You in 2042 ... The Future of Work

D Surman, Global Leadership Development Manager, shares the five essential skills of future-fit leaders, insights into the future working spaces, and how L&D can be leading change ahead of the curve. 

Phil Kotacka, Senior Consultant Global Talent Development, describes the results of accelerated trends. Gone is the hierarchical, competency-based organizational model with skills-focused training. The future replaces it with a fluid, agile workforce where individuals with skills, often self-taught, assemble for specific projects. Learning and development instead faces the new challenge of reducing friction in these diversely-skilled teams to ensure individuals learn the right soft-skills to generate results. 

Jo'Ann Alderson shares the paradox of decreasing literacy as our evolving world propels into further technology-limited narratives. What's missing is communication, critical thinking, well-rounded insights, and fulsome knowledge. These are the components of true literacy and essential skills in a world of increasing citizen journalism and information limited by algorithm. Jo'Ann shares practical tips to ensure we're poised to succeed in this future workplace. Jo'Ann can be reached at www.joannalderson.com.

Training goes the way of the fanny pack in David Langoltz’s talk. David, an L&D Manager, reminds us it’s essential to focus on what people need to “do” not what they need to “know.” In the future, people will still need help in doing things they don’t know how to do. Experts will still need help bridging their expertise to others. The L&D consultant will play the pivotal role in connecting this gap.

Jihan Cercado, Senior Learning Consultant, speaks to the need to cultivate both patience and immediacy because technology is instant, yet people aren’t. This culminates in the need for deliberate empathy at scale in order to be successful in the future workplace.

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Mary Kruger explores how the future workplace will be truly flexible in location and attitude. She shares her examples of how her work isn't land-based and how technology can help makes us mentally fit, and she provokes thinking about how to adapt to support this future. 

Besides being a L&D Manager for a national organization, Mary Kruger's passion is in coaching others as an Internationally Certified Business & Career Coach at MLKCoaching.

Nazish Asim, Senior Manager, Strategy & Leadership, Learning and Development, reveals the evidence case for furthering human-centered skills, the role of bots, and the key skills that we'll need to master in order to tackle the next wave of business challenges.  She shares insights into what learning and development can do to prepare their organizations now for this future world. 

Note: Speaker views reflect their own opinion and do not represent any organization of their employment. 

Roxanne Kisson, Talent Development Manager, reflects on the acceleration of time-starved employees needing to quickly acquire skills. She shares insights about the need for quicker learning bites and new learning modalities that are readily available in the flow of work or during spare moments.

Note: Speaker views reflect their own opinion and do not represent any organization of their employment.

Michelle Ibaraki, is a sought after health and mental wellness advocate regularly appearing on Global News, CTV National News, in the legislature and numerous media outlets across the country. She speaks to the importance of a future where the stigma associated with mental health in the workplace is a long-forgotten. The increase in workplace resources, public support and societal acknowledgement will support this.

Allison Blake, educator, discusses how coding is a basic, universal skill but intuitive technology may be expected by the future workforce.  Fortunately, those in the future may be better equipped with financial literacy.