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Short bio (50 words)
Ahmed Assalih is an HRIS expert and HR strategist. He works with large companies and public institutions on their most critical human capital transformations. He is the author of "The Death of Skills — What AI reveals about your talents, and what your skills conceal."
Medium bio (100 words)
Ahmed Assalih is an expert in HR information systems and a strategist of human capital transformation. An engineer by training, he ran the HR function and led HRIS rollouts in large organizations before advising companies and public institutions on their most critical transformations. That dual exposure — to the HR function itself and to the systems that equip it — is what underpins his doctrine. He knows HRIS platforms from the inside out, code and algorithms included, which lets him expose their limits from within. He is the author of "The Death of Skills — What AI reveals about your talents, and what your skills conceal," published in 2026. Based in Morocco.
Long bio (250 words)
Ahmed Assalih is an expert in HR information systems and a strategist of human capital transformation. His profile rests on an uncommon foundation: the combination of software engineering and human leadership. A state-certified engineer in Electronics and Computer Science from ENSEEIHT, he completed his training with a postgraduate degree in air transport from the University of Aix-Marseille.
He forged his convictions on the ground. Over twelve years inside the HR department of Royal Air Maroc, he managed a workforce of more than 6,000 employees, led major restructurings, negotiated through industrial unrest, and rolled out the airline's foundational HRIS. That dual experience — first as a technical architect, then as an HR leader — anchors his most enduring conviction: HR technology is only useful when it is conceived by people who have already shouldered the human decisions it claims to support.
Today he advises large companies and public institutions on their most critical transformations, from designing AI and HR Tech roadmaps to turning around HRIS projects in trouble. A certified architect on the leading Talent Management suites, he speaks at conferences on the future of work in the age of AI and teaches HR Tech strategy in HR master's programs at top business schools.
"The Death of Skills — What AI reveals about your talents, and what your skills conceal," published in 2026, is his first book. Based in Morocco, he can be reached at https://ahmedassalih.com and https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmedassalih/.
Quotes
Nobody has accounted for the cost of human latency.
Skill is no longer the target. It is the raw material of another object: contextual velocity.
The HR director who still talks about skills mapping in 2026 is describing a museum.
Generative AI did not kill jobs. It killed the learning lag that protected them.
An HR function that cannot calculate its inertia cost will not be allowed to speak of strategy.
It is not the algorithm that decides for you. It is your indecision that lets it.
Pay-for-Agility is not a managerial fashion, it is an accounting answer to an accounting risk.
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