SG104: Skills as Strategy: A New Mandate for Business Survival

Everyone says they have a skills strategy but does your business actually feel it? In a time when 87% of executives are facing or anticipating critical skill gaps (McKinsey), and 44% of core job skills are projected to change within five years (WEF), it's no longer enough to talk about skills. It's time to operationalize them. Join Scott Mahoney, Chief Strategy Officer at Seertech, for a high-impact, executive-focused showcase on how leading organizations are transforming outdated enablement models into agile, data-driven skills engines. You'll learn how to shift from static learning systems to dynamic skills frameworks personalized, measurable, and aligned with real business outcomes. Drawing from global research by Deloitte, McKinsey, Gartner, and IBM, this session highlights how organizations that take a skills-first approach are not just more agile, they are 2.5x more likely to succeed through business transformation.

During this session, you will learn:

• Turn Skill Gaps into Strategic Gains: Learn how to validate, quantify, and track skills with real data (assessments, PDPs, performance insights) and use that intelligence to drive transformation, agility, and measurable business results.
• Enable the Workforce You Need Next: Discover how to design smart, role-based development paths that are also deeply personalized enabling rapid upskilling, mobility, and workforce readiness at scale.
• Make Enablement a Growth Lever, Not a Cost Center: See how your existing enablement ecosystem can be recharged into a skills-first engine, powered by AI and dynamic data not just improving learning, but accelerating performance, retention, and innovation.