Jan Bray

Janet Bray is the Chief Strategist and founder of Bray Strategies and brings a unique perspective and vision to best practices for connecting education and industry for a relevant, skilled workforce. For more than eleven years, Janet served as the Executive Director of the Association for Career and Technical Education, a not-for-profit association representing over 30,000 professionals across the United States. As Executive Director, Janet managed the staff and oversaw the development of program services for the members of the association and the CTE profession. She provided leadership on a broad spectrum of education and workforce issues and directed the strategic public policy and public awareness efforts of the association.

Janet serves as a Senior Advisor to the National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) and has provided her expertise and knowledge on several DOL and workforce training/apprenticeship grants and the development of the annual Forum.

Janet has also assisted National Propane Gas Association, National Association of Landscape Professionals, Coalition for Career Development Center, Sheet Metal, Air Conditioning Contractors, Strada Education, National Restaurant Association Education Foundation, Manufacturing Skills Standards Institute, National Coalition of Certification Centers, Career Readiness Institute, Pathways to Prosperity project, Global Pathways Institute, Ideagen, Innovate-Educate, Department of Labor work on career pathways and apprenticeship programs, ed2go/Cengage, and The Hope Street Group.

Janet has represented the career and technical education and workforce profession on a number of Boards and advisory groups including the Home Builders Institute Board of Trustees, Manufacturing Skills Standards Council, Physicians Assistants Foundation, HVACR Education Foundation, ANSI Certificate Program Accreditation Committee, DOL Labor Apprenticeship Advisory Committee, Workforce Solutions Group and the Board of the U.S. Partnership for Education for Environmental Sustainability.