The Skills Forecast Episode 2: Measuring AI Workforce Readiness - What High-Performing Organizations Are Doing Differently

AI is reshaping work faster than most organizations can track. Skills leaders face increasing pressure from executives to demonstrate that their workforce is ready for what’s coming next — yet many still lack reliable ways to measure capability at scale

Most organizations still rely on activity data to answer capability questions: course completions, self-ratings, or manager observations. But these signals rarely tell leaders whether their workforce can actually apply AI skills in real work.

Join Kathi Enderes, Ph.D., SVP Research and Global Industry Analyst at The Josh Bersin Company, and Jim Hemgen, former architect of Booz Allen Hamilton’s AI workforce capability program for 33,000 employees, for a research-grounded conversation on how leading organizations are moving beyond activity metrics to measure true workforce readiness.

Join them for a candid, research-grounded discussion on what separates organizations that can confidently answer the readiness question from those still guessing.

You'll leave knowing:

• What Bersin's 2026 research reveals about how high-performing organizations are actually measuring workforce readiness — and what they're doing differently
• The emerging shift from training programs to capability systems, and why visibility into workforce skills is the missing layer
• Practical ways organizations are connecting learning investment to talent mobility, project staffing, and business outcomes

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