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Skills First, Roles Second | Jose Ramirez

What if the reason your AI adoption isn't working has nothing to do with the technology — and everything to do with how you prepared your people?

Beginner
42m

Created by Josh Burkhead

Last Updated Jun 02, 2026

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Skills First, Roles Second | Jose Ramirez

What if the reason your AI adoption isn't working has nothing to do with the technology — and everything to do with how you prepared your people?

Beginner
42m

Created by Josh Burkhead

Last Updated Jun 02, 2026

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What if the reason your AI adoption isn't working has nothing to do with the technology — and everything to do with how you prepared your people?

In this episode of The Pluralsight Podcast, Jose Ramirez — L&D strategist and former research analyst who spent a decade advising CIOs on building high-performing tech teams — makes the case that most organizations are solving the wrong problem. It's not a tools problem. It's a skills problem. And until leaders make learning part of the job instead of a break from it, no amount of AI investment will move the needle.

Skills First, Roles Second | Jose Ramirez
Beginner
42m
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Josh Burkhead is a Senior Podcast Producer and Host at Pluralsight, where he leads the Pluralsight Podcast — a weekly conversation series built for L&D and technology leaders navigating the fast-moving world of AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and workforce development. With over two decades in content production, Josh brings a practitioner's curiosity to every episode. His approach is conversational and assumption-challenging — less interested in surface-level takes than in the decisions, tradeoffs, and hard-won lessons that leaders actually use. Whether he's pressing a PCI security standards architect on why policies fail in the real world or asking an AI expert what responsible machine learning actually looks like inside an enterprise, Josh treats every conversation as an opportunity to learn out loud alongside his audience.

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