Learning Objective: Explore strategies to leverage our unique capabilities to remain relevant and competitive in a digital environment Description: Exponential changes in technology, new and agile ways of working, and flexible business models all present opportunities for Women of Color in STEM to rise to new heights. This workshop will explore strategies for leveraging our authentic and unique identities to navigate and flourish in an age of dramatic transformation.

1. Future Frontiers…
Transforming Careers
Strategies to navigate and
flourish in an age of
dramatic digital
transformation

2. Steps to Transform your Career
4. Build the skills to use AI effectively
6. Seek alternative
career paths
2. Explore alternate
work arrangements
3. Use your age as a
discriminator
1. Get out of your silo
5. Build your personal
brand online

3. As digital communication, collaboration platforms and digital reality technologies improve organizations
have become more team-centric, networked and agile.
Get out of your silo
Build cross-disciplinary skills
Incorporate collaboration and
teamwork into your daily routines
Prioritize interaction,
information-sharing and cross-
functional, integrated thinking
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4. The traditional employer-employee relationship is being replaced by a diverse workforce ecosystem
made up of workers, talent networks, and service providers.
Explore alternate work arrangements
Propose work arrangements
that work for you.
Take advantage of well-being
programs available through your
employer
Create your personal career
model and build the skills
needed to advance
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5. Average global life expectancy has increased from 53 years in 1960 to 72 years in 2015—and it is still
climbing. An employee’s career can last longer, spanning generations of technologies and businesses.
Use your age as a discriminator
Constantly reinvent your skills
and competencies
Take advantage of training
opportunities to learn
skills beyond your current
day-to-day
Consider looking beyond
traditional jobs in your field
to launch a “second career”
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6. The adoption of automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating dramatically. As AI and
other advanced technologies permeate the workplace, skills such as critical thinking, creativity, and
problem-solving gain importance.
Build the skills to use AI effectively
Constantly reinvent your
skills and competencies.
Build the skills required to
succeed in a highly
automated workplace.
Adopt a lifelong learning
approach and seek
opportunities to develop your
skills both inside and outside
your employer
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7. ​Our lives are being flooded with new and exciting communications tools, each promising to improve
productivity.
Build your personal brand online
Use collaboration tools to
increase your productivity
without becoming overwhelmed.
Post regularly to social groups.
Collaborate online often but
effectively.
Using online tools to build your
personal brand by expanding your
networks, sharing your expertise
and promoting your achievements
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8. Careers are no longer narrowly defined by jobs and skills but through experiences and learning agility.
Employers are redesigning jobs around artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and new business models.
Seek alternative career paths
Broaden your focus beyond
traditional career paths
Build “essential human skills” such
as creativity and problem-solving
even if you have a more technical
role.
What can you offer that is most
valuable to employers?
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9. Steps to Transform your Career
4. Build the skills to use AI effectively
6. Seek alternative
career paths
2. Explore alternate
work arrangements
3. Use your age as a
discriminator
1. Get out of your silo
5. Build your personal
brand online

10. Dorcia Jolliff is the Deputy Chief Engineer at the Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS)
Training and Logistics Solutions (TLS) line of business. In this role she provides focused support on key
efforts to improve Engineering and Technology performance, effectiveness and overall organization
operations.
Before her role as the TLS Deputy Chief Engineer, Dorcia was the Chief Engineer for the Training and
Simulation Solutions (TSS) Market Segment at TLS and was responsible for a portfolio focused on live,
virtual, constructive, and turn-key training programs.
Dorcia has been with Lockheed Martin for over sixteen years and has had multiple leadership roles in the
Engineering and Technology organization. Dorcia has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering,
a Master’s degree in Computer Systems Engineering and a Master of Business Administration with a
concentration in Organizational Behavior. She lives with her husband and two children in Orlando, Florida.
Sources:
1. Peter Evans-Greenwood, Harvey Lewis, and Jim Guszcza, “Reconstructing work: Automation, artificial intelligence, and the essential role of humans,” Deloitte Review 21, July 31, 2017.
2. 2018 Global Human Capital Trends, Deloitte Insights View in Article
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