The Skills Obsession: Designing the Skills Future w/Lisa Kay Solomon of the Stanford d.school

Published: Oct. 13, 2021, 8:10 p.m.

\u201cWhat I introduce [my students] to are the kinds of skills that allow them to navigate ambiguity.\u201d If that seems like urgently-needed capability you or your team to have you\u2019re in luck, as you\u2019re about to find out a whole lot more about why you\u2019d need such a thing\u2026 and why you won\u2019t find it, alas, in to-day\u2019s conventional curriculum (including corporate L&D). In the first full episode of our new Red-Thread podcast\u2014our deep dive into what we\u2019re calling capitalism\u2019s focus on \u2018The Skills Obsession\u2019\u2014we meet passionate educator, innovator and bestselling author Lisa Kay Solomon. Designer in Resi-dence at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (\u2018the d.school\u2019) at Stanford University, Lisa presents in her dialog with Stacia, Dani and Chris something of a masterclass in what thinking about the future actually needs to consist of\u2014and how that feeds into her conviction that, \u201clearning is the currency of possibility.\u201d