Corporation for a Skilled Workforce co-founder, President & CEO Larry Good has announced he will retire effective December 31, 2022 after 32 years leading CSW. In tandem, the CSW Board of Directors has selected Kysha Frazier to be CSW’s new President & CEO, effective January 1, 2023.
“I speak for workforce professionals everywhere in saying that Larry is a leader among leaders, and we will miss his voice and his passion greatly,” said Roderick Nunn, Chairman of the CSW board. “Kysha has a special way building high-performance teams internally and externally to get desirable results on-time, and on-budget. That’s what we want and that’s what our stakeholders want. I cannot think of a more qualified executive to assume the role of President & CEO of this great organization and lead us through the next part of the journey.”
Co-founding CSW in 1991, Larry was the organization’s CEO for the first 14 years of operation. He moved into serving as Board chair and senior fellow for several years before returning to the CEO role in October 2019. He has led CSW to become a high impact systems change organization that has worked in all 50 states with policy makers and practitioners to create innovative workforce strategies and solutions. He helped create CSW’s vision—a society in which every person is able to earn a family-sustaining income, achieve upward mobility, and adapt to the future— and has led major initiatives aimed at realizing that ideal. Since returning to the CEO role in late 2019, Larry led CSW in rethinking its work and internal systems, resulting in a refreshed strategy for impact now being implemented.
A key part of that strategy involved promoting Kysha, a 14-year veteran at CSW, to the role of Vice President – Policy and Strategy. “Kysha became my partner in leading a new road of reimagining CSW, and her work in organization building and strategy development have positioned CSW to be a strong and important organization for years to come,” said Good. “She’s the perfect choice to lead CSW to realize its potential moving forward.”
Kysha has already achieved a great deal of success in her role as Vice President, helping to advance CSW’s long-standing commitment to diversity as an organizational value and positioning racial equity and inclusion as a central component of CSW’s external work with clients and partners. Her hard work is responsible for building a highly talented team that has developed a healthy range of meaningful work able to support the organization’s sustainability. Using her twenty plus years of collective experience in workforce, education, and the private sector, she intends to initiate new levels of growth and agility, allowing CSW to tap into issues that are most pressing right now with partners and in communities and regions across the country.
Larry and Kysha are spending the remainder of 2022 working together to support a smooth transition between leaders.
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