Laura Thomson-Staveley

With a background in Psychology, Laura has designed and delivered culture change, communication and leadership training programmes for organisations since 2000. Laura has been fascinated in the topic of future-proofing careers due to rapid automation & AI changes. Her 2016 ‘The Robots Are Coming’ TEDx talk suggests we ‘wake up & smell the silicon’. She is passionate about sharing ideas that energise and support people to inspire them to create their future. With today’s 40-year-olds likely to retire from a final job that has not yet been invented, and a four-year-old is likely to enter a job market in 2030 requiring a skillset beyond the scope of our current education system, Laura believes that the ability for an organisation’s workforce to handle the years ahead with emotional stability, mental resilience and a proactive customer-focused mindset will be key to retaining a competitive edge.