David has spent his career innovating in lifelong learning–both corporate training and higher education. He is the co-founder of Degreed & The Future of Work Studios. He is on a mission to future proof our workforce and companies, help the world speak the language of skills instead of college degrees and use learning and skills to enable everyone to fulfil their personal missions. He is the co-author of the Expertise Economy and is an expert on the future of credentials and skills.
Show Notes
“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” –Claude Bernard
David has made it his mission to future proof workforce and companies. During a conversation on The Entrepreneurial You, some guiding principles that organizations can use to build the skills of their team members were explored. These are:
- Make learning a competitive advantage
- Embrace personalized learning
- Combat content overload
- Succeed with the right technology
- Understand the power of peers
- Analyze your employee’s skills with data and insights
- Make skills and expertise count
Here is a snippet of what David shared:
“Degreed was born from the question when you ask someone “tell me about your education?”, they tell you where they went to university or what degree they got, or that they didn’t go to university. And it’s a reflection of the fact that we have only one language in which to answer for education or skills, and that’s the diploma. And we believe that in this world of lifelong learning, that’s absurd. It’s crazy. And it isn’t that college is crazy. When you think about it if I were to ask you, “tell me about your health Heneka. And you said, “I ran a marathon 12 years ago”. When someone says, tell me about your education, and you say, I graduated from Colorado State, or whatever it might be. It’s not that marathons are absurd, but that would be an absurd answer to tell me about your health. And it’s not that university is absurd, but it’s an absurd answer when you ask someone “tell me about your education and they tell you where they went to university”
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