Skills: The New Global Currency?

A global call to action for employers

New partnership: City & Guilds and hundoLAB

As the global skills partner, City & Guilds has been on a skills mission since 1878. Our dedication to advancing the skills that people, organisations and societies need to thrive, both now and in the future, is one shared by hundoLAB.

A mission that underpins our new partnership, created to lead the global conversation on workforce transformation.

New report; actionable insight

Skills: The New Global Currency? explores how skills are valued in economies, societies and organisations worldwide, highlighting how skills can create global resilience and make organisations more agile.

With City & Guilds as Lead Expert Partner, this flagship report from hundoLAB launches on 10 March 2025. Leveraging insights from a diverse group of experts in workforce development, education, policy and emerging technologies, the report offers actionable takeaways for organisations like yours to integrate into your talent strategies.

Expect insights and recommendations from a truly global group of experts including Professor Tom Bewick, Jeffrey Salim Waheed, Kay Vasey, Kian Bakhtiari and Dr Christiane.

Register for the report

Global call to action: Future reports in the series

Our unique partnership with hundoLAB is a call to action, for organisations to invest in skills for now and the future, because skills are a vital economic asset for productivity, for growth and for global sustainability.

We’re supporting this call to action with future reports from the partnership series, including deeper dives into critical topics such as human-machine collaboration, the democratisation of skills and their intergenerational impacts.

And we’ll empower your organisation to grow, through comprehensive end-to-end solutions, including high-quality skills training and credentials designed to meet the evolving needs of industries and workforces.

Find out how we work with employers

About hundoLAB

hundoLAB is the new research and development arm of the award-winning workforce skills development platform hundo. It is a laboratory for innovation and change, committed to advancing straightforward solutions to the global skills crisis.

Find out more at hundoLAB website