Your Working Life With Caroline Dowd-higgins

Leigh Anne Taylor Knight is a resourceful, future-focused leader who currently serves The DeBruce Foundation in Kansas City as Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer. A teacher at heart, Leigh Anne has also served as a K-12 assistant superintendent, advised learning institutions across the nation, and led a bi-state consortium providing powerful tools for data-driven educational research to inform practice and policy. The DeBruce Foundation is a national nonprofit foundation based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Foundation’s mission is to expand pathways to economic growth and opportunity.  The DeBruce Foundation just released a first-of-its-kind report on employment empowerment. The research shows that careers with higher salaries, increased job security, better benefits, and more can be built with two factors: career literacy and network strength.   In the study, individuals who were rated high in career literacy and network strength: ○      earn 55% more in annual salary ○      26% more of them are