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Julia Stiglitz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Uplimit, an AI learning platform helping companies equip their talent with the skills of tomorrow. She previously was a Partner at GSV Ventures, where she invested and partnered with some of the most innovative entrepreneurs in edtech. Prior to GSV, Julia was one of the first hires at Coursera and led many groundbreaking initiatives, mostly notably as Vice President of Enterprise, where she founded and led Coursera's enterprise business, growing it from concept to over 1400 organizations across the globe.

💡 5 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode

1. How AI is transforming corporate learning & development
2. The move from catalogs to custom AI academies
3. Why SMEs are becoming company instructors
4. The new role of L&D teams in an AI workplace
5. How rapid AI innovation drives upskilling

✨ Episode Highlights

[00:02:22] Julia on moving from teaching to Coursera and founding Uplimit.
[00:04:29] Pivoting from B2C courses to an AI-powered enterprise platform
[00:06:44] Introducing Uplimit’s suite of AI agents for program management, skill-building, and teaching assistance.
[00:12:32] How small L&D teams can create custom, interactive learning experiences at scale.
[00:18:35] Leveraging subject matter experts to teach and drive business-aligned learning.
[00:23:21] Building AI academies to enable entire organizations.
[00:27:39] Using AI for real-time sales enablement and rapid product updates.
[00:31:47] AI as a tool for making learning experiences more human, not less.
[00:33:54] Julia’s vision for achieving quality education at scale in the AI era.

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