Katja Schipperheijn, member of the CDO of the Year Awards jury, has won the getAbstract International Book Award for Learning Impact 2025 with her book The Learning Mindset. Established in 2001, this award is one of the longest-running and most respected international recognitions for business and non-fiction books that have a real impact. The Learning Impact category was added in 2022 to highlight books that help organisations future-proof learning and performance. The jury focuses on relevance, reliability, innovation, readability and practical usefulness, with special attention to how leaders and organisations deal with technological acceleration and AI integration.
Katja has been working at the intersection of innovation, learning and leadership for over fifteen years. She helps organisations implement technology in a human-centred way, including AI, so new opportunities translate into growth, adaptability, and better C-level decision-making. The same perspective is reflected in the award-winning book and her recent conversation with getAbstract. In that interview, Katja explicitly connects the impact of AI. She adds that lasting value only arises when organisations consciously design for collaboration between humans and machines, because “together we form ‘superminds’ that can be more than the sum of their parts, if we design for that interdependence rather than pretending it’s one or the other. ”
