Kostas Axarloglou, PhD

Technological innovation, globalization of economic activity and the interconnectedness of the world through the internet propagate and magnify the effects of changes across economies and communities; changes in the way we communicate, socialize, travel, work, the ways we relate to each other, the ways we learn.   Business models become suddenly obsolete and new ones arise in replacing them. Organizations go through major transformations requiring new skills and competences from its employees. In such a disruptive and non-linear world we need to comprehend complex and unknown social patterns fast and effectively.  We need the skills and competencies that allow us to learn something in one situation and apply it in a different one; to gather patterns from one context and use them in another so that we can make sense out of something we have never seen or done before.

In such a world where the normality is always a “new normal”, the Learnability and Employability initiative, serves the community by facilitating the interaction of stakeholders in developing insights on the transformation of organizations, the future of work, and by designing and offering learning initiatives on how we adopt the relevant values, mindsets and competencies so to adapt successfully in the ever evolving new normal”.