Sue Bethanis hosts Charlotte Evans, Principal Solutions Consultant at Coursera. Charlotte advises North American companies on their upskilling and reskilling learning solutions. She worked in Asia for five years in student services, where she also pursued a fellowship through the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Learners’ Voice program. Charlotte graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education (Ed.M.) in 2019 and has continued her passion for international education access through her work at Coursera.

Sue and Charlotte discuss the dual role of Gen AI in the world of Learning and Development and:

• The key elements of a skills-based learning and career development strategy
• How AI and automation help identify skills gaps and save time
• Actionable low-tech tools you can start using to foster real connections in your organization

Sue hosts Dr. Joel Pérez, an executive and leadership coach, speaker, and consultant passionate about helping leaders and organizations achieve their goals and develop a posture of cultural humility so they can have the impact and create the culture they desire.

Joel is the owner of Apoyo Coaching and Consulting, LLC, and a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF). He specializes in identity-conscious leadership coaching and coaching professionals who want to develop their cultural humility. He has a certification in the MBTI, is a Qualified Administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), is a Gallup Strengths Certified Coach, and is a certified coach through the Academy of Creative Coaching. He has over 20 years of experience in higher education, serving in various key leadership roles.

Joel earned his doctorate in higher education administration at Claremont Graduate University. He has been married for over 26 years and has four children. He enjoys cheering on the Los Angeles Dodgers and watching films.

Sue and Joel discuss his new book Dear White Leader: How to Achieve Organizational Excellence through Cultural Humility. The book focuses on helping leaders develop their cultural humility for individual, organizational, and community change.

Sue hosts futurist and cyborg anthropologist MJ Petroni. MJ specializes in helping others understand the mental models necessary to navigate digital opportunities. As a cyborg anthropologist, MJ studied shows like Star Trek at university, but not (just) for fun. Their field of study addresses the complex relationships between humans and machines, exploring how we shape technology and how it is reshaping us. They help organizations increase their Digital Fluency in preparation for future technologies, attending not just to tools but also the thinking, skills, data, and business models that comprise new value creation.

The author of Causeit’s digitalfluency.guide, MJ’s work focuses on raising the lowest common denominator of Digital Fluency for individuals, teams, and entire organizations. Since founding Causeit, Inc. in 2006, MJ has shifted thinking for hundreds of global enterprises, including NTT, Accenture, Volkswagen, the Gates Foundation, SWIFT, and several major financial and media companies, raising Digital Fluency among hundreds of thousands of professionals.

MJ is an alumnus of Lewis & Clark College, sits on the Accenture Tech Vision Advisory Board, and is a faculty member at Singularity University.

Sue and MJ discuss:

• What it means to be digitally fluent
• How to unlock new potential for yourself and your organization and raise your digital fluency
• How to manage the balance between old and new digital transformation