Team Human – HR’s role in an AI revolution
Friday 11th September 2026
What’s HR’s role in the AI revolution – and are you ready?
As a Chief People Officer, you’re accountable for the capability, the culture and the dignity of the workforce.
Yet you’re also now confronted with an undiscriminating pressure for AI- and technology-driven efficiency.
Those making the demands often don’t make the distinction between the types of efficiency gains that free people up and the kind that hollows them out. The demand may arrive from shareholders, the board, or from group. And it’s set as an expectation rather than a dialogue.
Yet research shows that HR teams that have moved quickly in AI based transformation regret the choices they had and have had to row back on the changes they made. In many cases struggling to rehire people they let go.
Your challenge is how to bring AI into the organisation in a way that makes things better. We know you’re not an outright sceptic; you can see the gains as clearly as anyone. But you want to get the efficiency and keep what the organisation cannot afford to lose: experience, judgement and junior skills that mature into your next leadership cohort. What you need is a way to tell one from the other.
“If you automate entry-level jobs, you have to think about the downstream consequences both for the industry, for society and for your organisation. How do we gain from technology but avoid consequences none of us wants?”
CPO, National Infrastructure
“If you automate all software engineering… coding is probably going to be dead. Okay, well, that’s great, you could do that. But how do then people get the skills and knowledge to be more intelligent than the computer?”
CPO, Energy & Utilities
“All of the technology transformation up until this point has been about how we make what we do more efficient. Now there’s a real possibility that there’s an opportunity to completely redesign how something is done entirely.”
Chief People Officer, Fintech
Thinking through a future where AI adds rather than destroys value
HR leaders are increasingly seeing the value in spending the time to think these issues through so the decisions they make are considered and the consequences have been mapped.
In this In-Dialogue webinar, we’ll discuss how AI deployment tends to play out beyond first-order savings – where value is genuinely released and where it’s transferred elsewhere, the business case hasn’t accounted for. We’ll explore what remains uncertain; where the evidence is coalescing, and how you can make sense of this to be ahead of the organisational need, rather than behind it.
We’ll also challenge the timescale. Very little of the mandate you’ve been given may require deployment this quarter. But it will require a plan from you. The organisations that look sure-footed in three years will be those that spent a few weeks choosing well rather than a few years rowing back. We can help you consider what that planning looks like when uncertainty abounds.
You’ll leave with a sharper set of questions to take to your board and a clearer sense of what a properly considered process looks like.
Join a group of CPOs and HR peers for an In-Dialogue roundtable webinar to hear how you could ….
When?
Time: 08:45 – 10:00 on Friday 11th September 2026 online Zoom webinar.
You’ll be sent full joining instructions when you register.
About the event
Join CPOs and senior HR peers in a complimentary session that will help you to consider the impact of AI on your workforce.
In an engaging and interactive virtual session, you will:
- Hear about how not all technology is ready for use when it’s launched. When to move fast, and when to be more considered.
- Gain a perspective on how senior HR executives are reacting to and dealing with the challenge of how best to set strategic direction and plans in uncertain times
- Consider the implications for your senior HR team and wider organisation
- Explore what CPOs and OD professionals can do to determine the future readiness of senior HR and executive teams
Reasons to attend
- The opportunity to hear in-depth insights and reflections as we have developed our latest thinking and how it can be applied in your organisation
- A chance to reflect on the challenges of being one step ahead when setting HR strategy in your organisation
- Gain ideas on what you can do to support your senior HR team develop their strategic foresight capabilities
- Network and share experiences with other executives and senior HR leaders
This is a free 75 minute, live and interactive session. Places are for CPOs and senior in-house HR leaders who have responsibility for AI deployment and HR/People strategy.
Our first strategic offsite as a newly formed team exceeded expectations; it brought us much closer together and gave us a clear sense of our collective purpose as executive leaders.
We focused on the trust, cohesiveness and collaboration needed to create a winning enterprise team and already we’re seeing tangible benefits.
As I prepared to step into the role of CEO, Jacqueline’s insight and support was invaluable. She boosted my self confidence and allowed me to grow and develop stronger relationships, improve my influencing ability and gain respect in my role. She also helped me have some tough conversations which I previously would have avoided. Her executive insight is inspiring!
We gained a clearer view of what it means to be a team; how to work together, the expectations and ambitions we have, and clarity on how they could be met. It was powerful to do that work together.
Our ability to recognise and manage complexity has been transformed by the work that Jacqueline has done with us. She is a respected and trusted advisor to our Executive Team.
My team and I have benefited enormously from Jacqueline’s coaching and guidance. She is quite simply the best in the business in this space.
We have worked with Jacqueline as a facilitator of change. She’s well-structured, direct yet empathetic, and focused on organisational excellence, illustrated with credible examples.
Your executive team has the potential to be the most potent unit of performance in your organisation.
Find out the key to creating excellence in your executive team by developing collective enterprise leadership.
Our first strategic offsite as a newly formed team exceeded expectations; it brought us much closer together and gave us a clear sense of our collective purpose as executive leaders.
We focused on the trust, cohesiveness and collaboration needed to create a winning enterprise team and already we’re seeing tangible benefits.
As I prepared to step into the role of CEO, Jacqueline’s insight and support was invaluable. She boosted my self confidence and allowed me to grow and develop stronger relationships, improve my influencing ability and gain respect in my role. She also helped me have some tough conversations which I previously would have avoided. Her executive insight is inspiring!
We gained a clearer view of what it means to be a team; how to work together, the expectations and ambitions we have, and clarity on how they could be met. It was powerful to do that work together.
Our ability to recognise and manage complexity has been transformed by the work that Jacqueline has done with us. She is a respected and trusted advisor to our Executive Team.
My team and I have benefited enormously from Jacqueline’s coaching and guidance. She is quite simply the best in the business in this space.
We have worked with Jacqueline as a facilitator of change. She’s well-structured, direct yet empathetic, and focused on organisational excellence, illustrated with credible examples.
Our Practice Areas
The disruptors facing business today are too challenging for your executive leaders’ primary focus to be day-to-day execution.
Yet too many executive teams fail to balance their functional leadership, with a focus on execution, with collective enterprise leadership: ensuring the organisation adapts in our new world.
And so often the relationships between executive leaders are characterised more by competition than collaboration.
We can help transform the impact and effectiveness of your ExCo.
