The emerging trends of agile ways of working, hybrid work, product management, AI augmentation and automation and the decreasing half-life of skills have implications for the work of middle managers. The popular messages that middle managers will not be needed in the near future are inaccurate. Following a brief presentation from Christie Struckman, we’ll discuss the most relevant trends impacting the way CIOs should think about middle management, how to redesign the work of middle managers in the Future of Work, and how to retain great middle managers. Bring your questions to this interactive session and learn from those posed by your peers!