
Responsible AI is often discussed as if artificial intelligence is mainly a risk that needs to be controlled. In education, policy and organisations, the conversation usually starts from the same assumption: AI is dangerous, biased or unreliable, so we should be careful. But this misses a key question: Is it sometimes irresponsible not to use…

I am not an HR manager. But I work daily with HR leaders, boards and innovators across sectors. And as 2026 unfolds, one thing becomes impossible to ignore: the numbers are forcing a shift in what HR actually is. Some signals that keep coming back, across reports and boardrooms: Put together, this points to one…

As 2025 comes to a close, I mainly want to say thank you. Thank you to everyone I worked with this year. Clients, partners, colleagues, challengers, builders, sceptics and optimists. The conversations, experiments, pilots and sometimes uncomfortable questions made this year intense, inspiring and meaningful. 2025 was a true tipping point. Not for AI hype,…

Even though they don’t really look good on me, I’ve been wearing a pair of AI (sun)glasses for a few days now: the Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer Version 2. They can record video, take photos, and answer AI questions like What am I looking at?, How many people are here?, or Where did I leave my…

Last week, I had the privilege of speaking for thirty HR professionals from primary schools in Central Netherlands, during a Transvita session on AI and the Future of Work in Education. We talked about artificial intelligence, but the deeper conversation was about something far more human: how we deal with mistakes. Education knows this truth:…