& n b s p ; & nbsp;          According to the studies of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), women are estimated to be the largest labor force in the emerging 21^st century economy.  The emerging 21^st century workforce and labor force also predicts:

• Total employment is projected to increase by 15.6 million jobs, or 10 percent by 2016
• The labor force is projected to increase by 12.8 million over the 2006-16 decade, reaching 164.2 million by 2016
• Service-production industries will generate almost all of the employment gain and will provide more than three-quarters of all jobs by 2016.  In fact, professional and business services (i.e. financial services, education, transportation, and information) and health care and social assistance with the largest employment growth, will add 8.1 million jobs more than half of the projected increase in total employment by 2016.

But, imagine, a U.S. economy with a potential to flourish, but having no one with the adequate skills and knowledge to take it there.  Sadly, most career, human resource experts, and business leaders feel this may be the case for not only the United States, but for several competing global economies.  As the baby boom generation exists the workforce and today’s younger generation steps in, employers are finding that the incoming generation lacks both basic academic skills and applied workplace skills.

Rashid Brown is a captivating inter-generational educator, lecturer, strategic speaker, business coach, presenter/facilitator.  He has a 20+ years as a management professional.  He is recognized by the National Registry of CPE Sponsors of the National Association of the State Board of Accountancy.  He is a registered and certified Management Professional in the National Restaurant Association Foundation and a Certified Safety Manager.  Brown has lead diversified Hospitality and Food & Beverage portfolios for Forbes and Fortune 500 companies.  Further, he is an active member in Delta Iota Epsilon Academy Honors Society, The National Scholars Honors Society, Big Brother Big Sisters of America, and Junior Achievement.  Brown is also recipient of The Congressional Merit of Honor, Madison Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals, and Cambridge Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals “Honors Edition.”  Brown is a professional member of the National Career Development Association, Future Business Writers Association.  Brown also is an Author/Lecturer, columnist and essayist on the 21^st Century Economy & Workforce, Mixed-Used Urban Policy & Administration, the New Directions of Higher Education, Career Technology, Student Development and Professional Leadership Development.  He has advanced training Global Enterprise Management and Finance as well as pedagogical instruction in Music Education, Administration and Policy, and String Development.  Presently, he is founding President of Kingdom Fortunes Development Group, a privately-held, executive leadership training and development consulting Management Company based in Atlanta, G e orgia, which provides personal development and organizational support, as well as success training and staff development to emerging leaders, teacher educators, administrators, educations institutions, nonprofits and business leaders in mixed-used, urban districts.