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Christine Brooks-Cappadocia

Christine Brooks-Cappadocia

Assistant Vice-President of Continuing Studies at York University and host of the Successfully Ambiguous? career podcast.

Jul 9, 2026

10:38
Mm.
10:38
Have that conversation.
10:39
Say, "These are the skills the people I'm looking for that I don't have," or, "These are the people that I have that don't necessarily have skills to do this," and have that conversation.
10:49
How do I get them there? Look for the continuing education unit.
10:53
As you know, Laura, we build every program we have in collaboration with industry.
10:59
So if we're going into, um, you know, blockchain or AI governance, we've done, we've done programs in all of those things, product management, customer success management.
11:10
As there's an emerging need, we bring together the largest employers in each field, and we, along with us, who are educators, and think, how do we bridge those gaps? How do we do it quickly? How, what sorts of skills and outcomes, not just the technical skills, but often more importantly those human skills.
12:39
Yeah
2:52
Well, I'd like to take credit
2:54
for the podcast, but it actually was something I was kind of reluctant to take on.
2:58
And, and I love it now.
3:01
And I've really, I was just quoting something you said in your episode the other day to somebody about, you know, Ridding our inner shells when they no longer serve us.
3:14
That lobster metaphor keeps coming back.
3:16
But the podcast came out of a couple of things.

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33:33
I know there is bias in AI and environmental impacts and whatnot, but I think the use of technology and it's something that I teach in the classroom as you have indicated it's something that you know you can again you can have both you can be ethical but you can still use these tools and I'm excited for the future so where do you see reskilling going I know that you were talking about changes in the last year that you've seen to demographics and whatnot so Yeah, if you had a crystal ball, what do you see happening in education, especially around AI literacy and, you know, things like

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