Future of Work Keynote Speaker for HR Leaders and CHROs
Your future employee works differently.
Your employees are heading into the 2030s. Your HR and payroll were designed for the 2010s. The gap grows every year, and most organizations don’t see it yet. In this keynote, I show your audience what is changing and what to do about it.
Keynote, workshop or executive session, tailored to your audience.
Where I’ve given this keynote
- HR Week Lithuania
- Indeed FutureWorks
- HR Week Latvia
- Visma
- NGA HR
- Trendy Prace
What this keynote covers
Four shifts are changing your workforce. All at the same time.
Demographics, employee expectations, skills and technology are usually discussed one at a time, by different teams. They don’t arrive that way. I show how the four affect each other, and what that means for the decisions HR leaders make now.
Demographics
Who will be available to work for you in 2030 is largely known today. I show what the numbers mean for hiring, retention and retirement.
Employee expectations
Your future employee expects different things from work, from flexibility to development to the tools they use. I show which expectations are here to stay.
The skills gap
Skills go out of date faster than organizations replace them, and it is quietly reshaping entire industries. I show what that means for hiring, learning and careers.
AI and automation
New technology redesigns far more roles than it eliminates. I show how jobs change, and what HR needs to have in place first.
The thread through all four: organizations struggle most when work, payroll and technology are run as separate conversations. This keynote brings them into one.
What your audience takes away
Insight your leaders can use on Monday.
Your audience has heard plenty of future-of-work predictions, and many came with a product attached. This keynote gives them a way to judge for themselves what deserves attention.
It comes from experience. I spent more than 20 years inside HR, payroll and technology transformation, so I know what breaks when an organization moves too fast, and what breaks when it moves too slow.
- A clear view of which workforce trends matter and which are noise
- The questions to ask before a major workforce or technology investment
- A way to tell real change from vendor-created panic
- A shared vocabulary, so the leadership team stops talking past each other
- A view of where HR’s role is growing, and where HR needs to let go
- The confidence to decide, even when the future is uncertain
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Is this right for your event?
For leaders making workforce decisions that last years.
If you are tired of future-of-work talks that sound like science fiction or a vendor pitch, this is the keynote to book.
Who it’s for
- CHROs and senior HR executives leading transformation under budget pressure
- Executive teams deciding on multi-year workforce and technology investments
- Talent and people strategy leaders redesigning work for the 2030s
- HR teams at an internal HR day or leadership offsite
Where it works
- Conference keynote, as an opening or closing session
- CHRO summits and executive offsites
- Internal leadership and strategy sessions
- Followed by a workshop or executive discussion
The practical side
- Length
- 30 to 45 minutes as a conference keynote. Workshops and executive sessions run longer.
- Interaction
- A classic keynote, with Q&A, or with live polling and discussion
- Tailoring
- Your industry, your region and where your audience is in its transformation
- Delivery
- In person or virtual
- Language
- English and Dutch
- Regions
- Global and local events
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