Most organisations are investing in skills strategies, yet many still struggle to answer a basic question: what can their workforce actually do? Despite significant investment in platforms and frameworks, skills visibility remains fragmented, incomplete, or too slow to be useful in decision-making.

For many HR and Talent leaders, the challenge is not ambition, it’s execution. Approaches that depend heavily on employee input or large-scale transformation programmes can be difficult to scale, especially across frontline populations, and often struggle to deliver value at the pace the business requires. As a result, workforce decisions continue to rely on proxies rather than evidence.

Learn how senior HR leaders are building a more accurate, real-time view of workforce capability and how that shift is changing how they approach mobility, workforce planning and organisational design.

Discussion points

Why Skills Initiatives Struggle to Deliver Usable Visibility: Understand where common approaches break down in practice, and why reliance on participation can lead to incomplete or delayed insights.
From Data Availability to Data Activation: Explore how leaders are making critical workforce decisions using the HR data they already have, and what this reveals about the limitations of fragmented systems.
Moving Beyond Job Titles to Capability-Led Decisions: Examine how organisations are shifting away from role-based assumptions to better understand what people can actually do, and how that changes workforce planning.
Building a Skills View That Supports Real Decisions: Learn what it takes to create a practical, decision-ready view of workforce capability that supports mobility, succession, and organisational design.

Speakers

Zaka Farhat, Global Senior Vice President, Talent, Learning, Organization and Capability Development at GSK
Tracy St.Dic, Global Head of Talent at Zapier
Alice Yoo LeClair, Head of Talent, Culture and Organizational Performance at Ascendion
Loïc Michel, CEO & Co-Founder at 365Talents
[Moderator] Chris Rainey, CEO & Co-Founder at HR Leaders