Companies are Training the People Who Need it Least

If you plan to keep up at work you will need AI skills, which is fair enough. Where you get those skills is less clear, however, since there is marked gap between the need for those skills and the training offered to get them. The existence of an AI training gap is one thing that comes […]

Episode 156 Encore: Should Every Company Have an AI Ethicist?

Originally aired in 2024 — we’re bringing this one back because AI is now screening the job applicants, and the fairness question has only gotten sharper In this episode of Work and the Future, economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth talks to Cliff Jurkiewicz, VP of Global Strategy at Phenom: They discuss: Host: Linda Nazareth […]

Episode 155: Are Workers with Blue Collar Roots Better at Communicating Ideas ?

In this episode of Work and the Future, economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth talks to Yasha Spriha, Assistant Professor of management at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University They discuss: Host: Linda Nazareth is an economist, futurist and expert on the future of work. The author of five books including […]

Episode 155: Should You Hire Job Hoppers?

In this episode of Work and the Future, economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth talks to F. Scott Bentley, Assistant Professor of Human Resources at Rutgers University. They discuss: Host: Linda Nazareth is an economist, futurist and expert on the future of work. The author of five books including her most recent Working it Out: […]

Work and the Future Episode 154: How Should Mentoring Change in the Age of AI?

In this episode of the Work and the Future podcast economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth talks to Marlo Lyons, Executive Team and Career Coach and the Host of Podcast Work Unscripted. They discuss: Host: Linda Nazareth is an economist, futurist and expert on the future of work. The author of five books including her […]

Work and the Future Episode 153: Who Should be Leading the Implementation of AI Within Organizations?

In this episode of Work and the Future, economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth talks to Mike Sullivan, Chief Growth Offficer and Co-Founder of OneDigital and also the co-author of the book Workforce Intelligence. They discuss: Host: Linda Nazareth is an economist, futurist and expert on the future of work. The author of five books […]

Episode 152: How Does it Feel to be an Older Worker Struggling to Find Work

How Does it Feel to be an Older Worker Struggling to Find Work? In this episode of Work and the Future, economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth talks to Nicky Taylor, a former media executive who has struggled to find work as an older worker and now does random jobs including stacking shelves at a […]

Episode 151: Does Being a Star at Work Mean Being a Team Player?

In this episode of Work and the Future, economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth talks to Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Director of the Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory. They discuss: Host: Linda Nazareth is an economist, futurist and expert on the future of work. The author of five books including her most recent Working it Out: Getting Ready […]

Episode 150: Is AI Destroying Creative Thinking?

In this episode of the Work and the Future podcast economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth talks to Tony Martignetti, Chief Illumination Officer at Inspired Purpose Partners about the ways that AI is impacting creative thinking. You will learn Host: Linda Nazareth is an economist, futurist and expert on the future of work. The author […]

The Super Seven

It was a busy spring season for keynote speaking for me and I was especially happy to be able to introduce a new topic to audiences, The Super Seven: the Soft Skills Leaders Need in a Tough World.  The crux of it is this: as an economist I am only too aware of the challenges […]