Since 2008, Massachusetts has made significant financial, policy, and people investments in the life sciences, including building a broad-based effort to expand pathways to produce diverse talent to drive the industry. The state was positioned to create a coordinated workforce strategy to support the life sciences due to a foundation of higher education driving the innovation hub of life sciences, a long-standing partnership between industry, government, primary education, higher education, and non-profit organizations, as well as a historicial commitment to education and workforce training. The Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation (MassBioEd), and its partners, are taking life sciences education and workforce development to the next level by supporting K-12 teachers and students with hands-on lab-based activities through a comprehensive district-based program, expaning partnerships between industry and public colleges, introducing adult career changes to life sciences career pathways through education and training opportunities, and training diverse adult talent for industry by adapting the proven regsitered apprenticeship model to biotech. Learn how this continuum of services engages partners in government, industry, and education to make biotech workforce more representative of Massachusetts’ population and how the lessons learned in this work can be applied in other states.