In this episode of the Achieve Podcast, host Jessie Warner speaks with Vishwa Karthik, entrepreneur and CEO of Catenate and creator of the MayaMaya platform. The conversation explores the future of work in the age of AI, the growing importance of soft skills, and how technology can help individuals better understand themselves and prepare for emerging career opportunities.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why the rise of AI will both eliminate millions of jobs and simultaneously create even more new opportunities.
- How the real challenge of the future workforce is not job availability, but whether people will have the skills needed to transition into new roles.
- Why soft skills such as adaptability, collaboration, and self-awareness are becoming more valuable than purely technical abilities.
- How gamification can be used to help individuals discover and measure their strengths across dozens of key behavioral and professional traits.
- Why understanding yourself is a critical first step in building a meaningful and sustainable career.
- What entrepreneurs can learn from building and exiting a previous company before launching a new venture.
- How startups often evolve by shifting from an initial mission to the market problem customers actually care most about solving.
- Why businesses and educational institutions must rethink how they prepare people for an AI-driven economy.
In this conversation, Vishwa Karthik shares insights from decades in the data and analytics industry and his experience as a multi-time entrepreneur. He emphasizes that the biggest workforce challenge ahead is not technological disruption itself, but the gap between current skills and future job requirements. By helping people better understand their strengths and develop the soft skills that matter most in the modern workplace, platforms like MayaMaya aim to empower individuals and organizations to navigate the rapidly changing future of work.
To learn more about Vishwa Karthik and his work, visit catenate.io or mayamaya.ai.