Building Human Advantage in the AI Era

Shujaat is a Director of People Analytics, leading the Future of Work team at LinkedIn. The FoW team is in the business of leveraging actionable insights to mythbust and drive executive decisions related to embracing the Who, Where, What, How of Future of Work - both what we need in the present as well as long-term future to fuel business strategy.

Who I serve

Shujaat envisioned and built this pioneering team to mythbust through the crisis of the pandemic and beyond, simultaneously applying a lens on the present and the future, enabled by expertise in strategic foresight on leading in uncertainty, coupled with causal analytics across sentiment, behaviours(collaboration, connectivity, leader and team effectiveness), and outcomes (business and talent). The team successfully guided high-profile strategic transformations related to flexible work effectiveness for productivity, innovation, culture, critical talent investments, and geo-location strategy. Shujaat is now also leading the strategy on AI’s impact on work flows and talent readiness. The team also serves as “Customer Zero” for products.

My approach

Shujaat teaches DEIB Analytics to the MBA class at the Wharton School of Business. In parallel to his day job, Shujaat has championed his passion for DEIB by co-leading the Embrace ERG (employee resource group) focused on globally embracing multiple cultures, ethnicities, and nationalities to drive enterprise as well as locally relevant inclusion and belonging for underrepresented minorities. Shujaat’s leadership efforts as an ERG leader earned him a unique award twice from LinkedIn’s CEO, particularly for driving connectivity and belonging during the unprecedent era of Covid-19 with virtual work and events of systemic racial injustice.

What makes me different

Shujaat joined LinkedIn almost 7 years ago after a radical mid-career pivot from being a strategy consultant to disrupting the talent space for social good. Shujaat has previously worked in consulting and industry, his portfolio spanning across industries (Tech, Telecom, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), and Energy) and markets (US, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Middle East). He holds a MBA from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, with a specialization in strategy and organizational effectiveness, and a BASc in Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics) from the University of Toronto.