Session Overview
The path to success isn’t a straight line anymore. To reach the peak, leaders need a workforce that's willing to explore. That matters more than ever now AI has overturned long-held assumptions about high performance. When anyone can produce endless content, human attention and judgment become the scarce resources, and agility, innovation, and collaboration start to matter more than scale.
Hosted by Kaz Hassan (Unily), this panel brings together Sam Rope (The Adecco Group), Laura Jennings (dentsu), and Alexia Cambon (Microsoft), to explore how to build that workforce when, as Alexia puts it, “this is day one for everyone.”
The panel discusses moving to hybrid workforce orchestration, designing organizations around human-AI complementarity, and protecting “productive friction,” the pushback that helps people and ideas grow. At the heart of the conversation sits the urgency to invest as much in skills and operating models as in the technology, ensuring employees aren’t “drowning in a sea of information” but surrounded by trusted intelligence. This is how you build a future-ready workforce.
What you’ll learn
Watch the session to discover:
- Why human attention and judgment are becoming your workforce’s scarcest resources, and how to protect them when AI makes content limitless
- Which friction to remove, and which friction helps people learn and grow
- How to redesign processes for the AI era and why fixing one bottleneck in isolation just moves it somewhere else
- How to build a culture of continuous learning, particularly when AI readiness is a leadership responsibility rather than a one-off training course
- How leaders drive adoption by role-modeling, with a Microsoft experiment showing a 37% statistically significant bump in usage every Tuesday after a senior leader emailed on Monday about how they used AI
Meet the speakers:
Laura Jennings - Deputy Chief Communications Officer, dentsu
Laura Jennings is Deputy Chief Communications Officer at dentsu, where she helps shape and drive the company’s global communications strategy across transformation, culture, leadership and growth. Working closely with dentsu’s executive leadership team, she leads communications around some of the organization’s most significant business priorities, including AI, innovation, workforce transformation and the future of the client-agency relationship.
Alexia Cambon - Research Director, Microsoft
Alexia Cambon leads Microsoft's New Future of Work Initiative, a cross-company coalition of scientists working to shape a better future of work for all. A senior science leader in the Office of Applied Research, she specializes in forward-deployed research on human-AI collaboration and the changing nature of work. Alexia's research uncovers new ways of working and translates rigorous scientific insight into clear, compelling narratives - helping organizations understand how AI is reshaping their structures, culture and teamwork.
Sam Rope - Group SVP HR Strategy & Transformation, The Adecco Group
Sam Rope leads HR Strategy and Transformation at The Adecco Group. With a background in statistics, she combines analytical rigour with strategic insight to design data-driven people strategies that drive measurable business outcomes and sustainable growth.
Her approach focuses on creating inclusive workplaces where colleagues feel empowered to bring their authentic selves to work, while enabling leaders to build diverse, high-performing teams.
Kaz Hassan - Principal, Product Strategy & Market Intelligence, Unily
Having spent 10 years immersed in the employee experience space, Kaz has a reputation for being a thought leader with a cutting-edge stance on the latest industry trends and predictions. His experience rolling out more than 20 intranets to over a million employees means he has on-the-ground knowledge and data to back up his innovative perspectives - and he is not afraid to challenge the status quo.