We need a lot of cognitive diversity to bring the best. So I think of it as skills-based plus having diverse talent is really what equals innovation.”
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Chief Leadership & Human Resources Officer, Accenture
ANGELA BEATTY
Eighty-five percent of Americans, Republicans and Democrats, want something to get done on childcare, and we have to treat it as a nonpartisan issue. Business is critical to that.”
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Founder, Girls Who Code and Founder & CEO, Moms First
RESHMA SAUJANI
The youngest generation of our colleagues is using new language. They use the A’s: attention, awareness, acceptance. … How do we move in the direction of human skills that mirror what they are saying their specific needs are.”
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Chief Learning Officer, Deloitte
ANTHONY STEPHAN
Our smartphone, email, the internet:
Those platforms transformed every single one of your jobs. … AI is that type of technology. So when we talk about AI skills, you have to get very specific about the job.”
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Chief Human Resources Officer, IBM
NICKLE LAMOREAUX
We are in a world, in an industry, where we don’t have a lot of physical goods, right? So, it’s your employees that are really like the core asset that you have to serve your customers.”
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Founder & CEO,
Calendly
TOPE AWOTONA
If that [AI-powered] agent is going to be paid for through dollars that were originally budgeted for human capital, how do we know that those trade-offs are good?”
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CEO, Lattice
SARAH FRANKLIN
Only 29% of C-suite executives said providing AI training is a top talent priority over the next 12 months.
Source: Forbes Research CxO Growth Survey 2024
Most Organizations Have Yet To Invest In AI Training
29%
It's about moving from an international oil company to an integrated energy company. There are new areas of business and skill we’re trying to create … and the U.S. is a core part of that strategy.”
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EVP, People, Culture & Communications, bp
NEW SKILLS
FOR EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES
KERRY DRYBURGH
Landlords have been moving into providing amenities to their tenants, but they also continue to have big blocks of space that are open. Adding us … will help them fill that last 10% to 15%.”
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CEO, WeWork
WEWORK LOOKS
TO EXPAND
JOHN SANTORA
Skills first is as simple as it says: How do you think about the skills first before you think about every other element around how you might hire talent?”
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CEO,
OneTen
USING SKILLS TO
DEFINE JOB ROLES
DEBBIE DYSON
When you search for rings … we're gonna have well over 1 million. … So what are the 30 out of a million things we should choose? That is an incredible AI challenge.”
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CEO,
Etsy
AI THAT
HELPS US SHOP
JOSH SILVERMAN
