HR is being rewritten. The CHROs who move first will write it
HR, as practised for the last 30 years, will not be the same by 2030. But Skillsoft’s Ciara Harrington sees this as an opportunity, not a threat, for the function.
Fractional HR is being built one practitioner at a time
Senior HR leadership has long meant a full-time, in-house executive. In the first two pieces, Gwen Lockington, Founder and Principal of Lockington People and Advisory, looks at where the fractional model fits, when a business needs senior HR leadership, and what the shift asks of the leaders who make it.
Embraer’s talent strategy: Why aerospace needs people who cross disciplines
Asia-Pacific’s aviation sector has no shortage of engineers. What Embraer struggles to find are people who combine technical depth with commercial and customer skills. Andreza Alberto, Executive Vice-President of People, ESG and Corporate Communications, explains how the aircraft maker develops them.
Change fatigue and AI: How leaders can keep teams thinking
As change fatigue sets in and AI takes on more of the work, organisational creativity specialist Dr Ken Hudson explains how small, two-minute shifts in thinking can help teams adapt.
Former Tesla HR leader: ‘AI is our moment’
At the HR Strategy Summit at HR Tech, Valerie Capers Workman explored what HR needs to do differently to step into the new expectations for the HR function.
Asia is not one culture. Pandora built its Singapore hub on knowing the difference
With Pandora’s Asia headquarters now open in Marina Bay, Chief People and Planet Officer Byron Clayton explains what the region demands of a people function, and why the company now talks about careers instead of career paths.
From Learning Outcomes to Business Outcomes: How AI Is Transforming Enterprise Learning
This exclusive, invitation-only executive roundtable brings together 15 senior HR, Learning & Development and Talent leaders to explore how AI can transform enterprise learning, strengthen workforce capabilities and drive measurable business outcomes.
CHRO Singapore 2026: Time saved, skills at risk, trust on the line
From productivity gains to disappearing entry-level work and the gap between what leaders and employees sees, the conversation at CHRO Series Singapore 2026 kept returning to what AI changes for people.
Every problem they solved had a precedent. That is the warning sign
The second part of our look at the research on resilience across cultures turns to what organisations can build – starting with the uncomfortable possibility that stability itself gets in the way.
Your untouchable leaders are costing more than you think
Whether the leader is intimidating or micromanaging, it is time to get them to look in the mirror.
Capability is harder to recognise when it arrives in an unfamiliar shape
New research on resilience across cultures finds that organisations tend to recognise the version of it they already know how to read – with consequences that run through performance reviews, succession and the problems that never get escalated.
The design was the easy part: UOB’s Dean Tong on making workforce change stick
UOB’s Head of Group Human Resources on productivity that lasts, reskilling that turns into real mobility, and how judgement gets built once routine work is automated.
AI is creating capacity. Where it goes decides the value
Ahead of CHRO Series Indonesia 2026, Novo Indonesia’s Adhika Widya Sena on the move from implementing HR technology to shaping the human operating model around it.
Women’s share of new senior hires has fallen every year since 2022, WEF report finds
The World Economic Forum’s 20th Global Gender Gap Report shows a shrinking pipeline of women into senior roles, and a C-suite where women lead HR but rarely technology.
What raising a child taught a CEO about leading
Being physically present with his newborn son did not make Dr Xander Ong a more confident father—taking sole responsibility did. The Centre for Fathering CEO on why that shift from helping to owning shapes stronger leaders, and why parental leave belongs in the conversation about talent.
When AI recommends, who stays accountable?
As AI takes on a growing share of hiring, performance, and promotion decisions, Rita Tsui, Founder of AsiaHRM, argues that the harder governance questions are not about policy at all, but about judgement, accountability, and the behaviour of the people making the call.
Zuckerberg’s AI vision: More jobs, fewer workers and ‘personal superintelligence’
Mark Zuckerberg’s new AI manifesto argues that automation would not outpace human capability and outlines what that means for HR leaders.
The dull work built your senior people. Now AI does it first.
If AI absorbs the routine tasks juniors once cut their teeth on, where does the next generation of judgement come from? Dr Gary Ang, co-author of a new Asia Tech Alliance paper, on the pipeline problem HR is not yet planning for.
Finishing the training isn’t the same as changing how you work
As Samsung reskills its workforce from the top down, Samsung Indonesia’s Christine Josephine shares why leadership makes change believable and what it takes to make it stick.
AI works better when HR helps lead it, new research finds
A recent survey shows AI’s real fault line is organisational: whether HR has a formal seat at the table for AI implementation.
The hardest question in AI transformation: “So what?”
Two years into HubSpot’s AI-first journey, adoption and fluency turned out to be the easy part. The real work, says its talent chief, lies in a “missing middle” most organisations never see.
Allyship in technology: Why intentional support still matters
NTT DATA’s Png Kim Meng calls on technology leaders to make allyship an everyday practice that challenges bias, broadens opportunity, and fuels business success.
How ADP CEO Maria Black leads through uncertain times
CEO Maria Black, marking her 30th year at ADP, says that managing a workforce is only getting more complex, and so is HR’s role.
Beyond execution: Why the AI revolution is scaling the human premium
As AI absorbs more of the execution in knowledge work, StarHub’s Tan Toi Chia argues the real transformation is happening in how work is designed – and in the human capabilities that never show up on a balance sheet.
AI is embedding faster than workforces are adapting, Kyndryl finds
AI adoption has surged, but confidence in workforce readiness has fallen. Kyndryl’s Dr Vishnu Nanduri explains why the gap is widening and what the organisations pulling ahead do differently.
Gen Z’s AI anxiety isn’t really about AI
In conversations about leadership, Gen Z’s AI anxiety is not the issue. It is a symptom of an ever-widening leadership gap.
In South-East Asia, AI moves at the speed leaders set – not the speed tools arrive
Accenture’s Marta Lajmi argues the Western playbook for AI adoption – access, training, incentives – does not translate to a region where employees wait for leaders to make change feel safe.
Leadership Awareness Program: An Exclusive 3-Day Workshop by Aspire
This exclusive, invitation-only 3-day Leadership Growth Experience is designed for 20 senior HR leaders. Through experiential learning and guided reflection, participants will strengthen self-awareness, uncover blind spots, and develop the clarity and confidence to lead with greater impact.
Fixing the workplace, not just the symptoms: Inside HSBC Singapore’s structural shift to employee wellbeing
Head of People Mukul Anand discusses moving beyond traditional coping mechanisms to embed genuine psychological safety and inclusive design into everyday operations.
AI harmony is a design problem, not a technology one
Worawat Suvagondha, PMAT President and Chief People Officer of Siam Commercial Bank, on redesigning work around people – and the one capability he tells his own HR team never to lose.