Since 2020, organisations have been continuously disrupted by global events that have ended ‘business as usual’. COVID-19, developments in AI and automation, war in Ukraine and the Middle East, supply-chain fragilities, cost-of-living crises, geopolitical frictions, amplified misinformation and disinformation, climate chaos and increasingly extreme weather events are creating uncharted operating and trading conditions.

This level of turmoil signals the end of VUCA age and the start of the BANI (brittle, anxious, nonlinear and incomprehensible) era. It’s increasingly hard to predict how events will intersect and what the impact of their occurrence might be.

Modern leaders need foresight and the willingness to explore and interpret trends, to imagine alternative plausible scenarios and mitigate against risks that will otherwise derail even the most robust business plans.

In this webinar, we explore 5 meta-trends deeply impacting ALL organisations and introduce starting points for business futureproofing.

About the webinar:

This webinar is for senior executives who are responsible for business strategy design and implementation. It’s for transformation leaders, COO’s, CIO’s, CHRO’s and CEO’s who recognise the turbulence and want to futureproof their organisations.

Since 2016, we’ve researched, tracked and analysed the likely impact of key meta-trends transforming work. This webinar introduces and evaluates industry 5.0, globalisation and geopolitics, climate change and resource depletion, attention deficit and misinformation/disinformation wars and enlightened leadership.

It’s designed to help attendees better prepare their organisations for the future of work.

This is for you if:

• Your current business plan has been thrown off course and your financial results have been impacted
• You recognise running a business has become harder and you’d like to better understand the driving forces creating friction for modern organisations
• You aspire to lead a resilient, durable and adaptive organisation that yields brand loyalty
• You’re naturally curious and open to exploring fresh ideas and approaches to organising frameworks and models

You'll learn:

• Some of the realities behind AI hype
• The fragilities that globalised operating systems yield
• The implications of climate instability and resource depletion on business operations
• The scale of the attention deficit crisis and the impact of ongoing misinformation / disinformation on organisational cohesion
• What workers expect from modern organisations and what this means for the future of leadership

About your facilitators:

Cat Barnard has a career in agile workforce planning spanning three decades. Her experience lies in building and nurturing high-performing distributed teams.

Pat Lodge combines his background in commercial strategy with 18 years’ trend analysis experience with a UK-based global trends consultancy. He provides expert insight on the socio-cultural shifts most likely to impact modern workplaces.

As co-founders of Working the Future, their shared interest lies in the future of work and the adoption of new operating and organising models for commercial resilience in fast-paced and dynamic markets.