Global Reskilling Revolution: Empowering Future-Ready Workforce

Global skills communities

As the jobs landscape transforms at unprecedented speed, economies and industries need skills that can drive productivity, resilience and innovation in the new economy. What skills will workers need to support economic transformation and enable businesses to compete and grow? By investing in New Economy Skills, governments and businesses can equip workforces with the capabilities required to strengthen competitiveness, power the jobs of tomorrow, and enable individuals to adapt, progress and thrive in a changing economy.

Our skills communities drive change through large-scale initiatives that accelerate reskilling, and upskilling. Each program serves as a 'systems change’ model, inspiring replication and broad impact.

Through these communities, partners engage in a global collaboration powered by regional networks and public-private partnerships, amplifying impact and shaping scalable skills solutions that support competitiveness and long-term growth.

AI, Data and Digital Skills

The ability to use digital technologies, analyze and interpret data, and apply artificial intelligence tools and concepts to solve problems and drive innovation.

Read the report: Building AI, Data and Digital Capabilities for Growth

Human-Centric Skills

A set of uniquely human abilities—such as collaboration, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, creativity, and ethical reasoning—that enable effective interaction, problem-solving, and decision-making in complex, real-world situations.

Read the report: Unlocking the Human Advantage

Maker Skills

Specialized, hands-on abilities gained through training or experience that are essential for performing tasks in manual or technical occupations such as plumbing, welding, carpentry, electrical work, and other skilled trades.

Read the report: Skills for the Maker Economy

Business Skills

The combined ability to confidently manage tasks and challenges while applying practical business competencies such as financial management, project coordination, and logistical planning to achieve organizational goals.

Green and Sustainability Skills

Knowledge and abilities required to support environmental stewardship, promote sustainable practices, and contribute to the transition toward a low-carbon, resource-efficient economy.

Reskilling for the Intelligent Age

With businesses now investing over $240 billion annually in AI and digital infrastructure, the lack of skills remains the top barrier to unlocking the full potential of digital transformation. What collaborative effort is needed to bridge the skills gaps and unlock the benefits for competitiveness, growth and productivity?

The Race to Reskill

As a quarter of jobs are expected to change in the next five years, millions of people will need to move between declining and growing jobs. From precision learning to workforce planning, what are the innovative business and policy approaches to facilitate reskilling, upskilling and job transitions?

Skills in the Age of AI

By 2027, businesses predict that almost half (44%) of workers’ core skills will be disrupted. From AI tutors to lifelong learning schemes, what approaches and opportunities hold the greatest potential to close gaps and prepare people for tomorrow’s economy?

Skills in the Age of AI

New Economy Skills

Global skills communities

Chief Learning Officers

Future Skills Alliance

Skills Accelerators

New economy skills are the capabilities that enable people, businesses and economies to adapt, innovate and grow amid technological, industrial and economic transformation.