Fireside Chat: Building an AI-Ready Workforce — Lessons from the Inside

​Join us ahead of the Learning Forum's Joint Council meeting for a Fireside Chat with Jim Hemgen (VP of Partnerships, Workera & former architect of Booz Allen Hamilton's 33,000-person AI upskilling initiative).

​When: March 11th | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET

​How do you actually know if your workforce is ready for AI?

​When Jim Hemgen set out to build AI literacy across Booz Allen Hamilton's 33,000-person workforce, he faced the exact same question most learning leaders are wrestling with right now. As the architect of that transformation and now VP of Partnerships at Workera, Jim brings a perspective that's hard to find in this conversation. He's not theorizing about enterprise AI readiness; he's done the work.

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In this fireside chat, Jim will share what it took to move a large, complex organization beyond course completions and self-reported skills toward validated, role-based AI capability. That means defining what AI readiness actually looks like across different functions, understanding why measurement has to precede any upskilling strategy, and making the case for precision learning over broad training programs. For leaders navigating growing pressure to demonstrate workforce readiness, this conversation offers something practical: the thinking and hard-won experience of someone who has already navigated the path you're on.

​Who Should Attend: This webinar is exclusively for members of the Learning Forum, their referrals, and senior executives at mid-to-large organizations leading HR, Learning, Talent, Skills Strategy, Work Architecture, and AI Transformation who are interested in this topic.