Dr. Nick Van Dam is a professor of Corporate Learning & Leadership Development. He is keenly interested in the emerging insights from the fields of positive development including: Psychology, Sociology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Andragogy and Philosophy. These all have enormous potential to transform people development and to lead to the creation of healthy, humanly sustainable organizations.
The world of work faces an epochal transition. By 2030 as many as 375 million workers—or roughly 14 percent of the global workforce—may need to switch occupational categories as the pandemic, digitization, automation, and advances in artificial intelligence disrupt the world of work. The kinds of skills companies require will shift, with profound implications for the career paths individuals will need to pursue. In this session, Dr. Nick van Dam will provide a view on how the pandemic and automation will shape the future of work and the workplace, and calibrated to sensitivities around the economy, productivity, job creation and skills.