Talent Wars: A Podcast By DCI · 2026-06-09 · 28 min
On this episode of Talent Wars, host Patience Fairbrother welcomes back Josh Wright , h ead of g rowth and s trategy at Lightcast , to unpack the three forces redefining the future of the talent landscape : AI disruption, geopolitical instability and demographic decline. Drawing on research from Lightcast's Faul t Lines report, Josh explains why these trends are not happening in isolation and why their convergence is creating a fundamentally different environment for communities, employers and economic developers. Josh explains why AI is accelerating disruption in white-collar work while doing little to address the most acute shortages in healthcare, construction and skilled trades. He also breaks down how immigration slowdowns and an aging population are accelerating a talent scarcity era that's <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW1762004
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