Future-Ready Talent: Building a Talent Pipeline for Sustained Business Success - Paperback

by Tania Lennon (Author), Ric Roi (Author)

Build a future-ready workforce that delivers business impact today and long-term resilience tomorrow.

Future-Ready Talent by Tania Lennon and Ric Roi is a strategic guide for senior HR leaders, executives and business partners who must align talent pipelines with shifting organizational priorities. Written by experts from the world-renowned IMD Business School, it combines psychology, neuroscience, technology and academic research into a practical, evidence-based framework for securing the talent your business needs.

With a clear focus on the demands of a rapidly changing world of work, this book shows why traditional HR approaches to talent development are no longer sufficient and how leaders can adapt to build sustainable, future-proof capability.

You'll discover how to:
- Redefine expertise, skills and knowledge in an AI-enhanced workplace
- Apply advanced talent assessment and psychometrics for smarter decisions
- Build diverse and inclusive talent pools that strengthen innovation
- Balance buy-versus-build strategies to accelerate capability development
- Manage succession planning across a multigenerational workforce

Packed with global real-world examples, tools and actionable models, Future-Ready Talent gives you the insight and confidence to design a workforce strategy that strengthens leadership pipelines, drives organizational performance and secures competitive advantage.

Themes include: talent strategy, succession planning, workforce diversity, future skills, HR leadership, organizational resilience

Author Biography

Tania Lennon is an organizational psychologist, international expert of future ready talent and directs the Strategic Talent Lab at IMD Business School, leading talent and leadership practices for global consultancies and innovating to improve validity in technology-enabled assessments. She is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ric Roi is Affiliate Professor of Leadership and Organization at IMD business school. He is a senior business psychologist and an expert in top team effectiveness and strategic talent management solutions. Based in Singapore, Singapore, he has led advisory projects for clients in over 30 countries.