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Jeff Schwartz

New York, United States

Global Researcher, Future of Work, VP of Insights and Impact at Gloat; Author, WORK DISRUPTED; Co-author, Workforce Ecosystems, Adjunct Professor Columbia Business School, Founding Partner Deloitte's US FOW Practice

Jeff Schwartz Points
Academic 0
Author 144
Influencer 79
Speaker 10
Entrepreneur 0
Total 233

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Areas of Expertise

AI 30.01
COVID19 46.09
Ecosystems 35.22
Future of Work 32.45
Generative AI 30.04
HR 30.16
Innovation 30.10
Management 33.26

Industry Experience

Publications

17 Article/Blogs
October research roundup: Building the exponential workforce by redesigning and connecting work, people, and technology
Linkedin
October 14, 2025
If your heading is spinning from the headlines in the world of AI and its impact on work and the workforce, you’re not alone. I’ve been studying and following the future of work since 2012, when I was a senior consulting partner at Deloitte, leading our research on human capital and business trends.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

Now the real AI transformation work begins: Why technology is only the starting point for the Exponential Workforce
Linkedin
September 09, 2025
The iPhone came out in 2007. The Android phone in 2008. Today there are 5.4 billion people using these mobile technologies. They feel like they've been with us forever, but it's only been about 15 years. What made these technologies transformative wasn't the devices themselves; it was how they enabled us to do things we couldn't do before. We didn't just get better phones; we got entirely new ways of working, connecting, and accessing information, content, and markets.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

Research roundup, Gloat Live edition: Preparing for AI's transformational tidal wave
Linkedln
May 06, 2025
Our CEO, Ben Reuveni, shared these words during Gloat Live in March, and they’ve been on my mind ever since. During his welcome note, he captured an important sentiment no leader can afford to overlook: the opportunities and disruptions from AI, GenAI, and AI agents are a seminal moment for businesses and people everywhere.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

H1 research roundup: How to catch lightning in a bottle in the age of skills and genAI
Linkedln
August 06, 2024
It’s mid-2024 and I’m pulled in two directions as I watch, listen, and reflect on what’s happening in the world of work, workforces, and workplaces. First, we’re all trying to figure out the pace of change (I’m thinking a lot, of course, about genAI, but other factors as well). It reminds me of the quote above, change happens slowly at first. Then all at once. The line is often traced back to Ernest Hemingway in his novel The Sun Also Rises: “How did you go bankrupt? Two ways.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

Three paths forward in 2024: Which way to go?
Linkedln
February 06, 2024
Last year, I wrote an article inspired by one of my favorite quotes from famed New York Yankees baseball player Yogi Berra. He said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it”. It's not just good advice for aspiring ball players; it’s something business and HR leaders need to hear as well—perhaps even more so today than when I first shared this quote one year ago.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

2023: What happened and what’s next for HR and business leaders
Linkedln
December 14, 2023
At the start of 2023, I wrote about a fork in the road that all leaders were facing. As employee engagement rates were stuck at low levels, skills gaps were widening, and market turbulence and recession fears were in full force, I encouraged HR executives not to view the months that followed as a time to catch their collective breaths, but instead to consider three paths forward in 2023:  the nostalgia path (for those hoping for a return to the pre-Covid days), the “take a breath” path (for those hoping we could just take a pause and get a break in 2023), and the future forward path.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

Skillstoberfest research roundup: recapping our monthlong celebration of all things skills
Linkedln
October 31, 2023
If you follow the work we’re doing here at Gloat, you’re probably familiar with Skillstoberfest: a month-long celebration of the shift more and more organizations are making away from job-dominant operating models and towards skills-based approaches that drive productivity, innovation, and employee engagement.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

December research roundup: Happy Belated Birthday to ChatGPT
Linkedln
September 18, 2023
Just a few weeks ago, we celebrated a very special birthday: November 30 is one year since OpenAI released ChatGPT. As most of us are well aware of, it didn’t take long for the generative AI chatbot to make its mark. In fact, within two months, ChatGPT was recognized as the fastest-growing consumer application in history and surpassed 100 million monthly active users.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

Summer research roundup: Where are we headed? The importance of clarifying direction and priorities as we prepare for the end of 2023
LinkedIn
August 31, 2023
It’s September 2023. With just over one quarter of the year to go before 2024, I’m observing that amidst all that is going on this year (and there’s a lot), many talent, HR, people, and business leaders I speak with around the world are all over the map when it comes to clear workforce and talent priorities. Hence, my reflection on Lewis Carroll’s musing above

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Tags: HR, Future of Work

April research roundup: How skills, generative AI, and workforce ecosystems are reshaping our work resignation journey
LinkedIn
May 03, 2023
Much like the first years of the 2020s, 2023 continues to be a time of profound shifts in the way we work and drive impact. Amidst ongoing economic turbulence and widening skills shortages, leaders are looking to a new generation of technological innovations to unlock capacity, accelerate results, and empower employees—and workers of all types—to achieve their full potential.

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Tags: AI, Generative AI, Ecosystems

What a difference a year makes: Applying what we learned in 2022 to accelerate impact in 2023
Linkedln
January 25, 2023
2022 was a critical year in the transition from the COVID-era to the current business environment. Now, business and HR leaders are at an inflection point. Global markets continue to shift and reshape along with supply chains. The half-life of skills continues to drop and the need for new skills is abundantly clear—the flurry of news and activity around ChatGPT and advances in AI are only part of this dramatic story.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

November research roundup: What we learned in 2022 and leading into 2023
Linkedln
November 14, 2022
As the new year approaches, I believe we are at an inflection point. Organizations are learning about new and dynamic approaches that can reshape careers and unlock our workforce’s skills, interests, and potential. Yet most businesses are still clinging to operating models based on functional hierarchies and legacy HCM technologies. These companies have one foot in the past and one foot in the future.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

Beyond the Great Resignation to the Great Reassessment—Fundamental Shifts and Challenges
Linkedln
September 14, 2022
Right now, the world is focused on transient economic conditions. We are navigating high inflation, surging interest rates, and supply chain disruptions. Eventually, whether it’s next year or a bit later, the markets will level out and we will welcome sustained tailwinds again. Business, HR, and talent leaders are challenged to make sense of it all—and the impact on workforce and talent trends.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

August research roundup: Gearing up for the next chapter of transformation—a starting agenda for game changers
Linkedln
September 06, 2022
Transformation is at the top of every organization’s agenda (just look at Mercer’s new stat that 96% of companies are planning enterprise-wide transformations for proof). As we turn to the last quarter of 2022, leaders are already scoping out their transformation agendas for 2023 and the years ahead. Executive teams and workforces must rise to meet the opportunities and shifts around us: changing workforce expectations for growth, purpose, and flexibility; preparing for the next chapter in a world where hybrid and remote work are front and center; and harnessing workforce technologies and programs to change the game—not just incrementally optimize what we’ve been doing for years.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

Workforce agility is the answer to overcoming market uncertainty: here’s why.
Linkedln
July 13, 2022
In the new world of work, it feels like only uncertainty is certain. Momentous events outside of our control are no longer a rarity; instead, we’ve seen COVID-19, global supply chain issues, and the war in Ukraine redefine the status quo. These disruptions shocked the business economy, sending ripples that are reshaping workplaces, workforces, and work.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

June research round-up: preparing for headwinds
Linkedln
July 06, 2022
With the start of the second half of 2022 comes a palpable shift in attitudes, challenges, and business priorities. Most leaders see the warning signs of an impending slowdown and possible recession: inflation is rising, interest rates are up, supply chains are under pressure, and market turmoil is becoming a constant. Now that we’ve entered a bear market, businesses are preparing for the impact and looking for approaches to help their organizations lead through market uncertainty.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

May research round-up: A new balancing act
Linkedln
June 02, 2022
Now that we’re into the second year of the Great Resignation, all employers are feeling the pressure. Calls for change keep getting louder, and many leaders now find themselves in the middle of a challenging balancing act.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

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July research roundup: reimagining workforces for resilience
Linkedln
August 03, 2022
At the start of 2022, I suggested that reimagination would be one of the most important themes of the year—maybe the decade. In the months that followed, several events unfolded that underscore the importance of this idea: rising inflation, market turmoil, supply chain disruptions, and the ongoing talent shortage.

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Tags: Ecosystems, Future of Work, Management

2 Books
Workforce Ecosystems: Reaching Strategic Goals with People, Partners, and Technologies (Management on the Cutting Edge)
Amazon
April 11, 2023
A pioneering guide to understanding and leading workforce ecosystems, which include not only traditional employees, contractors, and gig workers, but also partner and complementor organizations that work with companies to accomplish enterprise and individual goals.

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Tags: Management, Future of Work, Ecosystems

Work Disrupted: Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work
amazon
January 07, 2021
The future of work swept in sooner than expected, accelerated by Covid-19, creating an urgent need for new maps, new mindsets, new strategies-- and most importantly, a trusted guide to take us on this journey. That guide is Jeff Schwartz. A founding partner of Deloitte Consulting’s Future of Work practice, Schwartz brings clarity, humor, wisdom, and practical advice to the future of work, a topic surrounded by misinformation, fear, and confusion. With a fundamental belief in the power of human innovation and creativity, Schwartz presents the key issues, critical choices, and potential pitfalls that must be on everyone’s radar.

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Tags: Future of Work, COVID19, Creativity

1 Keynote
NYC Assembly ’23: Jeff Schwartz on building robust workforce ecosystems in today’s digital era
Velocity
July 10, 2023
At the Velocity Network Foundation General Assembly 2023, Jeff Schwartz opened the second day with a keynote exploring workforce ecosystems and the role of verifiable credentials.

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Tags: Future of Work, Ecosystems

2 Podcasts
Hack The Future- Dave Ulrich
Shows Acast
September 03, 2023
When the world changes, we must change too. From HR-GPT and Return on Intelligence (ROI) to Augmented Talent and Workforce Ecosystems, HR and Business leaders must shift from a 'wait and see' approach to a 'explore and disrupt' one. Of course, this is exhilarating and unnerving. But it's also a call to reflection, action, and mobilisation.

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Tags: HR, Future of Work, Ecosystems

Hack The Future- Dr Samuel West
Acast
July 12, 2023
Innovation needs failure, yet according to Hack Future Lab only 28% of leaders say they work in cultures where it’s ’safe to fail’. Without learning to fail well, there’s no growth and worse we choose silence (play to lose) over speak up (play to win). The Museum of Failure founded by Dr. Samuel West is a collection of over 160 failed products and services from around the world. Every failure provides a unique lesson into the risky business of innovation and its close cousin failure. The museum aims to stimulate productive discussion about failure and inspire us to take meaningful risks. The #1 takeaway: If you’re not prepared to fail, you’re not prepared to learn.

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Tags: Innovation, Future of Work

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