297 - Michelle Weise on Long Life Learning

<p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style= "color: #222222;">This week, Tom is sitting down with author and advisor, Michelle Weise, to discuss her new book,</span> <em>Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don't Even Exist Yet.</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">Michelle is currently serving as an entrepreneur-in-residence and Senior Advisor at Imaginable Futures, a venture of The Omidyar Group. Michelle was formerly the Chief Innovation Officer at Strada Education Network’s Institute for the Future of Work, and Sandbox Collaborative, the innovation center of Southern New Hampshire University. She was also the co-author of <em>Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution,</em> with Clayton Christensen.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">In this conversation, Tom and Michelle discuss her background in the arts and innovation; how and why she came to write her new book, <em>Long Life Learning</em>; what long life learning means to her; what she predicts to be the future of business models for long life learning; and her advice on how we can all make good decisions about what to learn next no matter where we are on our long life learning journey.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">[:10] About today’s episode with Michelle Weise.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">[:55] Tom Vander Ark welcomes Michelle to the podcast.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">[:59] Tom congratulates Michelle on her new book, <em>Long Life Learning.</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">[1:37] When did Michelle’s interest in language, literature, and poetry begin?</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;">[2:27] Michelle elaborates on her deep passion for poetry and how both reading and writing it helped her get through the death of her 10th-grade