78 words across Climate fluency, AI skills and Future mindset: why each one matters, and what you can do today.
70%
Of Gen Zs and millennials weigh an employer's environmental credentials when choosing where to work.
Deloitte Gen Z and Millennial Survey, 2025
52.7%
Higher hiring rate for green talent than for the workforce overall.
LinkedIn Global Green Skills Report, 2026
66%
Of leaders say they wouldn't hire someone without AI skills.
Microsoft and LinkedIn Work Trend Index, 2024
36%
Of Gen Zs say their employer isn't giving them enough AI upskilling.
Deloitte Gen Z and Millennial Survey, 2026
Every business now carries material, financial and operational risk from climate change, from AI and from the pace of change itself. Future Skills are the three capabilities that let your people manage all three, in every role.
Climate fluencyReading climate risk, disclosure and decarbonisation well enough to act on it.
Lost to natural disasters worldwide in 2025, of which only around US$108bn was insured.
Munich Re, 2026
AI skillsUsing AI safely and well, with the judgement to check its work.
AI and big data top the experts' risk ranking for the first time, ahead of climate change.
AXA Future Risks Report, 2026
Future mindsetThe behaviours that make change stick: adaptability, resilience and systems thinking.
Of workers' core skills are expected to change by 2030.
WEF Future of Jobs, 2025
Climate fluencyThe process of changing to suit new conditions, especially in response to environmental change.
Why it matters now: Some climate impacts are already locked in. Cutting emissions still matters, and so does getting ready for what's coming.
Try today: Pick one process, product or plan, check how exposed it is to climate, and name one change that would make it more resilient.
Source: Oxford Learner's Dictionary
AI skillsActing with agency; in AI, describing a system that can plan and take multi-step actions toward a goal with limited supervision.
Why it matters now: AI agents are moving out of pilots and into real work. When one acts on its own, someone still has to own the result.
Try today: Before you let an AI tool act for you, decide who checks its work and how.
Source: Cambridge Dictionary
Future mindsetA very large quantity of something; here, a mindset that assumes there is enough opportunity, resource or reward to go around.
Why it matters now: Climate and AI are reshaping markets fast. The organisations that keep spotting new openings tend to do better.
Try today: Take one challenge on your plate this week and ask what opportunity might be hiding in it.
Source: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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We can't predict the future, but we can upskill for the one we want.