Talent is everywhere. Opportunity is not. How can we close the Opportunity Divide?
An all-star guest lineup explores what motivates our nation's workforce, how employers can help them succeed, and the best ways to navigate the changing future of work.
About two-thirds of workers want to move into a new role, but nearly half feel they’re held back due to lack of access to education or training.1
How can employers bridge the gap?
Rachel Romer, CEO of Guild, a career opportunity platform that opens access to education, skilling and career mobility, and Adam Grant, best-selling author of Think Againand organizational psychologist, drive an engaging conversation on a new podcast exploring how to build a new opportunity movement for your workforce and solve key business challenges like hiring, retention, and more.
“America’s workforce. We lead them. We need them. We rely on them. But – can they rely on us?”
Rachel Romer, Guild CEO
Meet the guests
You can’t ask people to be vulnerable and brave in systems that are not built for their vulnerability and courage. We have to think about identity. We have to think about power…We have to build systems where armor is not rewarded or required.
We have to get past this idea that motivation is something that one person does to another, when in fact it’s something that people do for themselves. The very idea [of] ‘How do I motivate this person?’ is in some ways a flawed question.
“We want a world where opportunity is as abundant as talent. Right now, that’s not the case – and it doesn’t need to be that way.”
…The era of move fast and break things is over… There’s a responsibility to understand the implications of what we do.
…In my view, if you want to build an enduring company – very rationally – you have to say, I actually want a healthy society, so what can I do to help build a healthy society?
I don’t want to pretend everybody has the talent, right? But talent … is equally distributed. If you can find 15% of great talent in middle class communities, we will find those same numbers in the Harlems of this country. What we are going to have to do is first seek that talent out.
…What percentage of people with a given ability are allowed to exploit that ability to use it? … I think we assume we’re pretty efficient on that, that we manage to find most of the people who are good at X. But every time you do any kind of examination of this, you discover the exact opposite.
