---
id: "action-partner-with-ecosystem"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Reskilling Takes a Village"]
tags: ["ecosystem", "partnerships", "diversity"]
related: ["entity-year-up", "framework-five-paradigms"]
action: "Form coalitions with industry peers, NGOs, and educational institutions to pool resources."
outcome: "Access to broader talent pools, shared infrastructure costs, and more effective training pipelines."
speakers: ["Jorge Tamayo", "Leila Doumi", "Sagar Goel", "Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic", "Raffaella Sadun"]
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-edu-34-reskilling-in-age-of-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2023/09/reskilling-in-the-age-of-ai"
sourceTitle: "Reskilling in the Age of AI"
---
# Partner with industry coalitions and NGOs

**Action.** Stop viewing reskilling as a solo endeavor. **Form coalitions with industry peers** to build shared [[concept-skill-taxonomy|skill taxonomies]], and **partner with NGOs** (like **[[entity-year-up|Year Up]]** or **OneTen**) and **local colleges** to access diverse, underrepresented talent pools at lower cost.

**Outcome.** Access to broader talent pools, shared infrastructure costs, and more effective training pipelines.

This operationalizes paradigm five of [[framework-five-paradigms]] ("Reskilling Takes a Village") and the contrarian stance [[contrarian-competitor-collaboration]] (collaborate with competitors on talent rather than only fighting over it).