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Ravin Jesuthasan

Author, Futurist and Senior Partner and Global Leader for Transformation Services, Mercer

Ravin Jesuthasan is a recognized global thought leader, futurist and bestselling author on the future of work, AI and workforce transformation. He works with some of the largest, most sophisticated organizations in the world on the transformation of work and the workforce. Ravin has led numerous research projects for the World Economic Forum including its ground-breaking studies; Shaping the Future Implications of Digital Media for Society, Creating a Shared Vision for Talent in the 4th Industrial Revolution, HR 4.0: Shaping People Strategies in the 4th Industrial Revolution and Human Capital as an Asset: An Accounting Framework for to Reset the Value of Talent in the New World of Work. He is a regular participant and presenter at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos and is a member of the forum’s Steering Committee on Work and Employment and its Future Skills Alliance.Ravin has been a featured speaker on the aforementioned topics at major conferences around the world. He is a regular keynote speaker at global events like the Milken Institute Global Conference, Horassis Global conference, MIT’s Emtech Next conference, The QSP Summit in Porto, Gartner’s Reimagine, HR Tech in Las Vegas, the World AI Summit, C2 in Montreal, Beyond HR in Amsterdam and the Peryon People Management Summit in Istanbul among others.He has also been featured and quoted extensively by leading business media including CNN, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CNBC, Fortune, FT, The Nikkei (Japan), Les Echoes (France), De Telegraaf (Netherlands), Valor Economico (Brazil), Business Times (Malaysia), Globe and Mail (Canada), South China Morning Post, Dubai One TV and The Australian among others. Ravin was also an advisor to and featured prominently on PBS’s widely acclaimed documentary series The Future of Work. Ravin is a frequent guest lecturer at universities around the world including Caltech, Oxford University, Northwestern University, New York University and the University of Southern California. Ravin is a member of the faculty at Caltech.Ravin was named one of the leading management thinkers by Thinkers 50. He has also been recognized as one of the top 25 most influential consultants in the world by Consulting Magazine, one of the top 8 future of work influencers by Tech News and one of the top 100 HR influencers by HR Executive. He is the author of 6 books including the Wall Street Journal and Amazon number one bestseller; Work Without Jobs: How to Reboot Your Organization’s Work Operating System (MIT Press, 2022), which was also named business book of the year in 2023. His upcoming books are The Skills-Powered Organization: The Journey to the Next Generation Enterprise (MIT Press, 2024) and The Fast Future Blur (Wiley, 2024). Ravin has authored over 250 articles including 15 for the Harvard Business Review and the Sloan Management Review. He is also a regular contributor to Forbes Magazine.

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Tue, May 13, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm MT

The Skills Powered Organization: The Journey to the Next Generation Enterprise

STEP UP FOR LEADERS

In an increasingly machine-augmented world, learning, unlearning and relearning will be pivotal to the future of organizations and talent. The right question isn’t which jobs are going to be replaced, but rather, what work will be redefined, and how. The future of work requires an ability to ensure that the organization, its work and its workforce are perpetually being reinvented to ensure their sustained relevance even as they are continually being rendered obsolete.

Leveraging insights from his most recent bestseller, The Skills Powered Organization: The Journey to the Next Generation Enterprise, futurist and Senior Partner and Global Leader for Transformation Services at Mercer, Ravin Jesuthasan, will share insights into the context for why skills are increasingly the currency for work, frameworks for shaping the journey to becoming a skills-powered organization and case studies that demonstrate the exponential gains in agility, productivity and profitability that are possible.

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Ravin Jesuthasan

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