I don’t think I have penned a political post here before. However, it was my birthday on Friday, and I share it with the anniversary of Labour’s first full year in power, so it feels like a good time.

I always had the best school projects growing up. Around age 10, my teacher set homework to construct a prototype theme park ride under the supervision of our parents. I can’t remember all the parameters, but it was meant to demonstrate our understanding of basic physics…

The acceleration of change is straining human capacity to adapt. The implications are profound for individuals, families, business, societies, geopolitics, and the planet. How can humanity meet the challenges change poses and realize the opportunities it presents? The urgency of adaptation is already impacting the workforce, business and society.

The speed, breadth, constancy, and interconnectivity of change requires business to reimagine its talent management strategy. Digital transformation and generative AI have heightened the stakes and accelerated the urgency of identifying, engaging, upskilling, advancing, and retaining an agile, digitally dexterous, purpose driven, team oriented, outcome focused workforce. PwC’s 18th Annual Global CEO Survey revealed the ability to acquire and manage talent is the second most cited critical capability for tomorrow’s CEO’s and top-of-mind for incumbents.

At this year’s MPF C-Suite Conference, our CEO, Ruxandra Radulescu, was invited to deliver a keynote on the role of brand, and how it interacts with memory, trust, and emotion in the brain.

Within International is 18 years old today, a remarkable thing for me to write when I look back on where it all started. Like many businesses, we began life in the less than auspicious surroundings of my parents’ spare bedroom in a wonderfully sleepy rural setting in Stapleford, Cambridgeshire.