Here's what the AI conversation keeps skipping: before the technology can do its job, someone has to teach it. The exceptions. The unwritten rules. The judgment calls that never made it into any manual. That knowledge lives in your experienced workers, and if you don't capture it before you automate, it's gone. But this isn't about squeezing knowledge out of people before they leave. It's about bringing them into the process as the experts they are. When experienced workers

I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation at the University of South Florida's Muma College of Business. Sharing what my research found, because I believe it matters for every professional navigating today's workplace. I studied what gives individuals career agency, the feeling of having control over one's destiny in their career. What I found is that the professionals who stayed motivated and engaged weren't necessarily the ones earning the most or receiving the best