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Talent, Leadership and Learning

Research: Future-Ready Talent Management

  • November 6, 2025

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 research we consider how organisations can develop approaches to talent planning and deployment that make them better prepared and more resilient to respond to the challenges their businesses will inevitably face.

The fundamental question is how to make talent management more adaptive – able to respond quickly to change – while keeping it aligned to business strategy and proactive in building necessary capabilities.

The research is written by Gillian Pillans and sponsored by: BTS, LHH and RHR International.

Webinar Recording

In addition to the research, we have created additional related resources to help you better digest the learnings, share across your team.

Research Briefing Deck

This deck condenses the research into a format which can be presented, shared and explored with your wider team who may not have been able to read the full research or attend the associated events. 

Explainer Videos

In this video, Gillian Pillans, CRF Research Director shares more detail on what a talent philosophy is and how to define one for your organisation.

In this video Gillian Pillans, CRF Research Director, shares more detail on how to use CRF’s dynamic talent planning model.

Summary Notes

These Summary Notes highlight the key takeaways from our London research launch event. They also include links to the presentation slides from our speakers and further reading.

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