Honda VP Yvette Hunsicker: “Let’s get young girls excited in engineering; We need a diverse array of ideas to invent, develop and perfect products for the future”

Focus on the next generation workforce in ways that may be different to past thinking. For example, I believe we have to let our high school students know that manufacturing is a great career. Four-year colleges may not be for everyone and the two-year technical schools have a great future to offer.

Get young girls excited in engineering. We need a diverse array of ideas to invent, develop and perfect products for the future and this starts with having gender and ethnic representation at the table.

Remember that it is all right to dream. Honda is a company that is built on the power of dreams. I look at my own career and think of it as a dream come true. Therefore, I think it is critical that we all…

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