Opinion
Top 5 trends shaping the future of career coaching
Jenny Booth shares insights from over two decades in careers guidance and calls for a shift toward much more inclusive, flexible, and strengths-based support for neurodivergent young people. She explores the growing role of families, digital tools, and purpose-led planning in shaping credible, compassionate career paths for the next generation. After more than two decades working in careers advice and guidance with young people, I have seen the landscape change dramatically. What once centred on information giving and career matching…
Growth through AI starts with your people, not platforms
AI holds huge promise for business, but many workers feel overwhelmed. Cassandra MacDonald explores how organisations can bridge the gap between innovation and confidence by shifting the focus from technology tools to people. Communication, culture and capability are key to unlocking AI’s true potential and turning disruption into sustainable growth. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the workplace at breathtaking speed, and its potential to fuel business growth is vast. Yet, amid the hype, another reality is emerging, one where many…
The AI race is on, but is your team reskilling fast enough?
Mila Smart Semeshkin argues that traditional training cycles can’t keep up with today’s pace of change. With AI reshaping work, fast reskilling through microlearning is essential. Mila explores how personalised, in-context learning, supported by culture and data, helps organisations close skill gaps and stay competitive in a rapidly evolving market. Five years ago, nobody was hiring prompt engineers, but today AI is revolutionising job roles faster than most organisations can keep up with. It’s expected that 39% of workers’ core…
Inclusion starts here: Empower your team to make the difference
Robert Ordever explores why top-down diversity, equity and inclusion strategies often fall short. He argues that truly inclusive cultures are built from the ground up, through team behaviours, emotional intelligence and authentic recognition—turning DE&I from a corporate initiative into an experience that helps everyone feel valued, heard and respected. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) initiatives fail when organisations adopt a purely top-down approach. Often concentrating on attracting a range of diverse employees from varying backgrounds, these organisations throw employees together…
Planning for tomorrow’s workforce, today
Cory Steinle explores how automation, AI, and shifting market needs are transforming workforce planning. By combining task and skills intelligence with ethical AI, organisations can shift from reactive hiring to proactive strategy, redeploying talent, boosting agility, and making good people decisions that keep pace with the speed of business change. Organisations are navigating a workforce landscape being reshaped by automation, generative AI, and evolving markets. By 2030 up to 30% of current working hours could be automated (McKinsey), and nearly…
Value is back, and this time it means business
At the 2025 Business of Training Conference, Gaëlle Watson reports on an industry redefining its purpose. With trust, outcomes and business impact essential, L&D professionals are being challenged to adapt their approach, collaborate and prove their value or risk being left behind in a world of changing work and demands. The 2025 Business of Training Conference from Inmisceo once again gathered an eclectic mix of leaders: from management development specialists to niche providers in aviation and healthcare, united by a…
The human side of AI: Why wellbeing is the next core capability
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping work at speed, but human wellbeing is struggling. TJ Conference speaker Tom Bryant explores how L&D can take the lead in building wellbeing as a skill, designing more human-centric workplaces and using AI with intention to support emotional intelligence, resilience and adaptability in the modern workplace. Artificial intelligence is transforming the workplace faster than most of us imagined, taking on administrative, analytical and repetitive tasks with astonishing speed. Yet while AI is supposed to lighten the…
From AI to ADHD: designing learning for every mind
Learner outcomes are dropping, and AI is being hailed as the fix, but technology alone won’t solve a broken approach to learning design. TJ Conference speaker Sascha Evans argues that L&D must flip the script on inclusion and adopt a proactive mindset to support diverse learners from the very beginning. This week, Google published a white paper laying out their vision for the Future of Learning. Their research shows that learner outcomes have dropped sharply worldwide, and UNESCO projects a…
The wellbeing effect: why smart L&D strategies go beyond skills
Craig Fearn explores the basics of how L&D, when strategically focused on wellbeing, transforms both individuals and organisations. This integrated approach builds resilience, reduces burnout and boosts performance, creating a workplace where people can thrive personally and professionally, all while driving long-term business growth and engagement from the inside out. When L&D is applied strategically it is a catalyst for systemic change; this is particularly apparent when applied to employee health and wellbeing initiatives. By investing in L&D with a…
AI vs human learning: Where the real value lies
Helen Routledge argues the real opportunity with AI isn’t replacing L&D teams but rethinking how we approach our work. By blending AI’s scalability with human insight, learning becomes immersive, realistic, and effective; preparing people for critical moments before they count and delivering performance-driven outcomes that matter to individuals and organisations. Every few months, a new ‘influencer’ pops up declaring that AI is going to replace trainers, instructional designers, or entire learning departments. It’s a provocative headline and it generates clicks…
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