CEO, WeWork
JOHN SANTORA
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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EXPAND
WEWORK
LOOKS TO
EVP, People, Culture & Communications, bp
KERRY DRYBURGH
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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EMERGING
NEW SKILLS FOR
CEO, OneTen
DEBBIE DYSON
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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DEFINE JOB ROLES
USING SKILLS TO
CEO, Etsy
JOSH SILVERMAN
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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HELPS US SHOP
AI THAT
OPPORTUNITIES
29%
Source: Forbes Research CxO Growth Survey 2024
Only 29% of C-suite executives said providing
AI training is a top talent priority over the next
12 months.
Most Organizations Have Yet To Invest In AI Training
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
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
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 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