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CHALLENGING THE SYSTEMS HOLDING PEOPLE BACK.

The world is changing fast, but the systems meant to help people thrive haven't kept up. The Unemployment Society highlights the frustrations, inefficiencies, and contradictions in today's access and expectations of education, employment, and money. Through conversations, research, and community stories, we reimagine what a fair, functional, and future-ready system could look like.

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Want things to change?
Do something different.

Three ways to stop watching and start doing.

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MEET YOUR FUTURE HIRE

Are your people, skills, and roles out of sync? pepelwerk gives you a single system to see your workforce clearly, close the gaps, and move your organization forward with confidence.

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CREATE YOUR TALENT WALLET

You are capable of doing more than one thing. Your AI Career Assistant helps you identify your verified skills, build your career identity, and stay ready for what's next — on your terms.

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Financially Support Skills-Based Education

Fuel Skills-Based Learning for Everyone. Your donation helps people pay for teachers, trainers, and experts teaching real skills so they can get in-demand jobs of the future.

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Challenging the Outdated Systems Holding People Back

The Unemployment Society exposes the ironic, overly complex, and outdated infrastructure across education, work, government, and nonprofit systems — and explores how we can build something better.

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The Mission

The world is changing fast, but the systems meant to help people thrive haven’t kept up. The Unemployment Society highlights the frustrations, inefficiencies, and contradictions in today’s access and expectations of education, employment and money. Through conversations, research, and community stories, we reimagine what a fair, functional, and future-ready system could look like.

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GET INVOLVED

GENERATE CONVERSION.
ACCELERATE CHANGE.

Follow along, show up, and be part of building something better.

Get on the Mic.
Tell the Truth.

If you’re living the chaos of school, work, or unemployment—or have a concept, way-of-doing it that flips it on its head—we want you on the podcast. This is a space for real stories, uncomfortable truths, and honest experiments in doing things differently.

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Featured Videos

Upskilling: It's Not About College, but It Is About Education | Strategic Shift Podcast

This episode explores the future of work through the lens of public education and equity. Karim Abouelnaga, CEO of Practice, explains why potential is universal but opportunity is not and how Title I schools can raise proficiency through thoughtful design, transparent tools and the practical use of AI.

How we will fix and update an outdated and broken system in 1 year.

In this first live cast Kim will talk about why we are facing the biggest unemployement gap in the last 60 years and what you can do to help yourself and others. 

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Is the evolution of the original Strategic Shift initiative — expanding beyond leadership conversations into a broader movement focused on systemic change across education, employment, and public service. The mission remains the same: help people reframe their thinking about access and management of money, government, education, employment and more to inspire progress.

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Your donation helps people pay for teachers, trainers and experts teaching real skills so they can get in-demand jobs of the future. 

Fuel Skills-Based Learning for Everyone

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Stop Guessing Your Next Move

Work is changing fast, and you don’t have to figure it out alone. Your AI Career Assistant can help you plan for these changes.

Are Your People, Skills, and Roles Out of Sync?

pepelwerk gives you a single system to see your workforce clearly, close the gaps, and move your organization forward with confidence.

Join the Next Roundtable

Join real conversations with students, workers, and leaders about how work and education can improve. Your voice matters and your ideas are needed.

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Are Your People, Skills, and Roles Out of Sync?

​pepelwerk gives you a single system to see your workforce clearly, close the gaps, and move your organization forward with confidence.

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JOIN THE ROUNDTABLE

Join real conversations with students, workers, and leaders about how work and education can improve. Your voice matters and your ideas are needed.

EPISODES & BLOGS

LISTEN. SHARE. FOLLOW.

How we will fix and update an outdated and broken system in 1 year.

In this first live cast Kim will talk about why we are facing the biggest unemployement gap in the last 60 years and what you can do to help yourself and others. 

Upskilling: It's Not About College, but It Is About Education | Strategic Shift Podcast

This episode looks at the future of work through public education and equity. Karim Abouelnaga, CEO of Practice, shares how Title I schools can improve outcomes using thoughtful design, transparent tools, and AI.

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Don’t just listen — engage, question, challenge, and Join the Movement with Unemployment Society.

The Unemployment Society is where people who are done pretending the system works come to compare notes, share stories, and build something better. Get the latest episodes, roundtables, and actions you can take—so you’re not just watching change, you’re part of it.

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Join the movement

Done pretending the system works?
Good. So are we.

The Unemployment Society is where people who see through the noise come to compare notes, push back, and build something better. Episodes, roundtables, and real actions — not just content.

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