SPOTLIGHT: AI and Workforce Disruption with Guru Sethupathy

*This interview is excerpted from our hour long interview with
Guru in 2017. 


Reconcile how AI, analytics, and machine learning effect humans
and the future of talent with Guru Sethupathy, Head of People
Analytics at a Fortune 100 company and former engagement manager
at McKinsey Global Institute. Guru talks to us about the value of
people analytics, and how we can overcome the siloed nature of
companies to use predictive and prescriptive analytics to help
the business achieve its goals.


He was the former Chief Economist and Director of Product
Development at Opportunity@Work, a civic enterprise based at New
America. Prior to joining Opportunity@Work, Guru was an
engagement manager at McKinsey, serving clients on topics related
to human capital.


Before McKinsey, Guru was an assistant professor of economics at
Johns Hopkins University. His research agenda focused on how
globalization and technology are changing labor markets,
including productivity, employment, skills, wages, and
inequality. Prior to becoming an economist, Guru also spent some
years in the hi-tech and investment banking worlds.


Guru has a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University and
a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.