Future of Work

The future of work doesn’t start with AI. It starts with how we organise work.

Laurens Waling helps organisations look differently at work, talent and AI. Accessible for the whole room, sharp enough for the boardroom — and always with something your audience can start on Monday.

Laurens Waling, keynote speaker, during a talk
From jobs to agility

Why organisations get stuck while talent is abundant.

Labour scarcity is structural. Yet most organisations keep doing the same: more vacancies, more recruitment budget, more of the same. In this keynote Laurens flips the question: it’s not a capacity problem, it’s an organisational design problem.

Using recognisable examples — from the baker who became an EV-charger technician to hospitals redistributing work into tasks — he shows how work becomes agile once you detach it from fixed jobs.

Laurens Waling on stage with live audience research on the future of work
What Laurens believes about the future of work
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Work is bigger than jobs.

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Organisations are human systems.

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Organisations don’t lack potential — they lack sight of potential.

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AI makes human qualities more important, not less.

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Potential matters more than the past.

Laurens Waling on stage in front of 'the future starts here' screen
On stage

From main stage to board table.

Carrying a room of 800 people through a story on the future of work is a craft. Getting a board to ask deeper questions is another. Laurens does both, with the same energy and concrete examples from practice.

300+

talks delivered, from boardroom to conference hall

13,500+

professionals reached

50+

talent ecosystems guided in healthcare, government, education and business

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