There’s a familiar script playing out in organizations right now. AI pressure mounts. Leadership panics. HR gets tasked with finding “AI talent.” Job postings go up. Budgets get stretched. And somehow, six months later, the team isn’t meaningfully more capable of using AI than when they started.
Sound familiar?
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: the default response to AI pressure (hiring externally or replacing people with automation) often misses the real opportunity sitting right inside your organization.
The Talent You Already Have
Before you build anything meaningful with AI, you need to understand who you have. What they’re capable of. Where they can grow.
That’s the premise behind a free fireside chat happening on Wednesday, July 22 at 11 AM ET, featuring two leaders who have spent decades navigating data and technology transformation:
– Merav Yuravlivker, Chief Learning Officer at Data Society, who leads the organization’s approach to AI education, workforce transformation, and learning strategy
– Liz Eversoll, CEO of Career Highways and a technology executive with 30+ years building and scaling enterprise software and workforce tech companies
Their conversation, Your People Are the Strategy: Rethinking Talent in the AI Era, is designed for leaders who are tired of chasing tools and ready to build something that lasts.
What a Skills-First Approach Actually Looks Like
The framing of “do we hire or do we upskill” is a false choice, but only if you have visibility into what your team is already capable of.
Most organizations don’t. They know job titles and tenure. They don’t know who has adjacent skills that could be developed, who’s already experimenting with AI on their own, or which roles are quietly becoming obsolete while everyone looks the other way.
A skills-first approach flips the script. It starts with an honest assessment of your current workforce, not to make cuts, but to make smarter investments. The organizations that are getting AI right aren’t the ones with the biggest hiring budgets. They’re the ones who built clarity about their people first.
Merav and Liz will get into the specifics: how to spot skill gaps without overcomplicating the process, how to prioritize where to invest, and what it actually looks like to support employees whose roles are changing before those changes become crises.
Why This Conversation Is Worth Your Time
This isn’t a vendor pitch. It’s not a panel of consultants describing best practices they’ve never had to implement under real organizational pressure.
These are two operators who have lived through multiple waves of technological change and come out with clear-eyed, practical frameworks for what works. The format is a fireside chat, which means it’s honest, conversational, and built for the questions leaders are actually asking but often don’t say out loud.
You’ll walk away with a concrete first step you can take this quarter, even if your organization hasn’t touched workforce strategy for AI yet.
Who Should Be in the Room
This event is built for leaders who own decisions about people and capability: Chief People Officers, HR leaders, C-suite executives navigating talent decisions, AI and analytics leaders building internal capabilities, and people managers supporting teams whose work is evolving.
If you’re responsible for helping your organization get AI-ready, not just by buying tools but by building real, lasting capability, this conversation is for you.
Reserve Your Free Spot
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 | 11 AM ET Free. Live. No vendor pitch.
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