Join us in July as the AI Workforce Council, ten of the UK’s most senior voices on AI and workforce planning, comes together to answer the questions UK leaders are actually asking.

This July, La Fosse is convening the AI Workforce Council, a hand-picked advisory group, for a curated working breakfast. The conversation feeds the Beyond Headcount Blueprint, our practical guide for leaders, published in October. The strongest questions from leaders across the UK will be put to the Council on the day.
 Submit your questions for the Council

Workforce planning was built for a stable world. The one we’re heading into isn’t.

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 the same time. Most of the available material is either vendor PR or conference-stage abstraction. Neither tells a leader what to actually do in the next 18 months. 

So we’re doing something different. 

In July, the AI Workforce Council convenes for the first time. Ten of the UK’s most senior voices in AI and workforce planning, around one table for one morning. People who are operationally rebuilding the AI-era workforce in their organisations right now, not just talking about it. No vendors. No agency pitches. No conference-stage performance. 

This is the conversation behind the Beyond Headcount Blueprint, La Fosse’s definitive view on how UK organisations should plan their workforce for the AI era. It’s a working breakfast, and a piece of work we want to put our name on. 

What the Council will be discussing

The agenda follows the questions our community submits, but expect the conversation to cover: 

  • The planning model itself. Why 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. 

What Council members get

  • A founding seat on La Fosse’s AI Workforce Council, with ongoing membership through quarterly Council breakfasts and meet-ups. 
  • Co-author credit on the Beyond Headcount Blueprint, La Fosse’s flagship publication for the year, distributed to several thousand UK leaders from October. Attribution on the specific points you’re happy to put your name to. 
  • A dedicated PR profile, with your perspective pitched into the tech and business press around the campaign and the Blueprint launch. 
  • Video and podcast content built from the convening. Interviews captured on the day and turned into a short profile piece per Council member, ready to share. 
  • The Blueprint in your hands before it goes public, plus a reserved invitation to Beyond Headcount Live, the public panel event in October. 

Who’s on the Council

The Council is invite-only and hand-picked. We’re curating a group of: 

  • Chief AI Officers and heads of AI in mid-to-large UK tech and tech-enabled businesses. 
  • CDOs and senior data leaders driving AI adoption. 
  • CTOs operationally building AI capability at scale. 
  • Senior transformation leaders rebuilding their workforce around AI in practice. 

Ten members. No more. 

How to take part

If you’d like your question in the room. .Submit your question for the Council here. We’ll do our best to get every question answered, whether in the Blueprint itself or in a separate set of responses published alongside it. Everyone who contributes a question gets the Blueprint when it lands.  

If you’d like to be considered as a Council member, or know someone we should be talking to, get in touch with Lucy Kemp at lucy.kemp@lafosse.com.