What is the Future-Ready Talent Management Programme?
The talent context has changed. Has your approach kept up?
Rather than focusing solely on talent processes, the programme examines the broader shifts affecting talent today – from strategic workforce planning and skills-based thinking to workforce demographics, AI, talent mobility and changing career expectations.
Participants will leave with practical tools, a personalised action plan and greater confidence to evolve talent practices within their own organisations. Based on the programme outline provided in the document.
Re-think talent
for a new context
Connect talent strategy directly to business outcomes
Navigate AI, skills and workforce transformation
Build actionable plans for future workforce success
What Are The Key Benefits?
Many organisations are experiencing a growing gap between talent management activity and business outcomes.
This programme explores the major shifts reshaping talent management and how organisations can respond more effectively:
Programme participants will:
- Develop a contemporary talent management framework aligned to today’s business challenges
- Strengthen your ability to connect talent strategy directly to business strategy and workforce needs
- Build confidence in applying strategic workforce planning principles to talent decisions
- Learn how to identify talent risks and prioritise interventions where they create greatest value
- Explore practical approaches to skills-based thinking, talent mobility and workforce flexibility
- Understand how AI may reshape talent, careers, leadership and workforce development
- Challenge outdated assumptions and identify opportunities for innovation across the talent lifecycle
- Create a personal action plan to drive meaningful change in your organisation
- Build relationships with peers facing similar talent challenges and opportunities.
Who Should Enrol?
Heads of Talent, Talent Partners, Talent Consultants, Senior HR Business Partners and senior generalists with a talent interest. If you are working at talent strategy level, are actively involved with talent, and/or interact with senior business stakeholders across more than one people process area, this programme will inform, challenge and develop your talent thinking and practice.
Cost
CRF Member: £1,750 (+VAT)
Non-Members: £2,625 (+VAT)
Online Programme Dates
- 17 – 19 November 2026
- 9.00 – 12:30 GMT each day
- 6-month follow on session – TBC (3 hours online)
The Programme in Detail
This programme is run online across 3 half-day sessions with a 3 hour follow on which takes place around 6 months later. Key topics and areas covered include:
- Understanding the New Talent Context
- Business disruption, workforce trends and changing assumptions
- Re-thinking Talent for the Modern Organisation
- Careers, workforce flexibility, talent markets and capability-based thinking
- Connecting Talent Strategy to Business Strategy
- Strategic workforce planning, scenario thinking and risk-based approaches
- Turning Insight into Action
- Practical and innovative talent solutions that balance business needs with affordability and execution capability
- Doing More With Existing Talent
- Talent mobility, skills, redeployment, reskilling and longer careers
- Generational Change and the Future Workforce
- Adopt a critical lens to understand evolving employee expectations and identifying opportunities for connecting different workplace generations
- AI and the Future of Talent
- Implications for careers, leadership, capability development and the HR function
- The Future Talent Function
- Developing the capabilities required of modern talent professionals
- Personal Action Planning and Six-Month Application Journey
- Translating learning into measurable organisational impact
6-Month Follow-On Session
- Share progress on change implementation, reflect on what you’ve done so far and prepare for next steps with support from our expert panel, peer exchange, and additional input and content from Nick
- Receive your certificate of completion
“The program was filled with actionable, practical advice designed to improve the cohorts ability to make meaningful change in a simple, but effective way. Nick leveraged his considerable experience working at the highest levels in both HR and consultancy to listen to our challenges in a safe space, offering guidance and encouragement. The small group environment offered everyone the opportunity to contribute, ask questions and share challenges – the group follow up was especially useful. Subsequently the group has stayed in touch and been supporting each other outside of the Program.”
– Past Delegate Feedback
This programme is led by Prof. Nick Kemsley Associate, CRF
The programme has been co-designed and led by Prof. Nick Kemsley for over 7 years.
Nick has a wealth of experience in the HR and talent arena. His 30+ year career spans corporate, consulting and business school sectors and includes 10 years running talent functions at regional and global level and nearly 15 years working with C-suite teams and HR Leadership Teams around the world. Nick specialises in aligning people and organisation to business strategy and increasing HR functional and individual effectiveness in delivering real value to business in an ever more complex world.
Research: Future-Ready Talent Management
CRF’s work considers what our response should be as the pace of change in the business and geopolitical context continues to accelerate. Weak global growth, trade wars, geopolitical instability, regional conflicts, an ageing and declining working population, political polarisation and large-scale technological change are fundamentally changing the landscape for talent management in organisations. In this…
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