Workplace Agility - by Natal Dank (Paperback)

About the Book

Use this strategic guide to implement an elastic model in the workplace and design future-fit organizations that align HR and business strategy for an AI-enabled, uncertain world.

Book Synopsis

Build an organization that adapts, evolves and performs in constant uncertainty.

Workplace Agility by Natal Dank is a strategic guide for senior HR leaders, business executives and transformation leads who need to move beyond reactive change and design organizations that thrive in disruption. As AI accelerates change and workforce expectations shift, this book shows how to replace outdated resilience models with a more dynamic, future-ready approach.

Introducing the Workplace Elasticity (WE) model, it explains how to align people strategy, business strategy and Industry 5.0 thinking to create organizations that can flex, stretch and re-form without losing performance. Combining strategic insight with real-world examples from companies including TomTom, Novartis and Liberty Latin America, it translates complexity into practical action.

You will learn how to:
- Align workforce planning with AI-enabled business strategy
- Design operating models that adapt to constant change
- Enable effective human-machine collaboration at scale
- Build cultures that support purpose, connection and performance
- Apply tools and frameworks for agile decision-making

Workplace Agility equips you with the tools to lead with confidence in uncertainty, building adaptive organizations that sustain performance and competitive advantage.

Themes include: workplace agility, organizational design, HR strategy, AI in business, workforce transformation, Industry 5.0

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 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. Based in Scotland, UK, she is the author of Agile L&D and the co-author of Agile HR, both published by Kogan Page.