SYRACUSE, N.Y. — CenterState CEO recently appointed Danielle Szabo as director of industry partnerships for construction, a newly created position. In this role, Szabo is responsible for managing industry-focused workforce-development activities, especially within the construction industry. The goal is to help companies grow while creating career pathways for unemployed and underemployed Central New Yorkers, the […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — CenterState CEO recently appointed Danielle Szabo as director of industry partnerships for construction, a newly created position.
In this role, Szabo is responsible for managing industry-focused workforce-development activities, especially within the construction industry. The goal is to help companies grow while creating career pathways for unemployed and underemployed Central New Yorkers, the regional economic-development organization said in an announcement.
Szabo comes to CenterState CEO from Ithaca Area Economic Development, where she served as director of workforce innovation for the last three years, according to her LinkedIn profile. In that role, Szabo collaborated with employers, educational partners, and community-based organizations to address workforce needs of key sector businesses in Ithaca and Tompkins County. That included designing and implementing initiatives to improve career awareness and creating inclusive pathways and programs to support area employers.
In her new position at CenterState CEO, Szabo is also co-leading the Syracuse Build initiative and its replication in three counties while overseeing workforce-development strategies and employer engagement in advanced manufacturing and other high-tech industries.
Szabo has more than 17 years of experience in the nonprofit, workforce, and economic-development sectors with a focus on social justice and economic inclusion. That includes previously working at CenterState CEO as director of programming for its Work Train initiative from 2009-2019, per her LinkedIn page. Szabo also has previously worked at Cayuga Economic Development Agency.
