radshaw's extensive experience encompasses a myriad of industries
in the public and private sectors which provides unrivaled solutions
for California Strategies' clients.
Bradshaw focuses primarily on employment relations and economic
development opportunities. Clients benefit from her services as she has
an expertise dealing with every area of employment including such
issues as labor law and CalOSHA enforcement, workers' compensation
and other benefit administration, workforce development and public
works. With regards to economic development, Bradshaw works to
expand growth opportunities for clients in California's challenging
business environment by helping them navigate California's extensive
regulatory red tape, assisting clients to leverage business and industry
benefits for competitive advantage and to work towards creating
e ective public-private-partnerships. ere is no one in California who
has the breadth of state government employment, benefit, workforce
development and economic development experience as Bradshaw.
Bradshaw served as Cabinet Secretary and Deputy Chief of Sta under
both Governor Pete Wilson and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. ese
two experiences have given her a unique opportunity to work with all agencies,
departments, boards and commissions under the Executive Branch of state
government in both the development and implementation of policy in these
areas, as well as in the administration and management of these functions.
As secretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, Bradshaw oversaw
an annual budget of $27 billion and 14,000 employees which impacted all 1.4 million
employers doing business in the state, along with most of California's 16 million
employees. In this position she had management, policy and budgetary control over all
of the areas under the Labor and Workforce Development Agency.
Bradshaw has served as the State Labor Commissioner, Director of the Employment
Development Department (EDD), Board Member of the Occupational Safety and Health
Standards Board, Executive Director of the Employment Training Panel (ETP) under
Governors Wilson and Davis, Chair of the Economic Strategy Council, Chair of the
California Workforce Investment Board, Board Member of the California Association for
Local Economic Development, and Chair of the Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley.
Bradshaw currently serves as a Board Member on the Little Hoover Commission and as
Vice Chair of the Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley.
Before coming to the public sector, Bradshaw served in several executive positions in the
retail industry. She was the corporate Vice President of Human Resources for the BATUS
Retail Group headquartered in New York City. BATUS Retail Group had more than
60,000 employees nationwide and operated 16 companies including Saks Fifth Avenue,
Marshall Field & Company, Kohl's, Breuner's, Gimball's and Frederick and Nelson. Prior
to the merger of BATUS and Marshall Field & Company, she served as the Vice President
of Human Resources of Marshall Field & Company in Chicago. She has also held
executive level positions in human resources, merchandising and operations at such retail
companies as Weinstock's, the Emporium, Breuner's and Robinson's of Florida.
Bradshaw has a Bachelors of Arts degree in political science and history from the University
of California at Davis and a Masters degree in Public Administration from the California
State University at Sacramento.
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Victoria Bradshaw
vbradshaw@calstrat.com
Career Highlights:
· Cabinet Secretary for Governors Wilson and Schwarzenegger
· Secretary of the Labor Workforce Development Agency
· Corporate Vice President for Human Resources for the BATUS Retail Group
· Economic Development
· Employment Relations
· Workforce Development Planning