A knowledge worker is someone who’s job involves handling or using information rather than physically making or doing something or providing personal services such as a nurse, aged care worker or child care worker.

 

II work in education and as a dispute resolution professional where I help people to make agreements and make peace with each other by supporting them to reach mutual understandings. It’s all about knowledge

You might be a lawyer, a coach, a therapist or do some other form of knowledge work.  If you don’t produce a tangible or physically interact. ou are a knowledge worker like I am then I hope you are aware that we are in the middle of the next big revolution to hit the world. Like many of the manual workers at the start of the industrial revolution you may not have noticed it yet but you will within your lifetime.

 

Knowledge, including expert knowledge, can now be digitised, packaged and transported in the same way that energy was able to be  contained and  transported giving rise to the industrial revolution.

 

One of the speakers at  the 2019 TEDxCasey Dheeren Velu shared his insights into what this means and can mean for us in his talk, Get some Skin in the Game.

 

I’m part of the TEDx movement because I think that Ideas matter and that the only way we are going to get out of the man made problems our world is experiencing is by working together to solve them.