Creative Adaptation for a Resilient Planning Workforce

Thursday, April 27, 2023

11:00 AM – 11:45 PM CDT

Location: Channel 2

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Moderator and Speaker(s)

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Heather Sauceda Hannon, AICP

Associate Director, Planning Practice and Scenario Planning
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Temple, New Hampshire

Speaker(s)

Vincent P. Bertoni, AICP (he/him/his)

Director
Los Angeles City Planning
Los Angeles, California
Antoine Bryant, NOMA, Assoc. AIA

Director, Planning & Development Dept.
City of Detroit
Detroit
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Edith Hsu-Chen

Planning directors from the largest cities in the United States discuss the future of work and changes that have affected their planning departments. New nationwide trends have implications for hiring, retention, career trajectories, office space, and land use.

Presenters describe not only what their current staff are looking for in a workplace, job, and career, but also what new applicants want, especially in junior positions. They share challenges and strategies to retain and attract planners to careers in municipal planning. They also offer land-use solutions, such as innovative approaches to adaptive reuse of office space as work evolves.

NPC Peer Reviewers assigned this presentation a learning level of Intermediate. For more on learning-level descriptions, visit our General Information Page.

Learning Objectives:

Adopt various strategies to adapt to a younger generation of planners.
Compare staffing and retention issues in planning departments across the country.
Implement changes to prepare for the future of work.