools or it could even be the high school one other thing i would mention to not to overlook is to don't over don't don't rule out the idea of finding good dependable long term talented employees from your immediate school destroyed so that i can give you a ton of examples of people that  of operate under the radar screen but there's a ton of them here in the book through vest in this guy had been there for twenty years and he done several different jobs in there is a developmental disability and it was is the kind of person oftentimes doesn't find work with me and you give us somebody that type of opportunity and they stick with your and they're loyal and they're creative and determined and have really good attitude so i mean these are great qualities you want to have in your workforce so so you have kind of the traditional ones that i that i mentioned but i would encourage you to think about your intermediate school district has they have some people that there are that or are there till age twenty six and just have a hard time finding that somebody to give them a shot at doing something and go out there and start a career and sometimes those can be your best your best choices because you're not giving up any credibility and urine the energy productivity and you're getting somebody that's just governor thank you so much your insights this morning i said you join having you and thank you all so much for being here this morning getting our tuesday kicked off on a wonderful note we want to encourage you of course to come back again next month the date april eleventh to hear from whit mitchell executive coach author and speaker as he shares with us how to unite the extraordinary with fresh ideas for team dynamics and organizational culture have a wonderful tuesday everyone good to see you