Pivoting HR in a Post Application Era

Equipping senior HR leaders with knowledge to help the organisation keep up with the volatile environment & changing workforce expectations.
About this Event

HR has spent a decade optimising the application - the system, the workflow, the dashboard. That era is closing. Artificial intelligence, tightening regulation, geopolitical volatility and shifting workforce expectations are compressing the distance between decision and consequence, and Boards are asking a harder question: is the organisation itself capable of moving at the speed its environment now demands?

This masterclass, led by Datuk (Dr) Nora Manaf, equips senior HR leaders to answer that question with clarity and conviction. It moves participants through four connected shifts - from reading the macro environment, to building the business case for change, to removing the structural friction that slows organisations down, to fully activating human and AI potential. Participants leave with a personal action framework, not just a set of concepts.

Datuk (Dr) Nora Manaf is a distinguished board leader, human capital strategist, and former Group Chief Human Capital Officer of Maybank, where she led the people agenda behind the bank’s landmark Leap30 transformation and played a pivotal role in elevating Maybank to one of the region’s most admired employers. With a career spanning leadership roles at Maybank, Standard Chartered Bank, and Maxis, she brings deep expertise in organisational transformation, talent development, workforce productivity, and culture-building. Today, she serves on the boards of several leading institutions, including MBSB Group and AKPK, and is an active contributor to industry, academia, and national workforce development initiatives. A globally recognised HR leader, Datuk Nora has received numerous international and national awards for her contributions to leadership, human capital, and business excellence.

Learning Objectives:

• Diagnose what has fundamentally changed in the operating environment - geopolitics, AI, demographics, regulation, workforce expectations, cyber risk and supply chains - and translate that into organisational impact.

• Build and defend a business case for change, grounded in the rising cost of maintaining legacy ways of working and the evidence based on lost productivity.

• Identify and dismantle sources of organisational latency that prevent the business from moving at the pace the environment now requires.

• Design practical approaches to unlock value from human and AI capability that already exists inside the organisation, rather than defaulting to new investment.

• Leave with a personal, prioritised action plan that can be shared with their leadership team within one week of the masterclass.