Many organisations have matured their talent systems over the past decade. Performance frameworks are embedded, calibration routines are familiar, and leadership competency models are widely used to anchor expectations. Yet one topic continues to generate discomfort in executive conversations: the idea of “high-potential” talent. For some leaders, the term carries the implication of exclusivity, a …
The AI Adoption Gap Between Women and Men Needs a System Lens Generative AI is moving fast from novelty to infrastructure. Investment is accelerating. Boards are paying attention. AI capability is increasingly seen as central to future competitiveness. But the more important question is not simply: who has access to AI? It is: who is being enabled …
Transgender Discrimination Law in Transition The United States Supreme Court’s yesterday upheld laws in Idaho and West Virginia restricting girls’ and women’s school sport to athletes who are biologically female. The ruling focused on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 which prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities that receive …
The latest swathe of resignations of senior leaders at KPMG Australia ( Tuesday, 23 June), including its chairman following allegations concerning the misuse of confidential client information, represent far more than another corporate governance failure. They are the latest reminder of a lesson that organisations repeatedly seem destined to relearn: trust is both the most …
Racially-motivated violence recently in the United Kingdom has once again exposed deep social tensions that many democracies are struggling to address. The public outrage surrounding the death of Henry Nowak, who was handcuffed by police while fatally wounded after being stabbed, has raised serious questions about policing, public trust, accountability, and equal treatment under the law. At the same time, the brutal …
What leaders must understand about AI adoption Artificial intelligence is transforming more than workflows. It may be changing the way humans think. Recent work by neuroscientist Dr Hannah Critchlow raises precisely this issue. In her recently- published book, The 21st Century Brain, Critchlow explores how rapidly changing social and technological environments shape cognition, emotional regulation, behaviour and even the long-term development of human …
Organisations have never invested more in talent development. Sophisticated frameworks, succession pipelines, high‑potential programmes and capability models have become standard. Talent is firmly on the agenda, and most organisations understand that a strong pipeline, combined with intentional development, can be game‑changing. Alongside this investment sits a widely held belief: leaders own talent. However, there is …
For many organisations, AI is still being treated primarily as a technology project. The conversation is dominated by questions of tools, platforms, automation, productivity and technical skills. Which systems should we adopt? Which workflows can we streamline? Where can we reduce effort? How quickly can we capture efficiency gains? These are all legitimate questions, but …
Last week, the full Federal Court of Australia handed down its much-anticipated decision in Giggle v Tickle and, by all measures, it was one of the most consequential discrimination judgments in many years. The factual background was that “Giggle for Girls”, a social networking app created as a women-only platform and its director Sall Grover …
Artificial intelligence is changing how we work. And more importantly, it is changing how we think. Most perspectives about AI focus on productivity: faster outputs, greater scale and increased efficiency. Those gains are real, but beneath the surface, something more significant is happening, and many organisations are only beginning to recognise it. People are starting to think less, not because they are incapable or disengaged, …