Catapult Beyond Festival 2026

Most leadership conversations are lagging indicators.
They describe what already happened — using models built for a world that no longer exists.

Catapult Beyond Festival is designed for leaders who are operating ahead of the curve.

This one-day unconference brings together HR, L&D, Talent, and Transformation leaders who are navigating AI-driven role shifts, skills volatility, and changing expectations of leadership — often without a clear playbook.

Rather than long keynotes or polished case studies, the festival is built around working sessions:

• leaders sharing real experiments (including what didn’t work)
• emerging practices tested in public, not presented as finished answers
• learning that happens through dialogue, design, and doing

The world of work is changing faster than leadership models can keep up.

Roles are evolving non-linearly.
Skills expire faster than learning systems can refresh them.
AI is reshaping how work gets done, often before organisations know how to respond.

In this environment, imagination becomes a leadership capability.

• Imagination is how leaders connect weak signals across technology, talent, and culture.
• How HR and L&D anticipate role and capability shifts before they become urgent.
• How organisations design learning, roles, and workforce strategies when the map is incomplete.

• How to think beyond hierarchy and static roles in an AI-shaped world
• Practical tools for foresight, experimentation, and learning design
• New, experiential and hands-on ways of learning
• A trusted peer network of HR and L&D leaders across industries

Evolving Leadership Beyond Org Charts: Imagination in the Age of AI-Shaped Roles
Short, provocative talks followed by intimate office hours with senior leaders exploring how leadership, accountability, and talent mobility are being rewritten.
What this session unlocks:
How imaginative leadership rewrites organizational design, talent mobility, and leadership accountability in AI-enabled systems.

Hands-on sessions led by community partners of Catapult.

Workshop tracks will explore themes such as:

• Seeing weak signals before skills become obsolete
• Using constraints to drive innovation
• Reframing failure as strategic learning data
• Reimagining intergenerational collaboration

Workshop 1: Sight Beyond Sight — Imagining the Weak Signals That Shape Future Skills and Workforce by M. Ibnur Rashad (Founder & CEO, GUILD Asia)
A practical foresight lab where HR leaders learn to imagine future disruptions before they arrive.

Workshop 2: Old School x New Rules: Intergenerational Imagination for a Multi-Era Workforce by Glenn Van Zutphen(Founder & CEO, VanMedia Group)
A dialogue sprint where Gen Z and Gen X co-create imaginative workforce norms around collaboration, identity, and leadership.
Workshop 3: Failure Reimagined: Turning Breakdowns into Breakthroughs by Zhike Lei (Professor of Leadership & Organizational Behaviour, IMD)
A reframing of failure as strategic learning data—essential for experimentation, innovation, and rapid iteration in AI-intensive environments.
Workshop 4: Team Forging: Collaborative Gaming Reinvented by Carol Lim (Founder, The Human Futures Practice)
A game-based simulation of teamwork as strategic capability—essential for collaboration, adaptive leadership, and innovation in fast-moving environments.

Rebooted: Imagining New Human–AI Partnerships for Speed, Skill & Engagement by Dr. Susan Chen (Founder, co:grow & Talentskope)
A peer-driven session where participants use AI tools to prototype new workflows, leadership behaviours, and learning practices.

Is Skills-First the New Currency? by Surplus Network
A facilitated dialogue where practitioners exchange insights and imagine new models for skills intelligence, internal mobility, and talent–business alignment.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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