Transversal skills bridge tasks, roles and professions. They enable adaptability when the job description changes and technology extends what an individual can achieve.
Transversal is a quarterly publication that briefs the people responsible for capability development in organisations. Each issue tracks how professional work is transforming and what organisations are doing (and not doing) to enable people to find opportunity in change.
A4, folded. Ten minutes to read. Free to download, limited edition print.
Why
Work, and what it asks of people, is changing.
Help your workforce adapt as work evolves. Transversal tracks what knowledge work now asks of people, and what organisations like yours did about it. Which skills to build first, and in whom. Which programme to run next year, and which to drop. What the next job ad should ask for, and what training should arrive with the next tool. How to support the people who became managers this year. And the numbers that can best inform whether any of it worked, and what deserves budget.
What a peer did
Not what a vendor says works. What an organisation tried, what it cost them in effort and whether they'd do it again. So you can build from something real.
A number you can put in a paper
Capability owners spend a lot of their lives justifying spend to people who want a figure. Every issue carries one, with its source, so you can cite it.
Permission to stop something
The most useful thing a peer can tell you is that they did less and achieved more.
Every week we read Australian job ads to see what employers now ask of people: the roles that didn't exist a year ago, the jobs being merged, and the skills the new work demands. You get the examples, named and dated.
About the editor
A transversal career
Dr Tina Gallico has worked as an urban planner in Sydney, a policy planner in London, a strategic planner in Melbourne, a knowledge manager and then AI and open source innovation ecosystems researcher in Berlin, and on the initial team of Australia's National AI Centre. None of those was the plan. Each relied on transversal skills to deliver and built experiences that made the next one possible.
Her PhD examined how people in Berlin who began as beginners created new types of spaces and organisations, and what enables an ordinary person to act with high agency. The answer was not a qualification. It was skills that schooling rarely teaches: problem solving, decision making, collaboration and project management, with the persistence to keep learning as tools and context change. The publication takes its name from that finding.
She founded Edaith in 2023 to develop resources that help people and organisations adapt as work changes. She edits Transversal to continue that research in an open format, so readers can learn what is working on the ground, what isn't, and skills today's workplaces are calling for.
| Where | What |
|---|
| Sydney | Urban planning |
| London | Policy development |
| Melbourne | Strategic planning |
| Berlin | PhD research then innovation in organisations and startups |
| Berlin | AI, transdisciplinary research |
| Sydney | National AI Centre, CSIRO |
BPlan (Hons 1), MA (Distinction), PhD.
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Every issue is a free download. The publication is a limited edition print run.
Issue 01 The post-GPT era: AI in everyday work tasks?
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