Insights & trends

What we learned about the future of work and HR from 170+ talent innovators across the Fortune 1000

Your place for key insights from the Guild Opportunity Summit 2023.

On this resource page, you'll find:
→ On-demand session recording videos
→ Key takeaways from each session
→ Additional resources to explore key themes

Here’s the inspiration you need to keep your talent, business, and communities rising.

Table of contents

Session #1

Talent rising: Reimagining Guild's member experience with AI

With the half life of skills declining and occupational changes growing, we need a holistic solution (and fast) to prepare our workforces for the job landscape of the future.

See how Guild is leaning into AI to solve these challenges.
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Talent rising: Reimagining Guild's member experience with AI

Watch Bijal Shah, Guild's interim CEO, bring the vision for Guild's AI-powered future to life.

Frontline workers make up 70% of the US workforce — and are most likely to be impacted by automation.

Session #2

The impact of fostering cultures of opportunity

What does a culture of opportunity mean to you? How are the ripple effects through your organization felt? How does it translate to your bottom line?

See how investing in a culture of opportunity has transformed these companies into employers of choice with growing pipelines of talent.

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The impact of fostering cultures of opportunity

Executives from SHRM, Sam's Club, The Walt Disney Company, and Bon Secours Mercy Health give in-depth examples of how they mobilize opportunity.

Long-term cultural changes can have short-term benefits.

“SHRM just conducted research and found there’s an empathy deficit in our country. What we’re hearing from the workers, especially generation Z, 83% of them say I would leave the job that I have where I’m totally happy to go to another place where the leaders are more empathetic.”

Johnny Taylor, President & CEO, SHRM

Session #3

Strategic skilling: Innovative learning solutions for an agile and evolving workforce

It’s not just businesses that are looking for new ways to skill their workforces. Education innovators are also rethinking traditional learning structures to better prepare students for the jobs of the future.

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Strategic skilling: Innovative learning solutions for an agile and evolving workforce

Leaders from University of Maryland Global Campus, Pathstream, Outlier, and Rocket Companies are paving the way in how they serve the evolving needs of working adult learners and prepare agile workforces at scale.

You know what your business needs look like. Do you know what your employees’ needs look like? Meet Danielle.

“Everyone has woken up. There’s this new energy and focus on we can’t hire our way out of the talent needs we have. We have to learn how to build. Actually build talent from within and look across our organization of where are there individuals who are one short format learning experience away of filling a need this organization has today?”

Eleanor Cooper, CEO, Pathstream

Session #4

When our talent rises, we all rise: How the frontline is our way forward 

A panel of employees from Tyson, Target, JP Morgan Chase, and Baylor Scott & White moderated by Kiera Fernandez, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, SVP of Human Resources, Target, talk about how the dramatic impact education has had on their lives spills over into the businesses they work for.

Learner panel

When our talent rises, we all rise: How the frontline is our way forward

Meet the people who have the most to gain from your investment in education and upskilling programs: employees themselves.

Our frontline workers want to level up and leave a legacy. Will we help them get there?

“It was an eye-opener when [my son] came to me this year. He says I’m going to work at Tyson and go to Guild and we can figure out something together so we can study together. And that just made my whole world. But now I’m also seeing him talk to his friends about Guild. And I’m like what is this turning into?”

Sherry Reese, Production Supervisor, Tyson

Session #5

AI's impact on the future of work

Will artificial intelligence put everyone out of work? Will we all be eliminated? How will AI transform the jobs landscape in the future?

Peter Schwartz, Chief Futures Officer at Salesforce, brings an optimistic perspective and talks about ways AI might shape the future.

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AI's Impact on the Future of Work

As AI evolves, demand for entirely new business models and classes of human jobs will be created that will require reskilling.

Session #6

Making the case for people investments in a volatile economic environment

Executives from USAA, Darden, and Charter Communications talked about how employee expectations have changed over the last several years, and how they lean into HR’s increasingly important role to continue advocating for their workers — even in the midst of chaos.

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Making the case for people investments in a volatile economic environment

In a volatile and economically anxious climate, with a talent shortage on top, how do HR leaders appeal to their CEOs and CFOs to continue to invest in their workers?

How do HR and talent leaders balance severe market disruption with changing employee expectations?

“People are an asset on your balance sheet, and if you don’t take care of them you will lose market share.”

Sarah King, Chief People & Diversity Officer, Darden

Session #7

Fireside chat with Tara Westover, bestselling author of EDUCATED

Tara Westover didn’t have a traditional background or educational pathway. Yet education transformed her life and unlocked new worlds. 

Watch this wide-ranging discussion on overcoming barriers to opportunity, where a passion for learning can take you, the status of the American Dream, and more.

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Fireside chat with Tara Westover, bestselling author of EDUCATED

Tara Westover sits down with Terrence Cummings, Guild's Chief Opportunity Officer, for a conversation on the critical need and impact of equal access to education and mobility opportunities.

Session #8

The education and career mobility fellowship

In partnership with UpSkill America at the Aspen Institute, Guild has launched a new fellowship designed specifically to invest in the next generation of corporate education, skilling, and career leaders.

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Investing in the next generation of corporate education, skilling, and career leaders

Leaders from Walmart and USAA discuss how this opportunity will equip fellows with the skills they need to advance our shared goal of unlocking opportunity for America's workforce.

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