Dr. Michelle R. Weise

Chief Impact Officer, The Kern Family Foundation, author, podcast host, and futurist

Dr. Michelle R. Weise is the Chief Impact Officer of The Kern Family Foundation and the co-host of “A Life Worth Working,” a podcast about finding meaning in the work that we do. Her award-winning book, Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs thatDon’t Even Exist Yet, was published in 2021, the same year that Thinkers50 named her one of 30 management and leadership thinkers in the world to watch. In addition to a TED talk, Michelle's commentaries on redesigning higher education and developing more innovative workforce and talent pipeline strategies have been featured in The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and on PBSNewshour. Michelle is a former Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of Harvard and Stanford.