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At OrgShakers, we pride ourselves on staying close to the challenges and opportunities shaping modern organizations.
Through our articles, videos, and speaking events, we share practical thinking, emerging trends, and real world perspectives on leadership, culture, workforce strategy, transformation, AI, and the future of work. Our aim is simple: to inspire more progressive, human-centered, and commercially effective approaches to leadership and people practices.
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The Future of Leadership Interview #2
Here’s Part 2 of my recent Zoom interview with David Greenwood, Head of Digital and Consumer Practice MENA at Odgers Berndtson. Copyright OrgShakers: The global HR consultancy for workplace transformation…
The Italian Job
The pandemic lockdown has been a great opportunity to revisit some of my all-time favourite movies, and it was 30-mins into “The Italian Job” that something struck me … these…
Drop D&I now and face talent shortages in future
Click here to see this Personnel Today article: Copyright OrgShakers: The global HR consultancy for workplace transformation founded by David Fairhurst in 2020
Press Release: Remarginalization
IMMEDIATE RELEASESee notes to editors for interview bids. A post-pandemic remarginalization of disadvantaged workers risks creating a ‘talent trap’ for employers London, 7th May 2020 – David Fairhurst warns that…
The Future of Leadership Interview #1
Here’s Part 1 of my recent Zoom interview with David Greenwood, Head of Digital and Consumer Practice MENA at Odgers Berndtson. Part 2 of our discussion will follow in a…
Talking Talent – Podcast
Huge thanks to Robert Peasnell, Deputy Managing Director of PeopleScout UK, who invited me to share my thoughts on the future of HR and the creation of successful HR strategies.…
Optimism and The Future Leader
For his inspiring new book – The Future Leader – Jacob Morgan interviewed over 140 of the world's top CEOs and surveyed nearly 14,000 people to identify the nine skills…
Driving A Cultural Transformation
Employee wellbeing is rising up the corporate agenda and in this article I have written for Training Journal I explain why I think L&D practitioners have a pivotal role to…
15 years after ‘Why We Hate HR’
In 2005, Fast Company magazine published its infamous ‘Why We Hate HR’ article which stated that “the human-resources trade long ago proved itself, at best, a necessary evil – and…
Predicting the future of retention and engagement
Retention and Engagement will be key challenges for organisations in the month’s ahead. In my February 2015 HR Magazine column I predicted that “retention and engagement may well prove to…
Focus on the positive
It's all too easy in the current climate to focus on the negative. Here's a clip from a presentation I gave at the London Business Forum which shares why HR needs…
Financial Wellbeing
Organisations need to think differently about the workplace experience they are creating for their employees - and one area which stands out to me as being ripe for innovation is…
