Introducing Workplace Elasticity

About this event

Future-ready people and business agility, blending people strategy and human-AI to help organisations adapt at speed

Why is this topic important to you?

Never have we experienced so much uncertainty, paradox, and complexity in our working lives. Rapid advances in AI and technology are transforming careers almost overnight, graduates enter the workforce unsure of what their future jobs will even look like. At the same time, we face an existential race to protect both humanity and the planet we depend on.

Yet amidst this turbulence lies a powerful potential, a kind of anti-fragility where businesses and people grow stronger by accepting and even embracing this state of fundamental uncertainty. To unlock it, we need a new kind of workplace elasticity.

Workplace Elasticity

In this thought-provoking webinar, Natal Dank author of Agile HR and Agile L&D, reveals her latest insights on workplace elasticity and the topic of her third book, set to published early 2027.

Drawing from the vision of Industry 5.0, cathedral thinking and moonshot strategy she explores how leaders can make conscious, proactive choices that bring humans and technology together to create sustainable, co-intelligent systems.

Through the dual lens of people strategy and business strategy, this talk unpacks the practical ingredients of workplace elasticity from product-led thinking to T-shape skills mapping to the concept of workplace togetherness that foster resilience, creativity, and connection.

This is not just about surviving the future of work, it’s about shaping it.

About the speaker:

Natal Dank

A pioneer in business and HR agility, Natal Dank is a world leading expert, author, and keynote speaker. Recognized as a workplace transformation specialist, Natal partners with global organisations to exponentially improve the experience of work and enhance business productivity and performance. Known for game changing, evidence-based, value-led solutions, Natal aims to empower leaders and teams to boldly shape our evolving world of work. A leading figure in the Agile HR movement, she authored two influential books (Agile HR and Agile L&D) and has been named one of the Most Influential HR Thinkers. Natal is the executive director and principal consultant at PXO Culture, Head of People Strategy at TomTom, and is an Aussie who divides her time between Scotland and the Netherlands, obviously not for the weather.

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