Future-Ready Talent Management:
Adapting Approaches to a New Reality

The talent context has changed. Has your approach kept up?

This programme equips participants to rethink talent strategy for a more uncertain world where many of our talent approaches are based on assumptions that may no longer fully reflect today’s context. Through CRF’s research, case studies, expert input and peer discussion, participants will explore how to build more adaptive, business-aligned approaches to talent that improve outcomes for both people and the organisation.
Location
Online
Dates
17-19 November 2026
Online Half Day Sessions
(9.00-12.30 GMT)

(6-month follow on session – TBC (3 hours online))
Price
CRF members £1,750 (+VAT) 
Non-members £2,625 (+VAT) 

About this Programme

This programme is run online across 3 half-day sessions with a 3 hour follow on which takes place around 6 months later. Key topics and areas covered include:
  • Understanding the New Talent Context
Business disruption, workforce trends and changing assumptions
  • Re-thinking Talent for the Modern Organisation
Careers, workforce flexibility, talent markets and capability-based thinking
  • Connecting Talent Strategy to Business Strategy
Strategic workforce planning, scenario thinking and risk-based approaches
  • Turning Insight into Action

Practical and innovative talent solutions that balance business needs with affordability and execution capability
  • Doing More With Existing Talent

Talent mobility, skills, redeployment, reskilling and longer careers
  • Generational Change and the Future Workforce 
Adopt a critical lens to understand evolving employee expectations and identifying opportunities for connecting different workplace generations
  • AI and the Future of Talent 

Implications for careers, leadership, capability development and the HR function
  • The Future Talent Function

Developing the capabilities required of modern talent professionals
  • Personal Action Planning and Six-Month Application Journey
Translating learning into measurable organisational impact

Who Should Attend?

Heads of Talent, Talent Partners, Talent Consultants, Senior HR Business Partners and senior generalists with a talent interest. If you are working at talent strategy level, are actively involved with talent, and/or interact with senior business stakeholders across more than one people process area, this programme will inform, challenge and develop your talent thinking and practice

Benefits of Attending

You will:
  • Develop a contemporary talent management framework aligned to today’s business challenges
  • Strengthen your ability to connect talent strategy directly to business strategy and workforce needs
  • Build confidence in applying strategic workforce planning principles to talent decisions
  • Learn how to identify talent risks and prioritise interventions where they create greatest value
  • Explore practical approaches to skills-based thinking, talent mobility and workforce flexibility
  • Understand how AI may reshape talent, careers, leadership and workforce development
  • Challenge outdated assumptions and identify opportunities for innovation across the talent lifecycle
  • Create a personal action plan to drive meaningful change in your organisation
  • Build relationships with peers facing similar talent challenges and opportunities
CRF RESEARCH: HRBP Suite

Future-Ready Talent Management

CRF’s work considers what our response should be as the pace of change in the business and geopolitical context continues to accelerate. Weak global growth, trade wars, geopolitical instability, regional conflicts, an ageing and declining working population, political polarisation and large-scale technological change are fundamentally changing the landscape for talent management in organisations.
Course director

Prof. Nick Kemsley

The programme has been co-designed and led by Prof. Nick Kemsley for over 7 years.
Nick has a wealth of experience in the HR and talent arena. His 30+ year career spans corporate, consulting and business school sectors and includes 10 years running talent functions at regional and global level and nearly 15 years working with C-suite teams and HR Leadership Teams around the world. Nick specialises in aligning people and organisation to business strategy and increasing HR functional and individual effectiveness in delivering real value to business in an ever more complex world.
Patrick Jones - Course author
CRF Learning is aimed at
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of the HR function.
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