Horizon Collective — a movement for the future of work

The movement

The world of work
is being rewritten.

The Horizon Collective is a 2–3 year movement where we are constantly evolving our thinking and understanding of the world of work and organisations in 7–10 years out.

Through a combination of crowdsourcing from thinkers and testing these with practitioners, we develop a point of view and provide guidance about the transformation changes in the world of work, as a result of AI.

The questions

The questions are
bigger than the
answers.

At this point in time, we are not sure exactly how the classic HR fields are going to play out. We also don’t have a view yet how L&D, Reward and some other areas are going to shape up.

We also do not know yet if the employee lifecycle as a concept will survive. Maybe we need to completely reimagine and evolve all these HR areas—and understand why the speed and depth of implementation differs across companies and industries.

Who is it for

“A duty of care
for the future.”

The target group for the Horizon Collective are senior HR leaders and executives in roles where they are expected to have a point of view and who feel a duty of care for the future. And who also feel the urgency and have the agency to drive this forward.

How we work

Distinct
workstreams.
One collective
horizon.

We will establish several workstreams: leadership development, talent management, performance and reward, workforce management, and more.

Each workstream will have a curator; someone who will guide and facilitate the development of a point of view about a specific area. We will also invite senior academics, consultants and thought leaders to act as our council of wisdom.

  1. 01Leadership development
  2. 02Talent management
  3. 03Performance & reward
  4. 04Workforce management
Cover of the Horizon Collective white paper: Exploring the Future of Work in the Age of AI

Publications

A foundation
made to evolve.

This publication is the first step in a 2-3 year movement where we will explore with thinkers and practitioners how this new world of work is going to play out in many areas of HR. This journey is not an extrapolation of today+AI, but rather a complete re-imagination of work, HR and organizations in a future perspective. It will force us to dream the future and start developing concepts that are going to work in the years to come, when AI will diffuse with an accelerated pace. The future is not a foregone conclusion and the Horizon Collective aims to help us build this future.

Download the white paper Download the workshop summary

Choose your level of involvement

Read.
Contribute.
Shape.

You can decide yourself how involved you want to be. Being just a curious reader is fine, contributing to a particular workstream is fine, or anything in between. Most importantly: you should feel free and comfortable with the choices you make.

We will make sure to share with you what we are working on, who the curators will be and how you can contribute. You will also ensure it all gets tied up in the collective and that we keep posting regularly about developments inside the Horizon Collective.

Join the collective

Curious reader or active contributor — there is no wrong way to take part.

The initiators

Two perspectives.
One shared inquiry.

The Horizon Collective is a joint initiative from Robyn Agoston at WorkEvolved and Ruud Rikhof at brooksmiller. They both have a deep interest in how the future of work and organisations are evolving and have been researching and publishing about it.

Portrait of Robyn Agoston

Robyn Agoston

AI & Future of Work Strategist · Advisor · Speaker · Coach

Robyn Agoston is an AI & Future of Work Strategist, Advisor, Speaker and Coach, working at the intersection of people and technology. She helps individuals and organisations design work for the AI era so they can make the most of both humans and AI. Over the past 20+ years, she has led digital and AI transformations across global companies like KPMG, GSK, Novartis, Beamery, Tesco, O2, Shell, BP and AstraZeneca and now with PMI. As a consultant, entrepreneur and internal adviser, she is a generalist problem-solver who thrives at blending strategic vision with practical implementation. She has a uniquely global perspective from living in seven countries, and working across Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Change might look different in every culture, but the human elements stay surprisingly consistent

WorkEvolved Substack robyn@workevolved.io
Portrait of Ruud Rikhof

Ruud Rikhof

Transforming HR leadership · Research · Executive search

The career of Ruud Rikhof is a blend of international HR leadership experience, research-based insight, and executive search in the Human Resources domain. The HR career was shaped, amongst others, at IBM, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis, and UBS, working globally and based out of the Netherlands, Austria, the UK, Germany, and Switzerland. In local, regional, and global positions. He was the co-founder of KennedyFitch, a recognised brand for executive search, people advisory and leadership & transformation. In parallel, he has been active in building and connecting HR communities, including as co-founder of the Beyond HR Forum. A consistent thread in his work is research and thought leadership and he has (co-)authored several studies on the evolving role of HR and the new world of work, which continues to inform his perspective and practice. At Brooksmiller, he focuses on executive search in the HR domain.

brooksmiller LinkedIn ruud.rikhof@brooksmillerpartners.com

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The future of
work will not
shape itself.

Join us and help shape the future through ideas, research, workshops and action.

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