ABOUT RAVIN JESUTHASAN
Ravin Jesuthasan is a globally recognized thought leader, futurist and bestselling author on the future of work, AI and workforce transformation. Ravin is an Executive Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer of Executive Education at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He works with some of the largest, most sophisticated organizations in the world on the deployment of AI/automation and the transformation of work. Ravin has led numerous research projects for the World Economic Forum including many of its ground-breaking studies on the impact of exponential technologies and the transformation of work. He is a regular participant and presenter at the Forum’s annual meeting in Davos and is a member of the its Steering Committee on Work and Employment, Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Future Skills Executive Board.
Ravin has been a featured speaker on the aforementioned topics at major conferences around the world. He has been a regular participant and presenter at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos since 2015 and is a regular keynote speaker at major conferences around the world including C2 in Montreal, HR Tech in Las Vegas, The QSP Summit in Porto, Wharton’s People Analytics Conference, The Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, The Horasis Global Meeting, MIT’s Emtech Next and Work conferences in Boston, Beyond HR in Amsterdam and the Peryon People Management Summit in Istanbul among others.
He has also been featured and quoted extensively by leading business media including CNN, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CNBC, Fortune, FT, The Nikkei (Japan), Les Echoes (France), De Telegraaf (Netherlands), Valor Economico (Brazil), Business Times (Malaysia), Globe and Mail (Canada), South China Morning Post, Economic Times (India), Dubai One TV and The Australian among others. Ravin was also an advisor to and featured prominently on PBS’s widely acclaimed documentary series The Future of Work. He is a frequent guest lecturer at universities around the world including Caltech, Oxford University, New York University, the University of Chicago and the University of Southern California.
Ravin was named one of the leading management thinkers by Thinkers 50. He has also been recognized as one of the top 25 most influential consultants in the world by Consulting Magazine, one of the top 8 future of work influencers by Tech News and one of the top 100 HR influencers by HR Executive. He is the author of 6 books including the Wall Street Journal and Amazon number one bestseller; Work Without Jobs: How to Reboot Your Organization’s Work Operating System (MIT Press, 2022), which was also named business book of the year in 2023. His most recent book is the The Skills-Powered Organization: The Journey to the Next Generation Enterprise (MIT Press, 2024) which was an Amazon number one bestseller and the FT’s Book of the Month in October 2024. Ravin has authored over 250 articles including 20 for the Harvard Business Review and the Sloan Management Review. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) and a member of the CFA Institute. Ravin is a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce).
Education and Credentials
Ravin holds a B.B.A. (with high honors) in Finance and Commercial Law and an M.B.A. (with high honors) in Finance. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) and a member of the CFA Institute. Ravin is a Fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce).
Your future workforce already works for you
Media: FORTUNE
Tags: #Future Of Work #Future Workforce Read Article Here Introduction
Your future workforce often already works for you. This is not nostalgia or loyalty talking. It’s economics. Read Article Here
Upskilling for AI: why workflows matter more than models
Media: Financial Times
Tags: #Future Of Work #Upskilling for AI Read Article Here Introduction
Artificial intelligence is no longer the limiting factor in business transformation—how organizations integrate it into everyday work is. As AI models become increasingly powerful and accessible, competitive advantage will depend less on the technology itself and more on redesigning workflows, equipping employees with the skills to supervise AI effectively, and providing systems with the right organizational context. The […]
Leading Everything, Everywhere, All at One
Media: MIT Sloan / Work26
Tags: #Skills #Future of Work Watch Interview Here Introduction
Ravin Jesuthasan at the Work26 summit by MITSloan. Watch Interview Here
Personal fulfillment: The new key metric underpinning the workplace contract
Media: World Economic Forum
Tags: #Future Of Work #Davos 2026 Full Article Here Introduction
This article is part of: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
- A new survey of 300,000 people worldwide reveals personal fulfillment is now the second workplace priority.
- With a shortfall in targeted skills training, only 44% of employees feel as if they are thriving at work, down from 66% in 2024.
- Once the least fulfilled cohort, Generation Z has […]
CNBC interview on AI Jobs Impact
Media: CNBC
Tags: #Future Of Work #AI Jobs Impact Watch Interview Here Introduction
Key Points:
- AI is not just disrupting entry level jobs, but also senior roles.
- Explosion in AI highlights the war for talent and that people will need to evolve skills.
- AI also creates challenges in managing organizational succession pipelines.
- Every leader needs AI fluency to orchestrate a mix of human and AI capabilities.
Watch Interview Here […]
Want AI-Driven Productivity? Redesign Work
Media: MIT Sloan
Tags: #AI-Driven Productivity #Redesign Work Full Article Here Introduction
There’s huge potential to reshape work, thanks to democratized access to opportunities (through gig platforms and agile ways of operating) and major advances in technology (particularly artificial intelligence). Only through a concerted effort that involves deconstructing, redeploying, and reconstructing work tasks will organizations be able to fundamentally redesign work processes to achieve both agility and productivity. Full Article Here […]
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