Chris Ernst
Chris Ernst is chief learning officer at Workday. He’s responsible for leading Workday’s talent strategy, including performance and talent enablement, leadership effectiveness, organization development, and employee experience, and using Workday’s technology to optimize these internal programs.
Before joining Workday, Chris served as the global head of people and organization potential at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Chris also served as vice president of leadership and organization effectiveness at Juniper Networks and held leadership roles at the Center for Creative Leadership.
Chris holds a doctorate in industrial and organizational psychology from North Carolina State University, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from James Madison University. He’s also authored three books, including “Boundary Spanning Leadership: Six Practices for Solving Problems,” “Driving Innovation,” and “Transforming Organizations.”
The growing risk of AI is that employees can prompt algorithms but atrophy the very human skills that enable creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. These three key plays will help organizations form the foundation for a powerful partnership between humans and AI–creating a symbiotic relationship where technology expands our capabilities and humans continue to grow and make progress.
Exploring the core principles of a successful talent philosophy, highlighting the elements that drive employee engagement, performance, and growth.
Purely data-driven talent management is soon being replaced with workforce programs that emphasize the importance of empathy, trust, and meaningful connections in today's workplace.
Workday Chief Learning Officer Chris Ernst discusses new research from Workday about why leaders are organizing work around skills, not jobs, in the age of AI, how they’re preparing for a potential talent shortage, and the key strategies they’re adopting.
Chris Ernst, chief learning officer at Workday, shares insights gained through the move toward a skills-based talent strategy at Workday.