Bill Symonds is Director of the Global Pathways Institute at ASU, and Executive Secretary of the national Coalition for Career Development (CCD). The Global Pathways Institute was created in 2014 and annually holds the Western Pathways Conference to highlight the work being done to create more effective state career pathway systems. The 2020 Conference will be held in Kansas City. (www.westernpathways.com) The Coalition for Career Development includes more than three dozen prominent business, education and government organizations. In January, the Coalition convened the National Career Development Summit. Our White Paper – Career Readiness for All –is available here: (www.coalitionforcareerdevelopment.org) Earlier, Symonds helped launch the Pathways to Prosperity Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was the primary author of the seminal report: Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century.