Northwest Missouri State University-Kansas City will be holding a business forum next week to learn about some of the needs of area businesses.

Rebecca Lobina is the Continuing Professional Education Director for Northwest.

Lobina said the Northwest-Kansas City satellite location has been open for a little over a year and they wanted to offer a forum in an effort to better understand the needs of the business community.

“We want to hear from business managers, HR people, every industry from manufacturing to doctors, lawyers, the healthcare field, IT field,” Lobina said. “We want to hear from them on what their workforce needs are, what skill gaps they’re seeing. We’d like to hear it first hand, directly from them, so that we can figure out how to better partner with the business community and bring program offerings that will help them.”

The forum takes place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, February 20th, at the Northland Innovation Campus in Gladstone, 6889 North Oak Trafficway in Gladstone.

For more information, click here or contact Rebecca Lobina at at [email protected] or (816) 844-7865.