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CHRO Circle Lunch: The Workforce Won’t Transform Until Leadership Does
Wednesday, 07 October, 2026 / 12:00 PM - 01:45 PM BST
About the Session
AI is changing not only how work gets done, but what organisations need from their people and from those who lead them. Faced with relentless change, many leaders instinctively fall back on what worked before: the same meeting rhythms, performance measures and assumptions about who can be trusted with responsibility.Professor John Amaechi OBE argues that this is one of the greatest risks facing organisations today. Disruption is no longer a phase to manage; it is the ongoing environment in which leadership must effectively operate.
Drawing on psychology, elite sport and almost two decades advising executive teams, John explores what people leaders must do differently: build teams that perform through sustained uncertainty, stop rewarding behaviours designed for yesterday’s workplace and develop leaders capable of navigating a future no one can fully predict.
Candid, provocative and practical, this keynote will challenge you to look beyond deploying new tools and start redesigning leadership itself.