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Feel like you’re a job hopper? You’re not alone! Switching fields is, according to today’s guest, about to become the reality for most of us. Joining me in HRchat episode 516 is education and workforce strategist Dr. Michelle Weise.

Michelle is the author of Long-Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet. Her book was awarded the 2021 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature by UPCEA (University Professional and Continuing Education Association), recognizing the author and publisher of an outstanding work of continuing higher education literature. Thinkers50 named her one of 30 management and leadership thinkers in the world to watch in 2021.

Michelle leads Rise & Design, an advisory service tailored for organizations seeking to design education and workforce strategies that will prepare working-age adults for the jobs of today and tomorrow.

Getting Ready For Jobs of Tomorrow with Dr. Michelle Weise

Questions Include:

  • You lead Rise & Design, an advisory service tailored for organizations seeking to design education and workforce strategies that will prepare working-age adults for the jobs of today and tomorrow. Tell us more about the mission.
  • You talk about how the future of work = the future of education. What do you mean by that?
  • Tell me about your book, Long-Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet – what’s it about, who it’s aimed at, and what are some of the hoped-for learning outcomes?
  • You suggest that “employers will have to begin viewing themselves as not just talent consumers, but talent creators.” What do you mean by this?
  • What advice would you give to leaders and HR managers about how to shape an effective L&D program that supports worker retention and advancement?

More About Michelle

Her service work includes advising BrightHive, a data collaboration platform, the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), the SkillUp Coalition, Basta, Hitch, Bayes Impact, Clayton Christensen Institute Social Capital R&D Project, and World Education’s Personal and Workplace Success Skills Library. She has also served as a commissioner for Massachusetts Governor Baker’s Commission on Digital Innovation and Lifelong Learning, Harvard University’s Task Force on Skills and Employability, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education.

Her commentaries on redesigning higher education and developing more innovative workforce and talent pipeline strategies have been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Harvard Business Review.