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Jobs Outlook: Finding workplace culture, balancing demand with available talent among top workforce challenges

Employers will have to work to determine their in-office culture and manage openings with ongoing labor challenges in 2024, according to employment experts who participated in the Business Record’s Jobs Outlook panel discussion held on …
By Business Record Staff | Oct 23, 2023
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Broadlawns hosts open house, ribbon-cutting for new pediatric clinic

Broadlawns Medical Center hosted an open house and ribbon-cutting last week at the newly renovated Broadlawns Variety Pediatric Clinic, located on the lower level of the Medical Office Building at 1801 Hickman Road in Des …
By Business Record Staff | Oct 23, 2023
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World Food Prize side event to cover food insecurity’s effect on national security

A World Food Prize side event on Tuesday will cover the relationship between global food insecurity and threats to U.S. national security, including migration, radicalization, environmental degradation and lost economic growth. Panelists will discuss how …
By Business Record Staff | Oct 23, 2023
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Wittstruck joins United Way as chief equity, talent officer

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Naomi Sea Young Wittstruck has been named chief equity and talent officer for the United Way of Central Iowa.

Wittstruck will join the United Way on Oct. 30. In her new …
By Business Record Staff | Oct 23, 2023
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NorthRock, Sammons Financial partner to transform wealth management and advice industry

NorthRock Partners, a Minneapolis, Minn.-based full-service financial and lifestyle advisory firm, and Sammons Financial Group, a Midwest-based financial services company, announced a partnership aimed at enhancing and expanding a client-centric approach to the traditional wealth …
By Business Record Staff | Oct 20, 2023
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City, AMOS start recruitment for Community Land Trust advisory committee

The city of Des Moines and A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy (AMOS) are accepting applications from community stakeholders interested in sitting on the advisory committee for a proposed Community Land Trust in an effort to reserve …
By Business Record Staff | Oct 20, 2023
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Iowa businessman pledges $25M gift to UNI College of Business

Holly and David Wilson at the announcement of David Wilson’s $25 million gift to the University of Northern Iowa College of Business in Cedar Falls. Photo provided by University of Northern Iowa

The University of …
By Sarah Diehn | Oct 20, 2023
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Jethro’s BBQ downtown Des Moines restaurant opens

Jethro’s BBQ All Stars Downtown opened this week, after more than a year spent converting a former office building into a restaurant.

The restaurant, the ninth in entrepreneur Bruce Gerleman’s chain of barbeque establishments, is …
By Kathy A. Bolten | Oct 20, 2023
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What they’re checking out: Week of Oct. 20

As an ongoing feature, staff members at the Des Moines Public Library will recommend a business-related book to add to your reading list. Find this and more books like it at any of the Des …
By Business Record Staff | Oct 20, 2023
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A Closer Look: Stephanie Oppel

Stephanie Oppel looks to her family for inspiration when it comes to helping ICON Water Trails reach its full potential as a recreation and placemaking attraction that can help the region attract and retain talent, …
By Michael Crumb | Oct 20, 2023