The Future-Proof Workforce

Overview:As business landscapes evolve, L&D is no longer just about delivering training—it’s about building workforce capabilities that drive long-term organizational success. Learning leaders must move beyond traditional training models and take on a strategic workforce transformation role, ensuring organizational agility, workforce resilience, and long-term talent readiness.In this session, we will explore how L&D can shift from being a support function to a key driver of business impact, ensuring learning investments directly contribute to organizational growth, innovation, and adaptability.

4 Discussion topics:

These four discussion areas work together as a cohesive strategic progression, moving from systems-level alignment to functional transformation, with each topic addressing a key lever in building a future-proof workforce.

1. Strategic Alignment: Connecting Workforce Intelligence, Culture & Leadership Alignment

This is the foundation.

It explores how organisations can unify data, culture, and leadership behaviour to create the conditions for capability development to thrive.

• Strategic Role: Aligns business priorities, leadership expectations, and talent development strategies.
• Core Challenge Addressed: Misaligned efforts between L&D, HR, and business functions.

2. Future-Ready by Design: Moving from Training to Capability-Led Transformation

This is the strategic shift.

It challenges participants to move beyond traditional training toward designing whole-of-workforce capabilities that drive adaptability, performance, and growth.

• Strategic Role: Defines what “future-ready” looks like and how to achieve it.
• Core Challenge Addressed: Outdated learning models that don’t prepare people for complexity or change.

3. Redefining Impact: Measuring What Matters Beyond Training

This is the credibility and influence lever.

It repositions how L&D and OD functions define and prove their value to the business, shifting from activity-based metrics to capability, performance, and business outcomes.

• Strategic Role: Provides the evidence base needed to reposition L&D.
• Core Challenge Addressed: L&D’s struggle to speak the language of the business.

4. Repositioning the L&D Function: Strategic Enablers of Business Transformation

This is the capstone.

It pulls all the insights together and asks: if we align strategy, design for capability, and measure impact in new ways — what must L&D become?

• Strategic Role: Redefines the function as a proactive, strategic partner in business transformation.
• Core Challenge Addressed: L&D’s limited influence, siloed operations, and outdated positioning.

Together, these four areas provide a 360-degree examination of what it takes to future-proof a workforce

09:30 – 10:00 | Registration and Welcome Refreshments

10:00 – 10:05 | Welcome and Introduction

- Host: Perry Timms introduces the day

10:05 – 10:25 | Mini Keynote:

10:25 – 10:30 | Introduction to the Hackathon Process

10:30 – 11:00 | Sprint 1 – Goals and Aspirations

11:00 – 11:30 | Sprint 2 – Identifying Barriers

11:30 – 11:45 | Break

11:45 – 12:15 | Sprint 3 – Mini-Hacks and Ideas

12:15 – 12:45 | Sprint 4 – Hack Creation

12:45 – 12:55 | 3-Minute Hack Pitches

12:55 – 13:30 | Wrap Up and Next Steps

13:30 – 14:00 | Snack lunch, Networking and Close

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