For the special 20th issue of LEADINGThought, we welcomed Dr Lucrecia Grandolini for an in-depth conversation about what it truly means to lead with human skills at a time when artificial intelligence is reshaping work, workplaces, and the very question of what it means to be human.

Our new LEADINGThought series has been tracking AI adoption and its impact on the human workforce. Early research on the pace of AI adoption and its impacts is unsurprisingly mixed, and occasionally contradictory. But the impact on junior employment has been highlighted consistently.

One of this year’s significant trade-offs is that between balancing rapid AI adoption with governance, trust, and integration.

For those of us who have spent most of our professional life leading transformation programmes and sifting through pages of project plans and Gannt charts, the idea of perpetual transformation sounds exhausting from the get-go.

It felt appropriate that our festive issue of our LEADINGThought newsletter looks back on the premise we started from: that maximising human potential benefits business, the economy, and society.

How do we make progress in shaping the Human-AI workplace?

In one of our recent polls 73% of respondents voted for ‘reimagining work design’ as a key priority.

The disruption to skills by 2030, primarily because of the rise of generative AI has been well-documented. Reskilling and upskilling have been identified by leaders as a top workforce strategy over the next 12-18 months [1],[9].

In a recent podcast, Patricia Frost , Chief People and Places Officer at Seagate technology, shared her philosophy of “winning with the team you have”.

The publication of the Diversity Project's Cognitive Diversity research report [3] for the investment and savings sector…

Intelligence on Tap’ is how Microsoft’s 2025 Work Trend Index report characterises the new ‘reality’ we are entering.

Severance Season 3 was recently announced!

Maximising human potential in the intelligence age is now a practical imperative.

The use of AI will undoubtedly transform workplaces.