Synthetic Work: How to Design Real Experience When AI Takes the Work

As AI takes over the routine tasks of the modern workplace, it is inadvertently erasing the traditional “proving ground” where emerging talent once developed vital critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving skills. Without the daily friction of navigating shifting priorities, tight deadlines, and conflicting feedback, organizations are facing a hidden and growing capability gap.

This presents a profound strategic challenge for CLOs and enterprise learning leaders: How do we cultivate deep organizational judgment when the natural training ground is gone?

The answer is synthetic work. We can no longer wait for experience to happen organically; we must engineer it. By deliberately designing learning ecosystems rooted in ambiguity, competing priorities, and uncertainty, we can simulate the proving ground where true discernment develops and thrives.

Join Ann Stott, SweetRush Lead of Talent Management Strategy, and Tiffany Vojnovski, SweetRush Senior Learning Strategist, for a deep dive into how L&D can turn its biggest disruption into its greatest opportunity. Discover how to use synthetic work to build real-world readiness in your workforce.

In this session, you’ll discover how to:

• Diagnose talent risk: Uncover where automated AI workflows are creating unseen capability gaps in your workforce that jeopardize the growth of future leaders. 
• Design effective synthetic work experiences: Learn how to engineer and scale high-impact, realistic workplace scenarios that build real critical thinking skills, confidence, and resilience. 
• Create calibrated struggle: Replace slow, unpredictable on-the-job exposure with deliberate, repeatable learning experiences that accelerate time to autonomy. 
• Shift perceptions of the L&D function: Reposition your team's role from creating training content to designing the experiential conditions that drive business performance.

Don’t miss this deep dive into how to lead the shift, close the capability gap, and secure your pipeline of future leaders.

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