In today’s fast-shifting marketplace, the pace of change has rendered many once-reliable skills obsolete almost overnight. The world of work no longer rewards longevity in a single method, tool, or mindset—it demands relevance, adaptability, and the courage to unlearn. What was once considered mastery can quickly become baggage in an era where technology, markets, and expectations evolve faster than institutions can retrain. Clinging to yesterday’s expertise isn’t just unwise—it’s dangerous. The shelf life of a static skillset is shrinking, and the gap between the competent and the cutting-edge is widening into a chasm.
To survive—let alone lead—in this new environment, business professionals must become fluent in transformation itself. The only sustainable edge is the ability to rewire how you think, work, and create value in real time. This isn’t about chasing trends or adding bullet points to a resume. It’s about shifting from a fixed identity to a dynamic capacity—seeing learning, iteration, and reinvention as your core competencies. In a world where the ground is constantly moving, the most future-ready individuals are those who move with it.
The UpSkilling Project is a 30-day guided experience designed to help you elevate your most essential professional skills—quickly, intentionally, and with momentum. In just 15–30 minutes per day, including weekends, you'll engage in a blend of daily writing, reflection, and active skill-building exercises, all focused on the 5–7 future-ready skills you choose to upgrade. Whether it's critical thinking, adaptive change, or influence without authority, this is your chance to level up with purpose.
The UpSkilling Project harnesses the power of AI—specifically GPT—as a dynamic, personalized companion in your skill-building journey. Rather than passively consuming information, you’ll engage in daily dialogue with GPT to reflect, challenge assumptions, brainstorm ideas, and simulate real-world scenarios tied to your chosen skills. Whether you're working through a complex problem with first-principles reasoning, crafting persuasive narratives, or experimenting with new leadership behaviors, GPT acts as an always-on thinking partner—responsive to your context, learning style, and evolving goals. This isn’t about AI replacing human growth—it’s about accelerating it through intelligent collaboration.
The UpSkilling Project is a hybrid-facilitated experience, meaning it’s primarily self-guided with light-touch support and structure to keep you on track. Designed to help you build the capacity to self-learn in a rapidly changing world, the project offers daily prompts, exercises, and AI-powered reflection tools—while weekly check-ins and light facilitation provide just enough guidance to help you stay focused, inspired, and accountable. This format empowers you to take ownership of your growth while developing the lifelong skill of learning how to learn.
You’ll join a small, committed group of peers and have the option to work with your choice of GPT to personalize your journey. Each week, your group will meet for a 1-hour live session to share insights, breakthroughs, and what's working in real time. This isn’t just about learning new skills—it’s about integrating them into how you think, work, and lead. We launch early May—come ready to evolve.
There is no cost to participate in the May 2025 project cohort.
Here’s a list of skills that will be available through this project:
Daily reading, writing reflection, and design with occasional communications from project facilitator
During the period before the project is launched and upon its conclusion, the facilitator will host a one-hour meeting. Launch meeting is intended to orient participants to the project. The purpose of the closure meeting is to recap learning and provide feedback.
The course will utilize a GPT (i.e; Chat GPT, Gemini, Grok, etc.) and you are welcome to use whichever GPT works for you. We also encourage a notetaking app (Evernote, Kortex, OneNote) or a simple Google or Word Doc will suffice.
This 30-day project is designed to kickstart your journey to building a specific set of skills that are highly relevant in an AI and technology driven marketplace. Using AI/GPT, peers, and professional facilitation, you'll create the foundation for new skills during this project.
The UpSkilling Project empowers professionals to rapidly develop future-ready skills through daily practice, reflection, and the support of small peer groups and AI companions. Our mission is to cultivate adaptable, intelligent, and human-centered leaders prepared to thrive in a world of constant change.
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