{"id":126156,"date":"2026-01-21T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126156\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:04:09","slug":"beacon-councils-talent-bridge-miami-leverages-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126156\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacon Council\u2019s Talent Bridge Miami leverages workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"

\tWritten by Kelly Sanchez<\/a> on January 21, 2026<\/p>\n

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The Miami-Dade Beacon Council has plans for initiatives and outreach missions in 2026 to drive economic development in the county by continuing to foster international relationships, marketing Miami and supporting small businesses.<\/p>\n

When it comes to initiatives, one of the council\u2019s tasks is to support companies that are moving to Miami as well as those already here.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne big bucket of work is to run the attraction-retention of companies, and that\u2019s how we support companies in landing here in Miami and companies that are here and staying here,\u201d said Beacon Council President and CEO Rodrick Miller. \u201cThat\u2019s very tactical. It might be things from helping them understand different incentives, providing market data, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Miller added that the council had its \u201cthird best year ever last year,\u201d with more than $1 billion in new investment in Miami in over 3,000 jobs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe anticipate another year that\u2019s going to be a strong year this year,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had a lot of investment internationally from Spain, from Brazil, from all over the world really, and we anticipate that continuing.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that the international community is part of the reason there\u2019s such a strong international showing, \u201cbut it\u2019s also because [the council has] worked very diligently over the years to establish relationships in those markets.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re consistently going to the markets where we see that there is high demand for the things that we\u2019re good at, the sectors that we\u2019re good at, and that there are quality companies coming out of that, and we anticipate that that\u2019s going to continue,\u201d Mr. Miller said.<\/p>\n

Another bucket of work, he said, is how the council markets Miami, which supports the first function. This encompasses how and where it tells Miami\u2019s story, both in digital forms and missions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe third area that we do is what we consider market competitiveness, or shaping the future,\u201d he said. \u201cHow do we make the market fundamentally better? We\u2019ve got some initiatives \u2026 in that area and some things that we\u2019re going to start.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Beacon Council has been focusing on what the talent pool means to companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the initiative side of things, over the last year we\u2019ve been spending a lot of time talking about talent,\u201d Mr. Miller said. \u201cWhy have we been doing that? Well, the number-one driver of investment decisions by companies is their access to talent that has the capacity to do what it needs to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, he said, $1 million was allocated out of the state legislature to lead an initiative called Talent Bridge Miami that connects employers, educators and talent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe built the, I would say, prototype for a portal that supports companies in accessing data around what\u2019s happening in the market as it relates to work,\u201d Mr. Miller said. \u201cThis portal also serves as a connector between industry and training providers, because we know that these connections are vital, and this portal also provides insights on what\u2019s happening in those sectors in terms of what skillsets are needed in the major challenges that companies are having, so talent\u2019s going to continue to be a major focus for us going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

The council is also working toward providing more support for small and emerging enterprises, not only because Miami is a small business town but \u201cto make sure [they] coordinate with [their] partners throughout the small business ecosystem so that those emerging enterprises have the support that they need.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said an education task force will probably be kicking off at the end of the second quarter \u201cthat will be focused on accessing data and putting together data and information so that there is clarity around what\u2019s happening in our education system and it\u2019s from an unbiased perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMarkets are in transition, and Miami is one of those places that\u2019s well-positioned to pivot to where the market\u2019s going,\u201d Mr. Miller said, \u201cand we see our job at the Beacon Council as really trying to be insightful in terms of where the market is heading and helping pull together the elements of public, private and nonprofit support to us so that Miami can continue to be competitive and bring the best jobs and opportunities here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Written by Kelly Sanchez on January 21, 2026 Advertisement The Miami-Dade Beacon Council has plans for initiatives and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-126156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}