Using Your Tech Skills in Times of Crisis
by Gary Bolles
This course will teach you how to have a meaningful impact using your technical skills in a crisis.
What you'll learn
You tech skills can be crucial in a time of crisis, but it takes knowing how and what to apply at the right time. In this course, Using Your Tech Skills in Times of Crisis, you’ll learn that your technical skills can have a tremendous impact in times of crisis. First, you’ll discover ways to better understand how people react to crises. Next, you'll explore how your knowledge of technology can serve as a unique resource to help others. Finally, you'll see how you can share your knowledge to help others prepare themselves for similar situations. By the end of this course, you’ll develop an understanding of the ways to contribute to the development of meaningful solutions that can last.
About the author
Gary A. Bolles is a San Francisco-based writer, lecturer, consultant and entrepreneur focused on initiatives with impact, especially related to the future of work & learning.
As adjunct Chair for the Future of Work for Singularity University, he leads the organization?s efforts to empower a global community to create an abundant future of work and learning. As a partner in the consulting firm Charrette LLC, he helps clients to identify and understand trends affecting organizations and markets, t... morehrough lectures and strategy consulting. And as co-founder of eParachute.com, he helps job-hunters & career changers, from youth to 50+, with online and in-person programs inspired by ?What Color Is Your Parachute??, the best-selling career book of all time. He also chairs FulcrumConference.com, an event focused on actionable strategies for the future of work and learning.
Throughout the years, Bolles has produced a variety of impact-related strategic initiatives, conferences and events. He is a co-founder of SoCap, SocialCapitalMarkets.net, the premier gathering for impact entrepreneurs and investors. He was the co-producer of DGREE.org, a 2010 conference focused on the future of higher education; Silicon Valley Meets the U.N.; the US Broadband Coalition; and of Closing The Gap: Strategies for an Inclusive Economy. And he is the catalyst for Fulcrum, the Conference on Solutions for the Future of Work, November 2019, fulcrumconference.com.
Bolles is the former COO of Evolve Software, the former VP Marketing for Network Products Corporation, and the former editorial director for six technology magazines, including Inter@ctive Week and Yahoo! Internet Life.