Embracing agility: HR & people playbook for the now of work

About this event

We will explore how HR can embrace agility within the complex world we operate in, with successful practical applications of agility in HR.

The world of work has forever altered. In the post-pandemic era, we’re reinventing what constitutes the workplace in real-time. Faced with complex organizational challenges never experienced before – digitization, artificial intelligence (AI), inclusion, climate change and ever-present skills gaps – People teams seek new ways to innovate and deliver value. To help guide your transformation, Natal Dank shares her five design principles for the new People Playbook. Natal’s high-energy and interactive talk explores:

1. The 5 Design Principles of Agile HR and L&D - product-led, human-centric design, T-shaped people in T-shaped teams, experimentation and delivering with impact.

2. Successful Practical Applications of agility in HR, People and L&D.

3. How you can effectively bring business agility into your team and broader organization.

Speaker: Natal Dank

Natal Dank - co-founded PXO Culture, which offers learning, coaching and consultancy and specializes in people experience, HR and business agility. She is also Chief Trendwatcher at the HR Trend Institute and was named one of the Most Influential HR Thinkers of 2022 by HR Magazine.

Recognised as a pioneer of Agile in the people profession, Natal hosted the first London-based Agile HR Meetup in 2016, which has since grown into a global movement reshaping the L&D and people profession. In 2020, Natal published Agile HR: Delivering Value in a Changing World of Work and in 2024 followed up with Agile L&D: A Toolkit to Improve Organizational Learning and Drive Performance. Natal is an Australian who lives in the East Neuk of Fife, where she runs a global business from the Scottish seaside.

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