On this episode of Work and the Future, Linda Nazareth talks to Paola Cecci DiMeglio, author of Building a Thriving Future: Navigating the Metaverse and Multiverse (MIT Press, 2025) and advisor on AI and virtual worlds at the United Nations. They cover:

• Why the skills of tomorrow have not yet been defined
• Why ‘The Forgetting Curve’ needs to be taken into consideration when we think about upskilling workers
• How virtual reality is already being used in training and what might come next
• The ‘Recipe for Success’ for organizations that want to invest in upskilling their workers

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 for the Redefined World of Work (2023), she is also a regular columnist for the Globe and Mail and the Host of podcast ‘Work and the Future’.

As a sought-after keynote speaker, Linda’s audiences have spanned a range of audiences and have included clients such as The Economist Magazine, LVMH, American Express, and the Bank of Montreal all of whom have benefitted from the way that she can take huge ideas and distill them into information that organizations can use for their own strategic planning purposes.

Guest:

Paola Cecchi-DimeglioHarvard expert on AI and Big Data, Behavioral Science, and Future of Work

She holds dual appointments at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government, where she chairs the ELRWMA initiative. She co-chairs the Global Initiative on AI and Virtual Worlds and leads Sustainability for AI, Big Data, and Metaverse regulation at the UN’s ITU.  She is the CEO of People Culture Data Consulting Group and inventor of I.D.E.A, and the author of Diversity Dividend (MIT Press).

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