Having been intel corp.’s director of construction for 12 years, Tom Weise could have retired, in 2008, to a life of leisure in sunny Arizona. But with a key industry mission still ahead, that’s not what he had in mind.
Instead, Weise embarked full time on a new career, to ensure that industry firms and the owners for whom they work don’t run short of future craft and management talent. The vehicle for his crusade is Junior Achievement (JA), the world’s largest program to educate K-12 students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. More than 4 million U.S. students participated last year