AI Is a Team Sport: How Trust Drives the Future of Work | The AI+HI Project

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The initiative shows a direct link between systematic AI upskilling and business performance, making inclusive, trust-based change management a strategic priority for companies seeking competitive advantage in the AI era.

Summary

LinkedIn’s Rosanna Dei describes AI as a catalyst for inclusive, team-centric workplace transformation, arguing that trust, psychological safety and belonging are essential to realize human+AI productivity. She highlights LinkedIn Learning’s AI Skill Pathways—built with Microsoft—which offers 150+ role- and level-aligned learning paths and certifications to scale AI readiness across organizations. Early results include large-scale adoption (one client enabled 570,000 employees) and LinkedIn customers seeing 98% year-over-year growth in AI skill development; firms in the top quartile of AI literacy report roughly 18% higher revenue. Dei asserts that leaders who embed ethical, human-centered design and inclusive leadership will extract the most value from AI adoption.

Original Description

AI won’t replace people — but bad leadership will.

Rosanna Durruthy, Vice President of belonging, learning, and employee experience at LinkedIn, shares what actually separates organizations that win with AI from those that stall out.

Spoiler: it’s not the tech. It’s trust and how teams work together with AI.

Rosanna shares how LinkedIn is scaling AI literacy across hundreds of thousands of employees, why AI adoption works best as a team sport, and how compassionate leadership is becoming a competitive advantage in the age of automation.

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