Workplace Agility - by Natal Dank (Paperback)

About the Book

Use this practical guide to implement the Workplace Elasticity model and design future-fit organizations that align HR and business strategy for an AI-enabled, uncertain world.

Book Synopsis

Uncertainty is no longer something organizations can plan around, it is the environment HR and business leaders now operate in every day. Rapid advances in AI, shifting skills demands, evolving employee expectations, and widening social and economic pressures mean that traditional approaches to resilience, agility, and efficiency are no longer sufficient.

Workplace Agility explains how organizations can move beyond coping with disruption to actively designing for it. Introducing the Workplace Elasticity (WE) model, the book shows how people strategy, business strategy, and Industry 5.0 thinking can be integrated to create organizations that are able to bend, stretch, and re-form without breaking. Rather than assuming stability will return, it provides a practical framework for operating effectively when uncertainty is the norm.

Combining strategic insight with practical guidance, the book explores how HR and business leaders can align workforce planning, operating models, culture, and decision-making in AI-enabled environments. It addresses human-machine collaboration, evolving skills and roles, and the need for connection, purpose, and sustainable performance alongside technological change. Throughout, it translates complex ideas into clear actions, supported by tools, templates, and evidence-based practices.

Drawing on global, real-world from TomTom, Novartis and Liberty Latin America, Workplace Agility is essential reading for HR and business leaders seeking to build adaptive, future-fit organizations that can thrive in complexity rather than collapse under it.

About the Author

Natal Dank co-founded PXO Culture, which offers learning, coaching and consultancy and specializes in people experience, HR and business agility. She is also Chief Trendwatcher at the HR Trend Institute and was named one of the Most Influential HR Thinkers of 2022 by HR Magazine. Recognized as a pioneer of Agile in the people profession, Natal hosted the first London-based Agile HR Meetup in 2016, which has since grown into a global movement reshaping the L&D and people profession. She is the author of Agile L&D and the co-author of Agile HR, both published by Kogan Page.