The questions UK leaders are asking about AI and the workforce aren’t getting answered. We’re going to fix that.
This July, La Fosse is convening the AI Workforce Council. Ten of the UK’s most senior voices on AI and workforce planning, brought together to answer the questions that actually matter to the people building the AI-era organisation.
The headlines
Meet the AI Workforce Council
Ten of the UK’s most senior AI, data and transformation leaders shaping how UK organisations plan their workforce for the AI era.
The AI Workforce Council is a hand-picked group of Chief AI Officers, heads of AI, CDOs, CTOs and senior transformation leaders convened by La Fosse. Each member is doing this work in their own organisation right now, from financial services and media to insurance, retail and consulting.
Together, they’re shaping the Workforce 2027 Blueprint, our practical guide for UK leaders on how to plan their workforce for the AI era.
Why this matters
Workforce planning was built for a stable world. The world we’re heading into isn’t stable. The task mix of most jobs is changing every twelve months. Upskilling can’t keep up. Headcount is the wrong unit to be planning in.
CPOs, CHROs, CEOs, CISOs and CDOs are all being asked to figure this out at once, and most of the available material is either vendor PR or conference-stage abstraction.
So we’re doing something different. The conversation feeds the Beyond Headcount Blueprint, published in October.
Where the conversation's headed
The Council can take any question on AI and the workforce, but these are the five themes already on the table. If your question sits in one of them, it’s exactly what we want.
- The planning model itself. Annual cycles, job families and fixed headcount plans can’t keep pace with a workforce where the task mix of most jobs changes every 12 months.
- Headcount versus capability. What changes when you plan for the work, not the role. Capability means people, AI and process together.
- Upskilling at pace. The operational shift from training catalogue to live capability system, and why most upskilling programmes can’t move the dial.
- Governance, agents and decision-making. What it means to permit AI to take decisions inside the business, and where the security, governance and talent questions converge.
- The 18-month window. What UK leaders need to have in place by 2027 to be on the right side of the AI maturity gap.
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