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## Segment 10 — reskilling

## Article 51 — a051

# Jenny Fernandez

**Role in the source:** primary author of the HBR article this vault distills. Her argument frames the entire vault: automation of entry-level roles creates [[concept-capability-debt-d10]] and a future [[concept-knowledge-cliff]].

**Profile.** Executive coach, organizational-change advisor, adjunct faculty member at **Columbia University** and **NYU**, and a doctoral candidate at the **University of Southern California** researching workforce reskilling and the future of leadership. She is a TEDx speaker and a **Thinkers50 Radar 2024** honoree. Her canonical identity would resolve to her HBR author profile / personal site.

**Attributed contributions in this vault:**
- Concepts: [[concept-capability-debt-d10]], [[concept-healthy-friction]], [[concept-tacit-knowledge-d51]], [[concept-knowledge-cliff]], [[concept-talent-supply-chain-analysis]]
- Claims: [[claim-entry-level-automation-destroys-pipeline]], [[claim-debt-vs-gap-framing]], [[claim-70-20-10-development-loss]], [[claim-internal-mobility-outperforms-external-hiring]]
- Frameworks: [[framework-capability-debt-audit]], [[framework-distributed-apprenticeship]]
- Quotes: [[quote-entry-level-purpose]], [[quote-leadership-supply-decision]], [[quote-capability-debt-definition]]
- Contrarian framings: [[contrarian-entry-level-purpose]], [[contrarian-debt-vs-gap]]