Matthew Weis serves as National Able Network’s Chief Program Officer, overseeing workforce and training services for job seekers as well as business support programs. Mr. Weis joined National Able Network in 2014 to oversee career pathway programs that help vulnerable job seekers, and led significant programmatic expansion efforts of the IT Career Lab vocational training operations, as well as the IT Sector Center funded via the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership. Since his start at National Able Network, Matt has tripled IT Career Lab’s annual revenue, introduced new funding steams, and has led program expansion efforts to open four additional training locations throughout the Chicagoland area and one in Minneapolis.
Mr. Weis has been overseeing workforce programs for more than a decade, during which time he has created and led large-scale projects that have directly assisted with the re-employment of over 30,000 Illinoisans. He is a fierce advocate and practitioner of transitional jobs and other subsidized employment programs and has managed employment contracts with the Chicago Housing Authority, City of Chicago, Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership and the Illinois Department of Human Services to name a few. In 2010 as Director of Workforce Development with Heartland Alliance, he helped to conceive and manage the largest subsidized employment program in the nation – Put Illinois to Work, which assisted 27,000 Illinois residents with obtaining temporary employment and income during the height of the recession.
Mr. Weis currently serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Jobs Council.
