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How Jobs And Skills Australia Turns Labour Data Into Better Career And Workforce Decisions with Professor Barney Glover

In this milestone episode of the Reimagined Workforce podcast, I speak with Professor Barney Glover, Commissioner of Jobs and Skills Australia, about how data and emerging technologies are reshaping the future of work.

We explore insights from the latest Jobs and Skills Report 2025, including the dominance of service-sector growth and the reality that AI is augmenting rather than replacing jobs. This shift is increasing demand for distinctly human capabilities such as communication, judgement and problem solving.

Our conversation also highlights the growing value of vocational pathways, the importance of aligning career aspirations with labour market demand, and the need for large-scale capability uplift across the workforce.

What stands out is that workforce planning is no longer about headcount alone. It is about building adaptable, future-ready capability, using evidence to make better decisions and design a workforce that can respond to what comes next.

Adaptive Learning for Real World Outcomes with Dr Ulrik Juul Christensen

Dr Ulrik Juul Christensen is recognised worldwide as an expert in learning technology. He has pioneered adaptive learning, data-driven content development, simulation and debriefing technologies.
His approach to learning has been shown to enable hundreds and thousands of students to become twice as fast and twice as accurate at knowing what they don’t know.

He discusses how we must empower people to become lifelong learners to drive their own performance and
the importance of real world problem solving for learning.

The Learning and Development Professional’s role in Strategic Workforce Planning

The need for strategic workforce planning is increasing and learning and development professionals are perfectly positions to add value both in the planning process and the implementation.
This is because workforce planning is about ensuring the workforce has the capacity and capability to execute strategic priorities, now and in the future.
Who better than learning and development professionals to share their expertise to inform decisions around how capability will be developed and maintained?

Workforce of the Future with Hana Maalla

Hana Maalla is a seasoned human resource professional with a career spanning both the private and the public sectors, with a particular emphasis in the public sector. workforce
With a wealth of experience in recruitment and talent management, Hana strives to understand the intricacies and challenges of finding and retaining top talent for the future workforce. One of the hallmarks of Hannah’s approach is a visionary mindset, striving to think outside the box and envision the recruitment landscape of the future. Hannah’s creative and forward thinking nature asks for solutions that go beyond traditional recruitment practices.

A 21 year journey in Strategic Workforce Planning for the U.S. Air Force with Colonel Patrick J. White

Colonel Patrick J White of the US Airforce shares his 21 year career journey in strategic workforce planning for a workforce of around 700,000 people.
He explains the two frameworks through which his career has evolved. Starting in the demand side and then moving into supply, Patrick was able to take integrate both to provide a holistic view. Through this lens he is able to provide decision makers with meaningful insights to help them prioritise requests for additional people that can be around 22,000 per year.

Steering Leaders Towards a Sustainable Future with Annette Gray

Unlock a new perspective on leadership as Annette Gray, a leadership coach with a transformative approach to steering teams through the climate crisis, joins us to share her insights and experiences. Prepare to be inspired by Annette’s unique journey from shaping young minds as a high school teacher to nurturing the growth of senior leaders and advocating for environmental stewardship. Her work with Homeward Bound and an eye-opening expedition to Antarctica has solidified her commitment to sustainable living and highlighted the urgency for collective action in line with the United Nations’ sustainability goals.

Key takeaways from the 2023 Strategic Workforce Planning Conference in Melbourne

The Workforce Planning Institute’s 2023 Strategic Workforce Planning Conference in Melbourne took place in December. This brought together a passionate group of like minded professionals, all with a common interest to explore how we might ensure we support our organisations to align business and workforce strategies to execute their priorities now and into the future.

Perfecting the art of collaboration to find innovative workforce solutions

In today’s rapidly changing and interconnected world, organizations face the challenge of navigating complex problems and seizing new opportunities. Traditional top-down approaches to strategy often fall short in these dynamic environments. That’s where Strategic Doing, a groundbreaking discipline developed by Ed Morrison, comes into play. I had the privilege of sitting down with Ed to gain insights into the benefits of Strategic Doing and how it can transform the way we approach collaboration, innovation, and achieving shared goals.

A partnered approach to strategic workforce planning with Dave Burrows

Dave Burrows has a new approach to Strategic Workforce Planning…Coaching.
He has over 30 years’ experience devoted to the delivery of data, reporting and analytics, including 17 years purely focused people analytics and strategic workforce planning in both London and Sydney.
Most recently he was Director of Workforce Planning for Faethm by Pearson where he worked with several large corporates on three continents before launching his own practice, Strictly Workforce Planning.

The windows into the future that will enable us to thrive with Kieran Murrihy

As a consultant futurist Kieran Murrihy has the great fortune of collaborating with people and organisations that want to generate inspired visions of the future, and build the models and approaches that bring those visions to life. Kieran’s formula for achieving this is Think beyond, “Connect across and Do new” hearing is skilled at helping people make sense of the important shifts taking place across our economies, workplaces, institutions, service settings and communities. His professional experiences give him a very pragmatic perspective on how this knowledge is applied in a real world setting. With extensive experience leading community regeneration efforts in areas of socio economic disadvantage, Kieran is skilled at assessing the most effective way to achieve positive and sustained change in complex settings. As the founder of Crazy Ideas College he is at the forefront of equipping young people to thrive in the modern workforce, and establishing new roads for them to play a vital role in keeping our economies, communities and environments vibrant, and prosperous.

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