Skills@work 2025: Turning Strategy Into Skilled Action

October 15, 2025 11:30 AM
October 15, 2025 3:30 PM
Oct 15, 2025 11:30 AM
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3:30 pm
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Skills@work 2025: Turning Strategy Into Skilled Action

From Chaos to Capability: Making Skills Strategy Real in 2025

Everyone’s talking about skills. But few are getting it right.

Endless taxonomies. Tech-first solutions. AI-generated skills data with no action plan. For most organizations, the shift to a skills-based model feels more like chaos than capability.

In 2025, strategy must meet execution. It’s not just about identifying skills, it’s about building the systems, mindsets, and behaviors that activate them across the employee lifecycle. Workforce transformation isn’t coming someday. It’s already here. The question is: are your people ready?

The Skills@Work Seminar is your tactical blueprint to move from skills theory to skilled performance.

We’ll explore how to:

  • Define what “skills” really mean for your business (and why clarity beats complexity)
  • Align skills with strategy across workforce planning, learning, performance, and mobility
  • Use AI wisely, augmenting human insight, not replacing it
  • Escape the endless loop of inventory and taxonomy building and make skills real in the flow of work

You’ll walk away with:

✅ A 90-day skills activation roadmap to get real traction fast

✅ A framework to align skills to business priorities and EX outcomes

✅ A build-vs-buy guide for tech, tools, and AI-powered systems

✅ Case studies from orgs who’ve operationalized skills without boiling the ocean

✅ Tools to enable managers, empower employees, and accelerate transformation

This seminar is for HR, Talent, and L&D leaders ready to stop circling the skills conversation and start driving change that sticks.

Join us to turn strategy into skilled execution.

Agenda

Previous Speakers - 2025 Announced Soon!

Presenters

Garry Ridge
Garry Ridge
Former CEO of WD-40 Company & Founder
The Learning Moment
Alexandra Hyland
Alexandra Hyland
Global Head of Functional Learning & Culture
Kraft Heinz
Felipe G. Cofiño
Felipe G. Cofiño
Director, People & Culture
PRB
Ingrid Myers
Ingrid Myers
Director, Innovation & Optimization
Docusign
Jenna Filipkowski
Jenna Filipkowski
Organizational Effectiveness Consultant
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Matt Neylon
Matt Neylon
Chief Talent & Experience Officer
The Mount Vernon School
Vivian Blade
Vivian Blade
Adjunct Professor & Future of Work Leadership Expert
University of Louisville College of Business
Chris Wolf
Chris Wolf
Director, Learning and Development
Cardinal Group Companies
Kamaria Scott
Kamaria Scott
Founder & Global Employee Experience Leader
Enetic

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