Axios C-Suite: CEOs need to be their organization's chief teacher, too

I Zoomed with Pearson CEO Omar Abbosh, who studies and monetizes the reskilling of massive workforces. Three vital insights from our conversation that I wanted to share with you:

1. Teaching is no longer delegable. Traditional L&D wasn't built for this moment. Rewiring work at this scale — new processes, new systems, new culture — is CEO-level work. The leaders winning on AI aren't the ones who handed it to HR.
2. Deploy-and-train-later is dead. People lose 70% of new knowledge in 48 hours unless it's applied immediately. Abbosh is blunt: "If learning isn't in the flow of work, there is no learning."
3. Teaching velocity matters big time. 53% of employers can't find AI-ready entry-level workers. That means even your youngest hires need reskilling from day one. The winners will be the ones teaching new skills faster than the competition.

The bottom line: This is "reengineering the corporation" turned up a notch — the same scale as the '90s process revolution, compressed into 36 months.

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