Nicholas Wyman

Nicholas Wyman is a workforce development and apprenticeship expert, speaker, and author who has fostered a workforce development model that uses mentoring to shape the thinking, attitude, abilities, and skills of people as they make the transition from school to work. Nicholas applies real-world solutions to the challenges companies face in finding skilled employees.

A Winston-Churchill Memorial Fellow, Nicholas has completed in-depth research into school-to-work transitions and skilled careers. Nicholas wrote the international award-winning book, Job U, regularly writes and comments on skills and workforce development issues, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the American Institute of Innovative Apprenticeship.

Nicholas started his career earning a trade in commercial cookery, was awarded Australian Apprentice of the Year in 1988 and captained Australia’s gold-medal-winning Culinary Youth Team before becoming a chef specializing in fish at the London Ritz Hotel.