Jeff Schwartz

Jeff Schwartz is an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia Business School and the Vice President of Insights and Impact at Gloat, the world’s leader in talent marketplaces and skills analytics driven by AI. Schwartz has spent decades researching, developing, and advocating for a vision of the future of work that Gloat aims to make a reality for companies around the world.

Prior to joining Gloat, Schwartz was a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP for 20 years, where he was a co-founder and leader of the U.S. Future of Work practice, the founding global editor of Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends Report since its launch in 2011 through 2021, and the co-founder of Catalyst Tel Aviv, the firm’s first global innovation tech hub. A renowned subject matter expert on work and workforce transformation, he published his first book on the topic, "Work Disrupted: Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work," in 2021, and co-authored "Workforce Ecosystems: Reaching Strategic Goals with People, Partners, and Technologies" in 2023.

Schwartz has lived, and led consulting practices, in the U.S., India, Israel, Belgium, Russia and Kenya. Earlier in his career, he was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal and an Associate Director of the US. Peace Corps in Russia. He holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and an MPA from Princeton’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Additionally, Schwartz earned a BA in history and government from Cornell University, where he later served as a member of the Board of Trustees.