This week I attended a panel discussion hosted by BrainStation in London, titled Leaders in People and Culture: Shaping the Future of Tech Careers. I went expecting a conversation about skills, talent pipelines, and perhaps the usual debates around AI readiness. What I didn’t expect was how matter-of-fact the discussion about AI would be. The…… Continue reading Leaders in People and Culture: What Talent Leadership Looks Like When AI Is a Given
Category: Learning Notes from the Edge
Learning Notes from the Edge is where I capture ideas at the frontier of learning -how we upskill, adapt, and stay human as AI and innovation reshape work, business, and society. Short reflections, sparked by books, talks, and lived experience, with a focus on what learning really means when the world won’t sit still.
The words we use about AI are already shaping our organisations
Long before AI systems are deployed, integrated, or governed, something else happens first: We start talking about them. In leadership meetings, in internal communications, in learning materials, in hallway conversations that never make it into strategy decks. The language arrives early, and once it does, it begins to shape expectations, emotions, and behaviour in ways…… Continue reading The words we use about AI are already shaping our organisations
When AI takes our superpower: Harari at Davos (WEF 2026)
Yuval Noah Harari’s Davos address – “An Honest Conversation on AI and Humanity” – felt like stepping onto a ridge line where the air is thinner and the view is suddenly wider. You can still walk back down to the cosy valley of “but AI is just a tool”… but it becomes harder to pretend…… Continue reading When AI takes our superpower: Harari at Davos (WEF 2026)
Organisational Learning Is Not a Catalogue. It’s an Ecosystem.
I recently caught myself thinking about organisational learning in a new way. For years, I defaulted to the idea of learning as a portfolio: courses, programmes, academies, curricula neatly arranged in a catalogue. Well-intentioned. Well-designed. Then, an idea jumped into my mind, inspired by nature: learning as a living ecosystem. Learning as a living system…… Continue reading Organisational Learning Is Not a Catalogue. It’s an Ecosystem.
Thrive
I’ll start with a small warning: the title is misleading. Thrive. Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI by Ravi Bapna and Anindya Ghose is not a wellness book. There are no lifestyle prescriptions here, no productivity and self-care rituals. What the authors are really interested in is something more structural: how AI creates value…… Continue reading Thrive
Nexus
Some books don’t try to teach you something new.They quietly rearrange how you see what you thought you already understood. Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari is one of those books for me. I picked it up out of the same curiosity that has taken me to many places around the world: a desire to understand…… Continue reading Nexus
The Pursuit
A documentary with intrepid economist and social scientist Arthur Brooks who travels around the globe in search of an answer to the question: How can we live a good life and lift up the world together, starting with those at the margins of society?
A note on fluency
The Dalai Lama’s English may be ‘broken’ and simplistic in the traditional sense of the word, yet he is able to talk about things like neuroscience, quantum physics and psychology, and capture the attention of his audience. Is he fluent in English?
The moment of discovery
“What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.” Jonas Salk
Learning and the road to knowledge …
“You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct; the world is always changing. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort – but the road to knowledge is full of joy.” Words of wisdom, by the brilliant Paulo Coelho. It caught my attention…… Continue reading Learning and the road to knowledge …
Gabriella Ferenczi 