Jeff Schwartz is an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia Business School where he co-designed the future of work MBA and executive education courses. He is also the VP of Insights and Impact at GLOAT, the world’s leader in talent marketplaces and skills analytics powered by AI. He was a senior advisor on the future of work and a retired senior principal at Deloitte Consulting from 2001 to 2022 where he was a co-founder and leader of the U.S. Future of Work practice and the founding global editor of Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends Report since its launch in 2011 through 2021. Earlier in his career Jeff was a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal (1981-1983) and an Associate Director of the US. Peace Corps in Russia (1992-1993). 

Jeff is the author of the best-selling book, WORK DISRUPTED, (Wiley 2021) on the accelerating challenges to the future of work, workforces and workplaces.  He recently co-authored  WORKFORCE ECOSYSTEMS: Reaching Strategic Goals with People, Partners, and Technologies (MIT Press 2023)-- winner of a Gold Medal in Business Theory from Axiom Business Books in 2024. Thinkers360 named Jeff one of the top 50 global leaders and influencers in the Future of Work in 2024. 

He completed joint graduate studies at the Yale School of Management (MBA 1987) and Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs (MPA 1987).  Jeff has a BA (1980) in history and government from Cornell University and was a member of the Board of Trustees from 1979-1980.