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## Segment 10 — reskilling

## Article 33 — a033

# Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio

## Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio

**Role in the source:** Sole author of the HBR piece *"The New Tools That Can Improve Workforce Training"* (Dec 2025). Every claim, concept, framework, and recommendation in this vault is attributable to her.

**Profile:** A behavioral, AI, and Big Data expert affiliated with **Harvard Law School** and **Harvard's Kennedy School of Government**. She co-chairs the **UN's Global Initiative on AI and Virtual Worlds** and advises Fortune 500 companies on workforce strategy. (External context: she chairs the Executive Leadership Research Initiative for Women and Minority Attorneys and works at the intersection of AI, big data, behavioral science, and talent analytics.)

**Attributed contributions in this vault:**
- **Thesis & concepts:** [[concept-capability-mirage]], [[concept-forgetting-curve]], [[concept-emotional-activation]], [[concept-extended-reality]], [[concept-virtual-reality-training]], [[concept-augmented-reality-training]], [[concept-mixed-reality-training]]
- **Claims:** [[claim-ai-roi-failure]], [[claim-vr-training-efficacy]], [[claim-vr-cost-at-scale]], [[claim-brain-encodes-virtual-as-real]]
- **Frameworks:** [[framework-xr-modality-selection]], [[framework-xr-implementation]]
- **Quotes:** [[quote-textbooks-surgery]], [[quote-embodied-knowledge]], [[quote-complex-simplifies]]
- **Recommendations:** [[action-pilot-xr]], [[action-scale-xr-carefully]], [[action-tie-xr-to-performance]], [[action-harvest-xr-telemetry]]
- **Related work:** her 2025 MIT Press book [[entity-building-a-thriving-future]].