In Part 1, I told you the origin story: December 2015, AMEX Saudi Arabia, plain PowerPoint, no AI — and 9 months of real competency-based HRM work that became a living case study. You received it well. And then someone asked the question I was waiting for: "But Shah — how would you design this in the AI era?" (So here we are. Part 2.  — and this one asks the uncomfortable questions...

READ_Academy_LinkedIn_Skit_040726 Well, the times have changed—but perhaps not as much as you’d think. Back then, my "transformational models" were delivered via plain PowerPoint slides (yes, the ones with the standard transitions). Back then, we were focused on human learning. Fast forward to 2026, and the "Force" has shifted toward Machine Learning. But here’s the secret the "droi...

Let’s call it the ‘post-covid era’: although, the world continues to plunge into uncertain times and the virus too continues a threat, but it is also evident that the crisis will end soon and, by the will of the Almighty, humanity will survive. Schools across the globe were closed, students lost and the learning came down. In fact, a study by UNESCO says that almost 1.2 billion of studen...

Space remains the final frontier and before I further on the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, I’ll admit that I have been off lately on the course update front but that doesn’t mean not working hard!  We’ve been busy updating Soft Skills course’s PowerPoint deck, giving them a more modern look and feel while working on the other fronts.  And back to the voyages, ‘Star Trek’ ...

It’s a fact that when asked what ‘the cloud’ is, a majority would not refer to it as an actual cloud, the sky, or something related to weather. So, Cloud is now all about storing documents, pictures, videos and even music on the cloud.  More so, a life-saver because it simply means never having to say I lost those pictures of your cat that you sent me.  But what if you could store your f...

The good about Riyadh living is that everything seem available and there is nothing that I personally miss doing here that I did in the past.   In this regard, the retail brands are all but available; for a consumer seeking to quench or to simply live by, Riyadh offers the needed world class brands across from the Americas, Europe and the Asia.  So, I walked into Birkenstock on the main ...