Janet Ludden

Janet Ludden is Executive Vice President of Emerge Community Development with specific responsibility for 4 social enterprise businesses. These business are operated out of four locations in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. They deliver high quality products and services to business customers to create jobs for non-traditional workers. In addition to a job, trainees receive industry-recognized credentialed training, state-of-the-art employability skills training, personal and professional development skills, lean green manufacturing principles and technical skills training.Ludden has over 25 years of executive experience translating the interests of public policy makers, non-profit service providers, and for-profit businesses to identify common goals and achieve mutually beneficial results. She has communicated business needs to non-profit providers of social services and consulted with them to increase their capacity to identify and deliver to business demand and to operate more like businesses themselves. She has worked with businesses to assist them in understanding the compensable skills of non-traditional workers, diversifying their workforce to better reflect their customer and employee base, and to actively deliver to their corporate community citizenship goals.