About this workshop
Firstly, thank you again to Jeff and the team at Pepsi for asking me to work with them on the development of their new five year Learning and Development (L&D) strategy which will not only be rolled throughout the entire PepsiCo organisation but will also be one of the world’s most progressive and future proof L&D programs the world has ever seen as the teams insatiable appetite to explore everything the future has to offer, warts and all as they say, continues to amaze me and set the standard for other organisations. Organisations who, let’s face it, continuously highlight that hiring and retaining the right talent is one of their biggest issues to solve, even though as I’ve shown time and time again we can solve it with the right amount of foresight and the right corresponding L&D strategies and company support.
There is no doubt that today we are facing a work revolution not unlike the one we witnessed during the first Industrial Age where increasingly powerful and performant technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) upend blue collar work, through the development of increasingly sophisticated robotic systems, such as Humanoid Robots, and also white collar work where it is increasingly automating cognitive work.
With many consulting companies, including the WEF, saying that by the end of the decade they expect AI to be able to either partially or fully automate up to 80% of jobs, and with some of the CEO’s like Sam Altman of OpenAI saying that in time AI will automate 100% of jobs and that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will be an AI that “is capable of outperforming all humans at all economically valuable work,” and even building companies, it’s not an understatement to say that the global workforce will face unprecedented change in the years and decades ahead.
So, with that as our backdrop during this workshop I take a deep dive into the future of AI, the technology, and then focus on how we minimise the downsides for the workforce, how we use it to lift everyone up in ways they couldn’t imagine, and look at how we adapt successfully to this new paradigm. Then, I explore how it could fundamentally change company structures forever before diving into my first of a kind Future of Jobs and Work framework which was developed for the sole purpose of being able to not only identify the human jobs of the future, the ones that can’t be automated successfully or fully, and the skills needed, but also the highest paid jobs in the future.
