ABOUT ENGAGE! STRATEGIES
The Engage! team is led by Owner & Founder James Morante, who brings more than 25 years of leadership in workforce development, coalition building, community engagement and communications. His unique tenure within non-profit, government and corporate environments offer a diverse skillset defined by strategic, efficient, and collaborative decision- making.
Engage! Strategies has a comprehensive track record creating customized, impactful, and sustainable organizational and workforce strategies across a breadth of industry sectors, specializing in energy and construction. This includes engineering comprehensive outcome- based public/private workforce training pathways and outreach partnerships embedding disadvantaged and under-represented populations.
Engage! Strategies has a comprehensive track record creating customized, impactful, and sustainable organizational and workforce strategies across a breadth of industry sectors, specializing in energy and construction. This includes engineering comprehensive outcome- based public/private workforce training pathways and outreach partnerships embedding disadvantaged and under-represented populations.
During his decade of direct utility experience, Morante pioneered award-winning workforce initiatives, including the transformation of a nationally recognized employer energy/utility workforce training program. He was the architect who imagined and implemented one of the most aggressive military hiring commitments in the utility industry. Those efforts culminated in a visit from United States Vice President Joe Biden, who cited the work as “best-in-class.”
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Morante also served as the Statewide Director of Energy, Construction & Utilities within the Economic & Workforce Development Division of California’s Community Colleges, where he engages both employers and the state’s 114 community colleges to align program content, validate supply and demand gaps and ultimately deliver the knowledge, skills, and abilities for both today and tomorrow’s sector careers.
In that role, Morante launched the first-of-its-kind energy/utility sector community-based organization (CBO) social mobility project to engage, listen and learn about unique structural and motivational barriers to each population, inclusive of Veterans, foster youth, previously incarcerated, women in trades, first generation, and the African American & Hispanic community – resulting in the creation of targeted, local and distinct marketing/outreach strategies connecting awareness, programs and employers enabling the sector team to more effectively respond to industry diversity enrollment gaps.
Engage! Strategies is certified DBE by the California DOT.
In that role, Morante launched the first-of-its-kind energy/utility sector community-based organization (CBO) social mobility project to engage, listen and learn about unique structural and motivational barriers to each population, inclusive of Veterans, foster youth, previously incarcerated, women in trades, first generation, and the African American & Hispanic community – resulting in the creation of targeted, local and distinct marketing/outreach strategies connecting awareness, programs and employers enabling the sector team to more effectively respond to industry diversity enrollment gaps.
Engage! Strategies is certified DBE by the California DOT.