Workforce in Focus

Solution Series: The Second Chance Advantage

By MI NewsroomJuly 25, 2025
Industrial worker wearing safety glasses and helmet at manufacturing facility.
A skilled worker at the Manufacturing Institute operating machinery in a factory environment.

Join us Thursday, July 31, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. EST for “The Second Chance Advantage: Manufacturing Success Stories and a New Tool to Drive Adoption” Solution Series event to learn how companies are filling talent gaps and creating impact through second chance hiring.

Presented by the Manufacturing Institute and Envoy, a social impact consulting firm whose initiatives include advancing second chance hiring and other workforce strategies, this 60-minute event will feature real-time success stories from leading manufacturers like Komatsu, Union Pacific and Xylem.

In this interactive discussion, you’ll hear how companies are:

  • Clearing the path for justice-impacted talent by addressing unseen obstacles in their hiring processes

  • Building strategic relationships and telling their organization’s story to connect with overlooked talent

  • Incorporating proven strategies like Envoy’s Fair Chance Navigator a new, step-by-step tool that helps manufacturers initiate or expand just informed hiring practices, into recruitment and retention efforts

Talent is everywhere. Opportunity should be too. Join us to explore how second chance strategies are driving results and redefining the future of manufacturing talent pipelines.