About Michelle
Bio
Dr. Michelle Weise leads Long Life Learning Strategies, a consulting firm for organizations seeking to prepare working-age adults for a longer future of work. Her award-winning book, Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet, was recognized by University Professional and Continuing Education Association as the most outstanding work of continuing higher education literature in 2021. That same year, Thinkers50 named her one of 30 management and leadership thinkers in the world to watch. In the past, she has served as Vice Chancellor of Strategy and Innovation at National University System, Senior Advisor at Imaginable Futures, a venture of The Omidyar Group. She was also the Chief Innovation Officer of Strada Education Network as well as of Southern New Hampshire University. With Clayton Christensen, she coauthored Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution (2014) while leading the higher education practice at Christensen’s Institute for Disruptive Innovation. Michelle is a former Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of Harvard and Stanford.
I'm passionate about
how we thrive in an increasingly uncertain future of work and how we can ready ourselves for an AI-enabled future through long-life learning.
An idea worth spreading
Longevity experts believe that some people alive today will live to be 150 years old. The future of work is LONG. We will all need Long Life Learning to keep up. While the rise of generative AI brings exciting opportunities, the concern and uncertainty of the future of work remains. Author of Long-Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet, Michelle Weise demystifies the limitations of AI, empowering you to focus on the competitive advantage you hold in the job market: your uniquely human skills and talents.
The TED story
Like many, I first learned about TED through Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk, but I think one of the most special discoveries I made was finding out that an old college friend of mine, Shawn Achor, delivered one of the most popular TED talks of all time. I'm so proud of him and his work, and no matter how many times I watch that talk, it always makes me laugh so hard.
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