Digitize Your Expert Knowledge

Tuesday, December 1st, 2026 at 5:00 PM
136 East Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514Carrboro, NC

About This Event

Roughly 73 million Baby Boomers are leaving the workforce, the largest retirement wave in US history. Age-related retirements alone accounted for 65% of the entire decline in US employment between 2000 and 2019.

With every departure, decades of judgment and "how we really do it here" know-how that was never written down. It usually leaves quietly, until a costly mistake or a missed call reveals the gap. This workshop closes that gap before it opens and turns your deepest expertise into a skill anyone in your organization can summon on demand. That's what makes an organization Fluid-Shaped™: knowledge that isn't locked in one person's head, but ready to be drawn on the moment it's needed. (Sources: OECD Employment Outlook 2026; U.S. Census Bureau population data)

Who should attend: Veteran employees and experts nearing retirement or a career transition, managers, and HR or workforce development leaders responsible for protecting institutional memory. Anyone who wants to build an AI Digital Twin of their own expertise and become Fluid-Shaped™ by making that knowledge available to themselves and everyone who comes after them.

What's offered: A guided, conversation-based walkthrough (no writing required) that shows how a simple AI-guided conversation turns decades of experience into a structured, searchable digital knowledge asset, the foundation of a truly Fluid-Shaped™ team.

You'll walk away with:

• A personal Knowledge Capture Conversation Guide, the questions that surface real expertise

• A sample digital knowledge entry built live from your own experience

• A plain-language explanation you can bring back to leadership on why digitizing tribal knowledge provides a competitive advantage

• A clear picture of how your expertise becomes a Fluid-Shaped™ asset the whole organization can draw on

Why attend: This isn't about being replaced. It's about being remembered, valued, and useful long after you've moved on, and it protects the organization and the people who come after you. Anyone who knows how to digitize their expertise becomes more efficient and adds more value, personally and professionally. And once your knowledge is captured, it does the same thing for everyone else that Fluid-Shaped™ does for you: it's there the moment someone needs it, not something they have to stockpile in advance.

Fluid-Shaped™ is the mindset and skill approach built for the AI era. Instead of stockpiling deep expertise in advance and carrying it for life (like the old I-Shaped, T-Shaped, V-Shaped, and Comb-Shaped career models), a Fluid-Shaped™ person stays curious, is comfortable saying "I don't know yet," and uses AI to summon whatever skill or knowledge they need, exactly when they need it, then lets it go again once the task is done. In short: skilled on demand, not skilled in advance.

Check out an exciting video teaser HERE!

*This is event #4 in a five-event series. Register for event #5 HERE.

FOR ATTENDEES:

You left the workshop with a foundation. The lab is where you build on it and make it work for you. One week after each workshop, come back for a 90-minute session reserved exclusively for that workshop’s attendees. Bring what you started and keep working on it with hands-on help. Go deeper into the workshop topic, ask questions, troubleshoot what isn’t working, and figure out where to take it next.

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