SkillShifters™
SkillShifters™ by Queens Code AI

Handing People ChatGPT Is Not a Workforce Strategy.

AI tools are entering workplaces faster than people are being prepared to use them. SkillShifters™ builds practical skills, human judgment, and occupation-specific readiness.

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Start With the Diagnostic

See How AI Is Changing the Work

Before deciding what training people need, start by understanding how AI is changing the occupation. The AI Disruption Report provides an evidence-informed look at the tasks being affected, where human judgment still matters, emerging skill gaps, and what workforce preparation may be needed next.

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Start with an occupation. Get an evidence-informed snapshot of how the work may be changing.

  1. Affected Tasks
  2. Human Judgment
  3. Skill Gaps
  4. Workforce Preparation
Access Is Not Readiness

Access to an AI tool does not create occupational understanding, verification skill, responsible practice, or the judgment to make a decision. Those capabilities have to be developed deliberately — starting with the work itself.

We don’t replace occupational training. We strengthen it.

SkillShifters™ Pathways

Three Pathways. One Goal: People Ready for Changing Work.

Practical workforce readiness, occupation-specific skill shifts, digital and AI literacy, and human judgment — delivered through employer, education, and workforce partnerships.

Skilled Trades

Practical AI and workforce-readiness experiences for skilled-trade pathways and technical occupations.

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Technology

Practical AI, digital, and problem-solving experiences that prepare learners for changing technology-enabled work.

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Youth & STEAM

Hands-on career-readiness experiences that help young people build practical AI, digital, design, problem-solving, communication, and career-exploration skills.

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The SkillShift™ Method

How SkillShifters™ Works

We start with the occupation, identify how AI is changing the work, determine the emerging skills people need, and build practical training around those gaps.

  1. 01

    Occupation

    Understand the work.

  2. 02

    Disruption

    Identify where AI is changing tasks, workflows and expectations.

  3. 03

    Skill Gap

    Determine which human and AI-enabled capabilities matter more.

  4. 04

    SkillShift™

    Build practical training around those gaps.

The Human Advantage

Using AI Is the Easy Part. Judging It Is the Skill.

AI can generate an answer. People still need to know whether that answer is accurate, appropriate and defensible. SkillShifters™ develops the verification, judgment and decision-making skills needed when AI becomes part of the workflow.

  1. 01Use

    Apply AI to a real task in the actual workflow.

  2. 02Verify

    Check the output against the source, record, or standard.

  3. 03Judge

    Decide whether it holds up given occupational context.

  4. 04Correct

    Fix what's wrong instead of accepting a plausible answer.

  5. 05Escalate

    Know when a human or specialist must decide.

  6. 06Explain

    Defend the decision to a reviewer, auditor, or client.

Youth & STEAM

Hands-on career-readiness experiences for the next generation of workers and creators.

SkillShifters™ Youth & STEAM experiences help young people build practical AI, digital, design, problem-solving, communication, and career-awareness skills through interactive challenges.

Rather than simply learning about technology, participants use it to create, test, make decisions, solve problems, and connect what they are doing to real career pathways.

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Sketch → Game

Participants begin with a simple hand-drawn idea and transform it into an interactive digital experience using AI-assisted tools, creativity, design thinking, and real-world problem solving.

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Drone Ops: Rescue Run

An interactive challenge that can introduce participants to career pathways such as:

  • Software development
  • Game design
  • Engineering
  • Data analysis
  • Digital design
  • Project management
  • Emergency management
Portrait of Sydney Vanderpool, The AI Skill Shifter™, founder of Queens Code AI and creator of SkillShifters™
Founder

Sydney Vanderpool — The AI Skill Shifter™

Sydney Vanderpool is the founder of Queens Code AI and creator of SkillShifters™. Her approach starts with the work — not the AI tool — so people build the practical skills and judgment changing work requires.

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Tell us who you’re preparing — workers, learners, or youth — and the kind of experience you have in mind. We’ll start from there.

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