1. Real-world experience, not theoryLaurens works daily with organizations implementing AI in recruitment, talent management and workforce planning. His talks are grounded in real cases from healthcare, government and international companies, not abstract trends. 2. Complex technology explained in plain languageAI, skills-based matching and labour market data can quickly become technical or abstract. Laurens translates…

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…