By 2025, the World Economic Forum estimates that 85 million jobs may be displaced by automation while 97 million new roles may emerge. How are companies preparing their people and their businesses to face this reality? In this episode of Perspectives, Erika Giorgana, CEO of Humand, talks to Paddy Hull, VP of the Future of Work at Unilever about Unilever’s commitments to prepare the people for the future of work. In this inspiring conversation Paddy shared how Unilever is pioneering new employment models like U-Work and working to equip everyone with future-fit skills with Flex Experiences.

The world of work is constantly expanding, evolving, innovating. But today’s organisations aren’t. Because closed silos and rigid hierarchies limit their employees basically to do just one job, at one function, for one organisation. The future of work is all about Organisational Agility, Talent Agility, Career Agility and Sourcing Agility. It’s about being able to move the right people in all the right place using a single pool of both external and internal talent. It’s about empowering people to develop new skills, find exciting new opportunities, and build their dream career on their terms. Companies like Unilever, HSBC, Novartis and other ‘ahead of curve’ companies are already making this happen and platforms like Gloat are bringing this to life!

The coronavirus crisis, like every crisis, brings new challenges but also opportunities to business leaders and CEO's. The actions of executives and their teams now, in the midst of this crisis, will significantly determine their fate. Crisis, replaced with both complexity and change, requires executives to both lead and manage effectively. It is not just about focusing on the daily metrics or share price, revenue and costs. These are important, of course, however, they are the outcome of coordinated efforts of people. Focus on people and the rest will come. In this episode Lauro Gonzalez, former Satmex CEO shares with us his own experience, learnings and perspectives on Leading Organisations through a Crisis?

Nick Leeson is an English former derivatives trader notorious for bankrupting Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest merchant bank. He was a rogue trader who made fraudulent, unauthorised and speculative trades, and his actions led directly to 1995 collapse of the bank, for which he was sentenced to prison. The error account's losses exceeded £208 million. Leeson followed a "doubling strategy: every time he lost money, he would double the amount that was lost in order to recoup the amount. It worked several times, Nick gained credibility and power within the organisation, his team and clients. However, the Kobe earthquake hit early on the 17 of January sending markets and Lesson, into a tailspin. In this episode Leeson shares his life story and his perspective about how business culture, leadership, resilience, systems and controls can all lead to the success or failure of a person and an organisation.

Eric Perez Grovas is Co-Founder and General Partner at Jaguar Ventures. Eric is also board member of Walmart Mexico and Co-Founder and President of the board of the Mexican Association of Online Sales. Eric serves as mentor Internet Entrepreneurs at Endeavor, 500 Startups Mexico, Startup Chile among others. In this episode Eric shares with us his perspective on the lessons large corporations can learn from Startups.

Macario Schettino is a Mexican economist and political analyst who calls himself "dedicated to the analysis of the reality". Macario is a worldwide recognised author and speaker and has a masters economic, a doctorate in administration and a second doctorate in history. In this episode Macario shares with us his perspective about what is happening in LATAM from a combined social, political and economic point of view. Will Humanity thrive in this VUCA World?

Samie is recognised as one of the world's leading voices on values and culture change. He has won a host of accolades including Most Visionary Business Transformation CEO, Game Changer of the Year and Most Influential CEO of the Year. In 2019, he presented a Ted Talk on Why Business Needs Our Humanity, which brought the subject to the forefront of leader's hearts and minds. In this episode Samie shares with us his perspective on the impact of Covid 19 pandemic, the challenges of Digital and Agile Organisational Transformations, and the future of work from the human side.