David Piontek

Enterprise talent and organizational capability leader with 30+ years of progressive leadership spanning large-scale operations, national workforce initiatives, talent strategy, leadership development, organizational effectiveness, succession planning, workforce development, enterprise learning, and transformation. Combines the perspective of an experienced business operator with deep expertise in building the people systems organizations need to execute strategy. Trusted partner who translates business challenges into scalable leadership systems, competency architecture, career pathways, and workforce strategies that strengthen organizational performance.

Builds organizational capability at the intersection of people, leadership, workforce strategy, and business execution. Brings the talent perspective to operations and the operating perspective to talent - creating leadership and workforce systems that are practical, scalable, measurable, and connected to enterprise performance.

Learning & Development | Functional Scope: Enterprise Workforce Strategy & Organizational Capability Leader at LIGHTHOUSE ELECTRIC

• Lead enterprise workforce strategy and organizational capability initiatives supporting approximately 1,500 employees across four business units and five states.
• Partner with executive, operational, HR, project, and frontline leaders to identify organizational capability, leadership readiness, succession, workforce, and performance needs.
• Architected an enterprise leadership and development system connecting role expectations, competency models, career pathways, onboarding, mentoring, readiness assessment, succession, and development.
• Created 40+ competency frameworks and 150+ workforce and leadership resources to strengthen leadership selection, preparation, advancement, consistency, and execution.
• Built development pathways spanning emerging leaders through senior operational and executive leadership; developed readiness systems to show gaps before promotion rather than relying primarily on tenure or technical performance.
• Lead Workday Learning strategy and support enterprise adoption of latest technology and processes while applying AI-enabled tools to workforce planning, curriculum, knowledge management, and executive communication.

Corporate Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition & Workforce Initiatives at CVS HEALTH

• Led national workforce initiatives supporting talent acquisition, workforce sustainability, career mobility, succession, employee development, and frontline operations within a large-scale, complex healthcare organization.
• Developed nontraditional and alternative talent pipelines addressing business and workforce needs across multiple markets, including apprenticeship, experiential learning, customized training, internships, clinical experiences, incumbent-worker development, job shadowing, on-the-job training, and targeted recruitment.
• Supported succession planning, employment transitions, career development, employee advancement, and workforce sustainability strategies.
• Built strategic relationships among business leaders and national, state, local, educational, community, and workforce partners; converted external workforce ecosystems into practical talent pipelines aligned with organizational needs.
• Worked across diverse stakeholder groups requiring collaboration, influence, executive communication, and disciplined program execution.

Director - Apprenticeship & Training Development at GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

• Directed workforce-development and apprenticeship initiatives connecting employer needs, workforce development, education, government, and talent pipelines.
• Designed and developed registered apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs across traditional and nontraditional occupations; identified skill needs and converted them into structured training and career-development solutions.
• Secured stakeholder and regulatory support through business cases, program design, presentations, and partnerships; presented workforce strategies to executive, government, employer, education, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Built partnerships designed to expand career access while creating sustainable pipelines of qualified talent for employers; influenced apprenticeship funding and resource strategies supporting approximately $2.5M in workforce-development resources.

Director of Operations | Senior Project Manager | Senior Superintendent | Superintendent | General Foreman | Foreman | Technical & Frontline Operations

• Built a 30+ year operating foundation progressing from frontline work through senior operations and project leadership in complex, safety-critical, deadline-driven environments.
• Led organizations of 100+ professionals and frontline employees with responsibility for workforce deployment, leadership, productivity, safety, quality, scheduling, customer expectations, problem solving, and execution.
• Contributed to more than $1B in cumulative project value and broader career exposure across approximately $5B in electrical business activity spanning healthcare, manufacturing, energy, technology, infrastructure, aviation, commercial, and institutional environments.
• Developed leaders at multiple levels and managed competing operational, workforce, customer, schedule, financial, and organizational priorities while maintaining focus on business outcomes.

Doctoral Studies (ABD) in Instructional Management & Leadership – Robert Morris University

Master of Education in Educational Administration – California University of Pennsylvania

Master of Education in Technology Education – California University of Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Science in Technology Education – California University of Pennsylvania