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Five priorities for the UK's first AI Minister, Kanishka Narayan The Government's appointment of Kanishka Narayan as the UK's first dedicated AI Minister marks a significant moment in Britain's approach to AI adoption. With AI now positioned at the centre

I spent an hour with the UNBOUND mentees at the halfway point of the programme, and I came out of it with a very clear view of what is working and what is about to get in the way. Here is the short version. The relationships are good. Better than good, in

I ran two sessions on the same afternoon at the halfway point of the UNBOUND mentorship programme. An hour with the mentees, then forty-five minutes with the mentors. I walked into the second one with my cheeks aching from smiling, because the impact thes

Every hiring conversation I have at the moment eventually lands on the same question: what do we actually call this role, and what should we pay for it? That question did not exist eighteen months ago for most of the titles now appearing on client briefs.

Adoption is a metric. Capability is a strategy. That is the distinction I keep coming back to in conversations with data and AI leaders right now. Most organisations have introduced AI into at least one part of the business. Far fewer have embedded it con

The EU AI Act represents one of the most significant regulatory developments affecting workforce technology and AI-enabled hiring. Many organisations are still at an early stage of operational readiness, and I think that gap is more urgent than most board

There is no single workforce strategy for 2026. The organisations adapting most effectively this year are not the ones with the biggest budget or the boldest plan. They are the ones making role by role decisions across three models: hire, build and borrow

Diversity within technology remains both a workforce challenge and a capability challenge. Women remain materially underrepresented across technology leadership and AI disciplines, and progress continues to be slow. Only 28% of women in technology see a c

The UK skills gap continues to widen across AI, cyber, cloud and advanced engineering disciplines. The issue is no longer awareness. It is scale. Demand for specialist capability is increasing faster than organisations can build or hire it, and I do not t

The cost of replacing senior talent keeps rising. Longer hiring cycles, more competition for specialist capability and higher employee expectations are all adding to the pressure, and retention continues to rank among the most common concerns hiring leade