644: How to Sharpen Your Skills for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet with Michelle Weise

Michelle Weise sheds light on the learning challenges professionals will face in the near future—and how we can prepare for them. 




— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) How to surface your hidden skills 

2) How to keep AI from making you irrelevant 

3) Nifty tools for upskilling quickly 




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— ABOUT MICHELLE — 

Michelle Weise was just named to the Thinkers50 thinkers to watch in 2021. She is senior advisor to Imaginable Futures, a venture of The Omidyar Group, and BrightHive, a data collaboration platform. 

She is former chief innovation officer of Strada Education Network and Southern New Hampshire University. She led the higher education practice at Clay Christensen’s Institute for Disruptive Innovation. Her most recent book is LONG LIFE LEARNING: Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet (Wiley, 2020). Her first book, with Clay Christensen (2014) is Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution. 

• Michelle’s book: Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don't Even Exist Yet 

• Michelle’s LinkedIn: Michelle R. Weise 

• Michelle’s Twitter: @rwmichelle 

• Michelle’s website: RiseAndDesign.io 




— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Tool: Freestyle2 Keyboard for PC 

• Website: Skills Match 

• Software: GLEAC 

• Software: Mursion 

• Company: FutureFit AI 

• Company: Skyhigh Manpower Recruitment International 

• Company: InnoCentive 

• Company: Climb Hire 

• Book: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein 

• Book: Beloved by Toni Morrison 

• Previous episode: 376: How to Become the Success Nobody Saw Coming: Research Insights into “Dark Horses” from Harvard’s Todd Rose 




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