Recent and upcoming
Speaking & Keynotes:
Rethink! HR Tech Nordic, Copenhagen - September 2026
People Analytics World, London - April 2026.
'Barcelona S&OP to Integrated Business Planning Summit - November 2025.
Online Panels:
Strategic Workforce Planning in the Age of AI: From Headcount to Capability' at the Global Workforce Transformation Summit on June 2026.
Decision Intelligence: Beyond Skills - Turning Workforce Intelligence into Better Everyday Business Decisions at the Global People Analytics Summit on September 2026.
Why me
Organisations don't fail because they lack data. They fail because uncertainty outpaces their capacity to decide.
I've spent three years building a global workforce planning function from zero inside a large engineering consultancy - which means I know what the models say, and what actually happens when they meet a leadership team under pressure. I've named the patterns I see repeatedly: Stability Theatre, Capability Debt, Weak-Signal Literacy, and the Emotional Ecology of Workforce Planning.
I talk about the part most sessions skip - why technically sound planning still fails to change decisions.
Signature Keynotes
The Courage Problem
Why your best forecast won't get acted on - and what does.
Strategic workforce planning keeps being treated as a modelling problem. It never was one. The constraint isn't the forecast - it's whether the room can face what the plan already shows. This keynote unpacks the competing commitments that quietly block hard workforce decisions, the four moves that turn an avoided decision into a made one, and what "capability debt" and "stability theatre" really cost.
For: Executives, HR leadership, COOs, workforce and strategy teams.
The Emotional Ecology of Workforce Planning
How psychological signals shape strategic workforce decisions
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Why uncertainty is emotional before it is analytical
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How leaders sense capability risks long before the data shows it
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The cultural and behavioral dynamics that distort forecasting
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A new practice for navigating ambiguity with clarity and confidence
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Audience: Executives, HR Leadership, COOs, Strategic HR, Workforce Planners
Workforce Planning Beyond Forecasting
Redefining Workforce Planning as a capability strategy
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Moving from headcount talk to strategic capability design
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How to operationalize the 9B decision levers
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Leading long-term thinking in short-term business cycles
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Positioning Workforce Planning as a leadership discipline - not a quarterly exercise
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Audience: Strategy teams, COOs, HR Directors, WFP professionals
Radical Uncertainty as a Leadership Asset
Becoming effective when the “right answer” doesn’t exist
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What leaders misunderstand about ambiguity
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How to make decisions without overreliance on prediction
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Techniques for building confidence in the unknown
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The emotional skills organizations need in the next decade
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Audience: Leaders at all levels navigating volatility
Formats
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Keynotes (30–60 min)
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Executive Briefings
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Leadership Workshops
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Internal Conferences & Offsites
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Private Advisory Sessions
Each session is tailored to organizational context, maturity, and leadership needs.