Corporate Research Forum’s new Future-Ready Talent Management report argues that organizations must adopt dynamic, data-led, and business-aligned talent practices to navigate accelerating disruption, shrinking workforces, and AI-driven job transformation. It calls for adaptive planning, clearer talent philosophies, and a shift toward critical capabilities rather than generic processes.

RHR’s contribution to the report underscores a future-focused, context-specific approach to talent: assessing leaders not on past performance but on their potential to navigate ambiguity, drive enterprise-level impact, and lead humans and AI agents effectively. RHR emphasizes accelerated, in-workflow development, rigorous readiness assessment, and strategic alignment to create leadership pipelines capable of delivering future business priorities.

RHR Senior Partner and Head of International, Region Lead—Europe Orla Leonard and RHR Head of Coaching and Development Nicole Forward contributed to this report.

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