Beth Wozniak on workforce development
From CEOs of Mayo, U.S. Bank and nVent on Midwestern leadership — North Star Summit 2025 · · Star Tribune
“When we're looking at core manufacturing talent, we're recruiting from the local community and we work with technical colleges to drive apprenticeships — not everyone wants to go into a career in manufacturing, so showing how exciting it is and creating pathways is really important.”
On , Beth Wozniak, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board at NVENT ELECTRIC PLC, spoke about workforce development during CEOs of Mayo, U.S. Bank and nVent on Midwestern leadership — North Star Summit 2025 on Star Tribune.
About Beth Wozniak
Beth Wozniak, chair and CEO of nVent Electric, has discussed the company's growth and its role in the expanding electrical infrastructure market. In July 2025, she noted that nVent's market capitalization had grown from under $4 billion to $12 billion since its 2018 stock exchange listing, attributing the growth to electrification and AI data center demand. Wozniak stated that the company has expanded its manufacturing capability in Minnesota and is adding hundreds of jobs, and she highlighted nVent's liquid cooling technology for data centers as a key product. She described the company's use of AI as still in its early stages, applied to coding, cybersecurity, and transactional functions. At the North Star Summit in November 2025, Wozniak said that nVent is expanding into a new facility in Blaine, Minnesota, and is hiring locally while working with technical colleges on apprenticeships. She stated that the electrical grid's capacity, which took a century to build, needs to double in the next 25 years, and that nVent's products are critical to that buildout. Wozniak also described liquid cooling as capable of reducing energy use in data centers by about 50%, and said that AI should complement human work by synthesizing data so employees can respond to customers with empathy.