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Cheryl Stokes Joins Advisory Board

Cheryl Stokes Joins Advisory Board

Former CEO of CNEXT and Heidrick & Struggles leadership development Partner joins as QuantumBloom scales its retention and AI readiness solutions for STEM employers
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (August 19, 2026) Cisco. Nike. Coca-Cola. Meta. Novartis. For three decades, Cheryl Stokes has advised the boards and C-suites of some of the world's most recognized companies on leadership and succession. QuantumBloom, a retention and AI readiness infrastructure company focused on STEM talent, today announced that Stokes has joined as the first member of its Advisory...

AI Hasn’t Killed the Entry-Level Job. It Pro...

What PwC's 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer says about the future of technical talent and what employers can do about it now
For two years, the headline about AI and work has been about loss. Which jobs disappear, how many, how fast. PwC's 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer, built on an analysis of more than a billion job postings across six continents, tells a more precise and, for early-career talent, more unsettling story. The entry-level job didn't vanish. It got promoted. And...

QuantumBloom Expands Workforce Programs to Address...

Company broadens its retention solutions to all early-career professionals as AI raises the value of human skills and technical judgment
Research Triangle Park, NC — June 25, 2026 — QuantumBloom, a retention and readiness infrastructure company focused on STEM talent, today announced the expansion of its workforce programs to serve all early-career technical professionals. Only 28% of STEM-educated workers actually work in a STEM job while STEM job demand grows faster than every other job category. Most of the leakage...

Why We’re Not Building an AI Coach (And Why ...

A conversation with an AI researcher confirmed what we already believed about AI coaching limitations
I recently had one of those rare conversations that makes you feel more certain about the choices you've already made. She’s an AI researcher working at the intersection of machine learning and societal impact. She was with Google and DeepMind (one of the 100 original working on Gemini) and is now in academia in Europe studying AI evaluation, fairness, and...

How a PhD Engineer Reversed Her Retention Risk in ...

She was ready to leave. Not because she wasn't good at her job. Not because she didn't care. But because underneath a performance record that looked fine on paper, two risk indicators were quietly building. They were the kind that don't show up in a review cycle until it's too late, and by then you're already writing the job description to...

Rethinking Gen Z and the Future of the Semiconduct...

The semiconductor industry is at an inflection point. Billions in investment. Reshoring manufacturing. Explosive demand. A talent pipeline that can't keep up. But throwing money at the talent pipeline won't solve the problem if we don't understand what Gen Z actually wants from work. Recently, I sat down with Rachael Horsman and the team at Arm to discuss how the...

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