KEYNOTE
Narrative Change & Economic Potential
Seventy million Americans have a criminal record. Most are excluded from the workforce, from capital, and from the economic systems that determine upward mobility. Marcus challenges institutions to stop treating people impacted by the justice system as social liabilities, and start seeing them as economic contributors, builders, workers, and leaders. This keynote uses data, story, and evidence from Flikshop and Perspectives Partnership to make the business case for a different future.
INSIDE THE TALK
Seventy million Americans carry a record. Marcus lays out what shutting them out of work, capital, and housing costs employers, tax bases, and communities every year.
The stories institutions tell about justice-impacted people shape hiring policy and budgets. Marcus shows how to change the story with evidence rather than sentiment.
Concrete pathways for hiring, contracting, and procurement, drawn from Flikshop and Perspectives Partnership engagements with agencies and employers.
Why pilots stall, and what it takes to move a fair chance effort from a single program into standard operating practice.
FORMATS AVAILABLE
45 to 60 minute keynote
Keynote plus practitioner Q&A
Convening or policy briefing session
WHAT AUDIENCES EXPERIENCE
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| • Understand the economic cost of exclusion
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| • Learn practical pathways for fair chance hiring and contracting
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| • See how narrative change drives systemic economic change
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WHO IS THIS TALK FOR?
Foundations
Workforce Development Organizations
Government Agencies
Reentry Conferences
Philanthropy & Public Policy
WHAT ORGANIZERS SAY
