Jan Vogel

Mr. Jan Vogel has served as the Executive Director of the South Bay Workforce Investment Board (SBWIB) which encompasses eleven cities in the Los Angeles South Bay region in California that includes: El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Lawndale, Torrance, Lomita, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, and Carson.

The South Bay Workforce Investment Board has been a leader in workforce innovation and has received national awards for the performance of workforce development activities for employment and business services, not only within Los Angeles County but throughout Southern California. The SBWIB has also been recognized for being one of the highest-performing Workforce Investment Boards in the state of California.

Mr. Vogel is a leader in apprenticeship development and has initiated many efforts for establishing apprenticeship programs utilizing innovative approaches for employer engagement and job seeker recruitment for both union and non-union apprenticeship models.

He has been instrumental in facilitating, coordinating and partnering with numerous construction crafts to increase apprentices in the Los Angeles South Bay area. Additionally, he formulated a variety of pre-apprentice programs leading to registered apprenticeships that were incorporated into a region-wide training directory called I-TRAIN, a system that Mr. Vogel created to ensure providers delivered approved quality education and training to students and job seekers.

Most recently, he has developed a pre-apprenticeship program in Aerospace Engineering called AERO-Flex. The advanced manufacturing program has quickly evolved into an employer-centric earn and lean model attracting top employers such as Northrop Grumman, Lockheed-Martin, L-3 Communications, Impressa Aerospace, Magnetika and many others. This employer-driven pre-apprenticeship will ensure advanced manufacturing firms can find the talent they need locally and provide workers with the hands-on experience employers need. Mr. Vogel plans to expand the program statewide and nationally with both the pre-apprenticeship program and a registered apprenticeship in engineering.

Under Mr. Vogel’s leadership, the SBWIB received two of the largest federal National Emergency Grants in history from the Department of Labor and was responsible for training tens of thousands of laid-off workers, local residents and youth.

Through the federal stimulus program of 2009, Mr. Vogel and the SBWIB administered the largest Transitional Subsidized Employment program in the Country responsible for employing over 10,000 individuals on public assistance in just one year, through a subcontract with Los Angeles County. The program provided on-the-job training to thousands with barriers to employment and gave them a path to self-sufficiency and a career. The successful program continues today with more than 2,000 people on the payroll at any given time, providing them with work experience and leading them to permanent full-time employment.

Mr. Vogel received both his Master of Arts in Education and Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). Additionally, he holds a California Administrative Services Credential from California State University Long Beach and a Lifetime K-12 Teaching Credential. He was an adjunct Professor in the School of Professional Studies at Pepperdine University.