The AI in Business Podcast A Practical Path from Roles to Skills for AI-Ready Teams - with Trish Vassar of Coca-Cola
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Nov 13, 2025 Trish Vassar, Vice President of Global Learning & Development at Coca-Cola, shares her extensive expertise in talent management and leadership development. She discusses the pitfalls of traditional role-based planning in the workplace, advocating for a shift to skills-based strategies driven by AI. Trish highlights practical approaches to defining skills through business outcomes and the importance of a shared skills language. She also addresses the balance between AI automation and human judgment, offering insights on utilizing AI to enhance workforce agility.
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Roles Hide Actionable Skills
- Role-based hiring conceals component skills and limits personalization and agility.
- Breaking roles into skills unlocks tailored development and better staffing decisions.
Begin Skills Work With Business Outcomes
- Start skills work by identifying the business problem you want to solve first.
- Map roles and skills to outcomes like sales volume before building taxonomies or assessments.
Skills Taxonomies Lack Proven ROI
- The industry has long tried taxonomies and common languages without clear business ROI.
- Many companies still struggle to translate skills frameworks into measurable value.