Is your People Strategy Disruption-Ready?
Friday 29th May 2026 @ 08:30
Whilst we cannot predict the future with certainty, we can use systematic foresight methods to explore how events, technologies, and societal changes might coalesce to create conditions that profoundly affect both your People Strategy and your organisation’s ability to deliver its ambitions.
Without the capability to anticipate, you risk missing early warning signals or being forced into reactive decision-making when conditions shift.
Scottish Power’s senior HR team recently carried out a piece of strategic foresight using in Waldencroft’s Creating Futures process. They stress-tested their People Strategy against alternative scenarios, identified vulnerabilities, and developed strategic options that ensure they remain agile and responsive..
Creating Futures is a structured and practical approach to strategic foresight that enables senior HR leaders to look beyond current expectations and explore a range of possible, plausible, and preferable futures.
“We deal with disruption like it’s a storm we can wait out. But this isn’t weather. It’s climate.” CPO, Energy & Utilities
“There is no leadership course or training that would replace the profound learning this has been. This process has been a step-change in our strategic maturity as a team.” Bruno Pinho, Vice President, Manufacturing – TechnipFMC
Building Anticipatory Advantage in the People System
When Senior HR teams work together on strategic foresight, the value is twofold. The work delivers insight and builds capacity at the same time. Undertaking a rigorous, high-quality foresight exercise develops the capability required to navigate ongoing disruption.
“My best day at work for ages!”
HR Business Partner, Energy & Utilities
Waldencroft’s proprietary approach to Creating FuturesTM develops some of the most well-established processes used by strategists and futurists across Europe and the US.
The apprroach takes a leadership team, step by step, through a process of deepening their anticipatory skills as it relates to their very specific set of circumstances. It culminates in a workable set of approaches that can be immediately applied.
Join a group of CPOs and HR peers for an In-Dialogue roundtable webinar to hear about how Scottish Power followed the Creating FuturesTM process to review and refine their People strategy and explore together ways CPOs can help their organisation become disruption-ready.
When?
Time: 08:45 – 10:00 on Friday 29th May 2026 online via Teams.
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 maximise the effectiveness of your senior HR team.
In an engaging and interactive virtual session, you will:
- Hear about a recent live client Creating FuturesTM project
- 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 90 minute, live and interactive session. Places are for CPOs and senior in-house HR leaders who have responsibility HR strategy and senior leader effectiveness and development.
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.
