Summary Notes: Volatility, Signals and Strategic Decisions

On Wednesday 17 June, CRF and our partners Headspring co-hosted an in-person event for senior HR leaders – Making Sense of Market Complexity: Volatility, Signals and Strategic Decisions

Featuring expert input from speakers Katie Martin, columnist and member of the Financial Times editorial board, Financial Times and Björn Beam, Director of Technology Analysis & Geopolitical Intelligence Expert, the session included:

• How financial markets are sending conflicting signals to leaders, from weakening confidence in the US dollar to diverging messages from bond and equity markets amid ongoing geopolitical instability.
• The ways in which geopolitical competition is reshaping the workplace, with talent, data, supply chains and business operations increasingly exposed to risks once considered matters of national security.
• Why organisational resilience must now be treated as a people issue, requiring HR leaders to build geopolitically literate workforces, strengthen cyber hygiene and move from awareness to meaningful contingency planning.

These Summary Notes recap the insights and provide links to further resources.

You can also access the event presentation slides here.