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Lisa Gevelber is the founder and leader of Grow with Google, Google's economic opportunity initiative focused on helping people build skills, careers, and businesses. Through Google Career Certificates and AI training programs, she has helped millions of learners develop workforce-ready skills and navigate an increasingly AI-driven economy.

💡 5 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode

1. Why AI fluency is becoming an essential workforce skill for every profession.
2. How Grow with Google is helping learners build practical AI skills at scale.
3. The growing role of AI credentials and certificates in higher education.
4. How universities are integrating AI training into student, faculty, and alumni learning.
5. Why lifelong learning and career mobility will be critical in the age of AI.

✨ Episode Highlights
[00:03:10] The founding story of Grow with Google and its mission to expand economic opportunity through skills training.
[00:04:16] Lisa explains the difference between simply using AI and becoming truly AI fluent.
[00:06:20] How Google keeps AI training current through educator partnerships and bite-sized learning.
[00:08:06] The Google AI Professional Certificate and its ACE recommendation for college credit.
[00:10:14] How the University of Virginia is combining AI certificate learning with real-world small business impact.
[00:12:41] The rapid growth of Google's AI for Education Accelerator and the power of peer learning among institutions.
[00:14:24] Why flexible, industry-recognized credentials are becoming essential for career transitions and lifelong learning.
[00:17:08] Lisa shares where educators, students, and professionals can access Grow with Google resources.

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