ILTM 2017 Global Forum | Jess Kimball Leslie

Jess Kimball Leslie, Chief Futurist at OgilvyRED, discusses The Future of Work at the ILTM Global Forum.

Never before have companies tried so hard to employ so few people. In recent years, an onslaught of the world’s brightest economists and academics have sounded the same alarm; vociferously declaring that the economy has begun rapidly changing. In addition to these academics, the world’s most visionary CEOs have quietly been preparing their business models for a world in which our economy is structured very differently. At some point, when the problem is not just Uber but driverless Uber, and when the radiologists start losing their jobs to AI, the travel industry is going to have to figure out what this means for us. What does your future luxury travel career look like?