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The Uneasy Truth Behind High Potential
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 …
Read MoreThe AI Adoption Gap Between Women and Men Needs a System Lens
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 …
Read MoreA New Fault Line in Equality Law: What the US Supreme Court’s Decision Means for Women, Transgender Rights, and the Future of Australian Law
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 …
Read MoreKPMG’ Breach of Trust: The Asset That Cannot Be Replaced
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 …
Read MoreCan Multicultural Democracies Survive the Age of Polarisation?
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 …
Read MoreThe Workplace and the Evolving Brain in the Age of AI
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 …
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