
Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 |
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Beyond Fire and Re-hire Building a Sustainable Workforce for the Future
Your AI investment isn’t delivering. Young talent has disappeared. Skills expire before training ends.
What if these aren’t separate problems, but symptoms of the same transformation?
Every decision you make sparks organizational change, whether you realize it or not.
But today’s change isn’t just faster. It’s fundamentally different.
You’ve invested heavily in AI, expecting productivity gains that haven’t materialized. You’re searching for young talent that seems to have vanished. You’re watching skills become obsolete before your L&D programs can even launch.
Meanwhile, your workforce is aging, government policies shift unpredictably, and the traditional three-stage career model (education → work → retirement) has completely collapsed.
You’re not just managing change anymore. You’re managing a revolution.
In this webinar on December 17th, you’ll discover:
- The Three Forces Creating CEO Anxiety → And why HR holds the keys to addressing them
- The AI Performance Paradox → Why it elevates average performers but may limit your stars (plus optimization strategies)
- The Hidden Demographics Crisis → Where young workers really went and Japan’s innovative solution
- The Death of Traditional Career Planning → How multistage careers are replacing the obsolete 3-stage model
- The Essential Transformation Baseline → Critical data you need because “you can’t navigate to the future without knowing where you are”
- The New Skills Hierarchy → What matters when technical capabilities expire in months, not years
- Succession Planning Reimagined → Practical frameworks for careers spanning 60+ years instead of 40
This session is for you if:
- You’ve invested in AI but aren’t seeing promised productivity gains
- You’re struggling to find, develop, and retain talent in a shrinking talent pool
- Traditional succession planning no longer fits your organizational reality
- You need to move from reactive to proactive change management
- You want data-driven strategies, not intuition-based guesses
- You’re ready for honest insights, not vendor promises
The context you can’t ignore:
- Skills now expire in months, not years
- Traditional career models are obsolete
- Demographics are predictable but largely ignored
- AI promises remain unfulfilled despite massive investment
- Government policies create unprecedented uncertainty
The organizations that thrive won’t be those that resist change, but those that plan for it.
Your Speakers:
Professor Lynda Gratton

Lynda Gratton is one of the foremost global thought-leaders on the future of work, named by ‘Business Thinkers 50’ as one of the top fifteen business thinkers and described as a ‘rock star’ teacher.
Lynda is Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, where she received the ‘teacher of the year’ award and designed and directs ‘the future of work’ elective, one of the school’s most popular electives. Her research on hybrid work was featured as the cover article for Harvard Business Review in May 2021 and she explores issues of work in her MIT Sloan column.
Over a decade ago Lynda founded HSM-Advisory, which has supported more than ninety companies around the world to future-proof their business strategy. Her eleven books, including Redesigning Work and The 100-Year Life, have sold over a million copies and have been translated into more than fifteen languages.
Lynda served as a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and co-chaired the WEF Council on Work, Wages and Job Creation. Lynda has sat on the advisory board of Japan’s Prime Minister Abe and served on the advisory board of a number of global companies.
Ross Hill

Ross is passionate about enabling business strategy with the latest theory, advanced analytics, and technology to help clients manage complexity and deliver quantifiable, on-going business benefits.
Ross has served in all of our regions, led multiple transformation projects for Fortune 100 companies and has extensive experience building data-driven solutions within complex transformation, workforce planning and org design initiatives.
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