Larry Good

Larry Good currently serves as President Emeritus and Senior Consultant, after retiring from his role as President & CEO at CSW in 2022. In his role as President & CEO, Larry provided strategic leadership across CSW’s work. Larry engaged with national, state, and local policy and practice leaders as part of CSW’s efforts to provoke change in public policy and investment in workforce development.

Larry is a national leader in designing and implementing transformative workforce development change strategies that deliver systemic, scalable results. He is co-author of Modernizing and Investing in Workforce Development, a comprehensive set of strategy and funding recommendations. Larry co-led the Credential As You Go initiative, centered on integrating smaller credentials around degrees in postsecondary education to document the knowledge and skills learners acquire.

Major initiatives Larry has been a leader on include:

• Connecting Credentials, a five-year partnership with Lumina Foundation to engage more than 100 stakeholder groups in shared cause to build competency-based interconnections among degree and nondegree credentials.
• Detroit workforce strategy, supporting the city and many partners in transforming their services and strategic investments to increase skills and employment of city residents.
• No Worker Left Behind, helping the State of Michigan craft and operate a pioneering strategy to support 160,000 at risk adult workers in engaging in postsecondary education to help gain skills for reemployment.

Larry co-founded CSW in 1991, and served as its initial president through 2005. He was CSW’s Board Chair from 2006-2017 and worked as a senior fellow until returning to the role of President and CEO in October 2019.

Larry has an MBA from Michigan State University and a BA in political science from Oakland University in Michigan.