Big shifts. Real pressure. Zero time to waste. If Workforce Reinvention is on your 2026 agenda, this month’s updates are designed to help you turn momentum into measurable impact.
Build the workforce AI demands. Start here.
AI is reshaping work faster than most organizations can adapt. Skills are shifting, roles are evolving, and performance increasingly depends on how humans and AI work together.
The Workforce Reinvention Executive Series is a free course series designed for C-level leaders navigating this shift. You don’t need deep technical expertise. You need clarity on what’s changing and how to lead through it.
Across eight concise sessions, the series outlines how organizations move from early AI exploration to scaled, governed, outcome-driven adoption. You’ll learn what to prioritize at each stage, the risks leaders often miss, and how to build workforce capability responsibly.
Grounded in global research and executive insight, this series is built for leaders ready to move from experimentation to sustained impact.
OSHA 10 Construction, without the premium price
For years, OSHA 10 Construction has come with a premium price tag.
Because only a limited number of providers are authorized to deliver it online, employers have had little flexibility. If you needed OSHA 10, you paid standalone, premium rates. Period.
That changes now.
For the first time, authorized OSHA 10 Construction training is included as part of the OpenSesame Plus subscription through our expanded partnership with Vector Solutions.
Instead of paying high per-course fees, you can now access OSHA 10 as part of your existing subscription, alongside more than 60,000 courses and over 800 additional safety and compliance titles.
What this means for you:
- No standalone premium purchase required
- Online and mobile-ready for training anywhere
- A single subscription that covers OSHA 10 and broader safety and compliance training needs
OSHA 10 Construction is often mandatory to get on a job site. Now, instead of treating it as an expensive one-off requirement, you can build it into a broader, ongoing safety strategy.
Required training shouldn’t strain your budget. Now, it doesn’t have to.
Research spotlight: Your most important skills aren’t disappearing. They’re evolving.
McKinsey estimates that up to 57 percent of current U.S. work hours could theoretically be automated with today’s technology. That number is attention-grabbing, but it’s not a prediction of mass job loss. It’s a projection of how work will shift between humans and AI.
The real story is skills.
Across industries, the most common skills – communication, problem-solving, leadership, operations, writing – are not disappearing. They’re evolving.
As AI drafts content, synthesizes research, and handles repetitive tasks, employees will spend more time framing questions, interpreting outputs, applying business context, and exercising judgment.
Other research reinforces the shift. The World Economic Forum projects that 39 percent of core skills will change by 2030, with rising demand for both AI literacy and human capabilities like creative thinking and resilience. Workday reports that 83 percent of workers believe AI will make uniquely human skills more important.
Why does this matter?
Many organizations are moving quickly to deploy AI tools. Far fewer are redesigning work to support effective human+AI collaboration.
Have you thought about how employees should apply communication, judgment, and problem-solving in an AI-augmented environment?
For L&D leaders, that’s the opportunity: build AI fluency and strengthen the uniquely human capabilities that make AI effective.
New feature: Curation Assistant
When a leader asks for Data literacy for managers, frontline safety in Spanish, or upskilling for a new role, you don’t have days to research and vet content. Curation Assistant helps you respond in minutes.
Simply describe what you need—skill, audience, language, time limit—and receive a curated, ready-to-deliver list of high-quality, skills-aligned courses in seconds. If it’s not right or the needs shift, you can refine your search conversationally, making it easier to find exactly what you need.
Every recommendation comes from OpenSesame’s rigorously vetted, enterprise-ready marketplace, so you can move fast without sacrificing quality or compliance. Refine results, create a list, and deliver to learners, all within the Marketplace interface you already use.
And of course, when your initiative requires deeper alignment, our expert human curation team is still right there with you.
Curation Assistant gives you the speed to respond to changing workforce needs and the confidence that what you launch truly supports your business.
Build the human skills that matter most with Briefly
In the age of Workforce Reinvention, our uniquely human skills are more important than ever. Explore these new Briefly book summaries, exclusively from OpenSesame, to deepen your creativity, protect your attention, and form stronger connections.
- Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All | Tom Kelley and David Kelley
- The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource | Chris Hayes
- Doesn’t Hurt to Ask: Using the Power of Questions to Communicate, Connect, and Persuade | Trey Gowdy
Celebrating the 2026 Sesames Awards customer winners
OpenSesame is proud to recognize the customer winners of the 2026 Sesames Awards, our annual celebration of the customers, publishers, and partners shaping the future of workplace learning and development.
Each winner was selected through a rigorous evaluation process focused on learner engagement, measurable business outcomes, and innovation. These organizations show what’s possible when companies use modern online training to build skills, support frontline teams, and drive meaningful impact, without losing the human connection that makes learning stick.
This year’s awards recognized excellence across five categories:
- Excellence in AI-Driven Learning
- Leader in Frontline Employee Development
- Excellence in Skills Development
- Outstanding Leadership Development Program
- Learning Impact Award
We’re thrilled to celebrate our 2026 customer winners:
- First Solar
- Alorica
- Travel + Leisure Co.
- Atria Senior Living
- ABM Industries
These organizations are setting a new standard for workplace learning and development by aligning training programs to real business goals and empowering their people to grow.
We also want to recognize our outstanding runners-up:
- NBCUniversal
- Storage Asset Management
- Ontellus
- KerberRose
- Ready Computing
Together, these organizations demonstrate how intentional, innovative learning strategies can fuel performance, strengthen leadership, and create lasting impact.
What 3,749 L&D professionals are signaling for 2026
L&D is at a turning point.
Drawing on insights from 3,749 professionals across 101 countries, the 2026 Global Sentiment Report by Donald H. Taylor highlights a notable shift: enthusiasm around AI has stabilized, while pressure to personalize learning and demonstrate measurable impact continues to grow.
At the same time, L&D teams face familiar constraints: limited capacity, expanding expectations, and increasing demand from the business.
The central question emerging from this year’s findings is clear: Is L&D primarily a content provider, or a driver of performance?
The answer will shape how teams prioritize investment, design learning strategies, and define success in the year ahead.
Upcoming session: Workforce Reinvention Bootcamp
Many L&D leaders are aligned on the strategy. The challenge now is execution.
If you’ve followed the ideas in our Workforce Reinvention Executive Series, the next step is turning human+AI ambition into practical action inside your organization.
Our upcoming Workforce Reinvention Bootcamp on Wednesday, 18 March, is designed to help you do exactly that.
In this two-hour working session, you’ll explore practical frameworks, see live AI demonstrations, and map out adaptive, human-centered learning solutions you can pilot within your own context.
Participants will leave with tools, templates, and a clear blueprint to begin launching an AI-enabled learning initiative grounded in performance.
If Workforce Reinvention is on your 2026 agenda, this session is designed to help you take the first concrete step.
Scaling AI at work: Lessons from Lenovo’s Head of Enterprise AI
AI transformation is everywhere, but scaling it successfully is another story.
That’s why we’re excited to welcome Robert Daigle, Head of Enterprise AI at Lenovo, as our newest ICON SME!
In AI That Works: Leading and Scaling AI at Work, Robert shares what it takes to implement AI at scale inside a Fortune 200 company, including how enterprise AI decisions are made and how they shape Workforce Reinvention in practice.
This month’s most valuable Workforce Reinvention resources
If Workforce Reinvention is on your agenda this year, the right tools matter. These three resources will help you assess your readiness, clarify your strategy, and take practical steps toward building human+AI capability across your organization.
The Definitive Guide to Workforce Reinvention
A practical blueprint for CHROs and C-suite leaders, this eBook outlines how to make Workforce Reinvention a business imperative, not just an AI initiative. It provides clear frameworks to close the AI skills gap, redefine human+AI collaboration, and embed continuous development, governance, and trust into everyday work.
AI Readiness Assessment
Before scaling AI, leaders need a clear view of where they stand. This quick assessment evaluates six critical dimensions of readiness and delivers a personalized score with insights to help you prioritize investment, align stakeholders, and drive responsible AI adoption.
Five Requirements for Workforce Reinvention Every CHRO Must Lead
This executive infographic outlines the five leadership mandates required to prepare your workforce for an AI-powered future. From assessing human+AI capabilities to embedding governance and continuous skills development, it highlights where CHROs must take the lead.