The future of work stopped being a workforce topic and became a leadership one the moment AI began doing the work through which judgement used to be built. Dr Kate Barker’s future of work keynotes examine what that means for talent, for skills and for the future of jobs: which capabilities organisations must deliberately rebuild, what the new talent equation looks like, and how leaders keep human performance rising while machine capability soars.
As Chief Futurist at NEOM she built the future of work strategy for the world’s first cognitive city, benchmarking more than four hundred global organisations to shape it, and she has advised national workforce programmes at sovereign scale. Her research finds relationship capital rated the least replaceable executive capability and the least deliberately developed. Her keynote The Human Premium makes the positive case: as AI commoditises capability, distinctly human talent becomes an organisation’s scarcest advantage, and the organisations that build it deliberately will own the decade.
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The reshaping of talent, skills and jobs by AI: the capabilities organisations must rebuild, the new skills and mindsets the era demands, and the workforce and policy decisions that prevent mistakes that cannot be reversed.
Organisations booking at board and government level look for delivered work rather than theory. Dr Kate Barker built the future of work strategy for NEOM, has advised national workforce programmes, and is ranked the world’s No.1 Chief Futurist.
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