Beyond The AI Hype: What Progressive Leaders Are Doing to Shape Their Workforce Strategies in 2026
Missed the live webinar? You can now access the full one-hour session on demand.
Hosted by Darren Topping, Director of Enterprise Solutions, Insights & Partnerships, and Joanna Fagbadegun, Enterprise Sales Director at Impellam Group, discover how visionary organisations are moving beyond the AI hype to shape adaptive, human-centred, and tech-empowered workforce strategies for 2026.
About the Webinar
Ben Legg's energising keynote cut through the noise surrounding AI, revealing what high-performing organisations are actually doing to stay ahead. Drawing on decades of global experience, he shared real-world insights to help leaders prepare their people, technology, and structures for what’s next.
The session concluded with a live Q&A featuring Ben, Darren, and Joanna, offering practical takeaways for you to apply within your own organisation’s workforce strategy for 2026.
Catch up on key discussion themes:
- AI in Workforce Strategy – Moving from hype to real impact: discover how leading organisations are embedding AI into workforce planning as a transformative capability.
- Blended Workforces - Explore ways to integrate full-time, freelance, and fractional professionals for greater agility and innovation.
- Organisational Culture in a Fractional World - Learn how to build belonging and purpose across a more fluid workforce.
- Skills Forecasting - Anticipate the capabilities your organisation will need in the future and start building them now.
- Strategic Planning in Uncertainty - See how market leaders navigate disruption with bold, adaptive workforce strategies.

AI might dominate the headlines, but market-leading organisations and leaders know that building the workforce of the future requires a broader, bolder strategy, to combine people, AI, and tech capabilities.

