Skills Over Roles: Designing Learning for Agility & Growth with Adam Currie

Join Adam Currie as he explores how shifting from role-based learning to skills-driven development can enhance adaptability, boost talent pipelines, and drive long-term success in a changing workforce.

• Why shift to skills-first? The limitation of "role-based" learning in a changing workforce

• Epstein’s Range framework: The value of broad skillsets and adaptability. 

• Implementing skills-based learning: Rethinking competencies, designing for capabilities, leveraging AI 

• Challenges & solutions: Overcoming resistance, leadership buy-in, measuring success etc

• Key takeaways & next steps: Applying a skills-first mindset in L&D.

Adam Currie is a Senior Global Organisational Development Manager at Too Good To Go, the world’s largest app for reducing food waste. Expanding his expertise beyond Learning & Development, he now focuses on talent management, performance and capability frameworks, and employee experience, alongside digital and in-person learning design and measuring the impact of learning and talent initiatives.

With a strong track record of creating high-quality, impactful learning experiences, Adam brings deep expertise in instructional design, learning theory, and digital learning technologies. He is skilled in authoring, LMS deployment and maintenance, virtual reality, and project management.

An Associate CIPD in Learning & Development with a Bachelor of Arts, Adam blends strategic thinking with practical application to design and implement effective, engaging, and scalable learning solutions that drive organisational growth and employee development.