GRAEME CODRINGTON

Keynote Presenter, Author, Future of Work Specialist – TOMORROWTODAY GLOBAL

About

Graeme is an Expert on the Future of Work and the Disruptive Forces that are shaping organisations and their leaders. He is an internationally recognized futurist, specializing in the future of work. He was also a TEDx ‘Top Picks 2021’ Speaker. Graeme helps organizations to understand the forces that will shape our lives in the next ten years, and how we can respond in order to confidently stay ahead of change. He fuses creativity, client-focus and insight into the disruptive trends that are transforming business.

Graeme is one of the most talented speakers and experts in his field worldwide. His talks engage, inspire and blow out the cobwebs of complacence. For the past two decades, Graeme has worked with some of the world’s most recognized brands, travelling to over 80 countries in total, and speaking to around 100,000 people every year. He is the author of 5 best-selling books, and on faculty at 5 top global business schools.

Sessions

May 20, 2025 09:10 AM

Keynote: Tomorrow’s World Today: the Future of HR is Now

Lead Researcher at The TomorrowToday Futures Institute, Graeme Codrington, provides a powerful and refreshing look into the forces shaping the world, and shows the importance of strategic imagination for HR professionals. In a world where almost anything we can imagine is possible, we need to do better than merely optimising our existing systems. HR should be a powerful force in rethinking how business is done, and what’s possible for the rest of the 2020s. Be inspired - and equipped - to build the future now.

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May 20, 2025 01:30 PM

Masterclass by Graeme Codrington: Develop Your People and Teams for the Future of Work

We need to help all of our people develop a future-focused mindset, so that they can deal with all of the change, uncertainty and complexity of the world. We know that no-one can predict the future with accuracy and remove all uncertainty, but we can improve our skills in forecasting, foresight and becoming more adaptable. We can learn to ’think like a futurist'. This session will develop your strategic imagination and future-focused mindset, with a toolkit of skills and techniques that will enable you to anticipate change and identify disruption.

These transferable skills can be taken back to your office, and applied immediately, so that you and your team can reduce change fatigue, be more confident about the future, and handle disruption with ease. You’ll be equipped to imagine what might come next, allowing you to build better strategies, plan more effectively, and face the future confidently.

Overview of key content:

The world is changing quickly - driven increasingly by disruptive and exponential change. We will look at what happens if we fail to identify disruption, and why our brains are not good at doing this.
We need to ensure we are not merely optimising our existing businesses, but actively looking at business model innovation. As Henry Ford said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses’”.
It’s not enough to simply try and predict change. Rather, we need to build adaptive, future-focused skills into ourselves and our teams in order to be best prepared for both threats and opportunities in the rest of the 2020s and the next decade.
We will look at a few of the tools that futurists use to be more forward thinking, including future backward scenarios, unlearning, ridiculous ideas, genuine curiosity and business model innovation.
We need to develop three key attitudes towards the future if we are going to do more than merely survive, but rather thrive:
- We need to learn how to rethink and unlearn as a basis for innovation and adaptability.
- We must build a culture of experimentation into our organisational DNA.
- We must face the future with urgent optimism - believing that the best is possible, change is exciting and opportunities await those who are ready for them.

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