Reimagining Your Workforce: Breaking Barriers Together Kansas City

The Reimagining Your Workforce conference brings together employers, community leaders, workforce professionals, and service providers to explore practical strategies for finding, hiring, and retaining talent from often-overlooked workforce populations.

The conference will highlight employer experiences, lived perspectives, and regional resources that support successful fair-chance hiring. Participants will examine common workplace barriers, learn strategies that strengthen retention and performance, and identify partnership-based solutions that help employers respond to current workforce demands.

The goal is to provide employers with realistic, business-focused tools and connections that support stronger workplaces, dependable employees, and long-term regional economic vitality.

Conference Highlights

• Employers share strategies that improve retention, reliability, communication, and workplace performance
• Local programs, incentives, and resources available to support employers and employees
• Employer and lived-experience perspectives that inform realistic workforce solutions
• Opportunities to build partnerships with workforce and community organizations

Dates: October 8–9, 2026

8th: 10 AM - 1:00 PM

9th: 9:30 AM -3:30 PM

Location: Historic Hiram Young School
Address: 501 N. Dodgion Ave., Independence, MO 64050

Cost: $20

All registrations click credit card payment to progress through the registration process. 

For more information contact Amy Patillo, MU Extension, patilloa@missouri.edu