CEO Today - October 2023

working with us at all times on live opportunities and we serve them daily through our business social network, where we communicate, create content and help raise their profile by having them be a part of our content and marketing machine. We also have an incessant amount of events throughout the year, including meet-ups, learning events and opportunities to cross-pollinate clients in The Change Society. The ambition for me is to break up the dependency of ‘The Big Four’ in the larger consultancies at board level because it doesn't work. It's outdated and it's not solving the problem. The Change Society empowers people to build a portfolio of some of their best work and gives them the flexibility to work on their own terms. And the results speak for themselves. When people are looking to go independent, they get recommended to us straight away. I feel very strongly about the role businesses have in changing society. When I named mine after my two children, Sullivan and Stanley, it was to inspire the future of work. I hope all businesses can see why this is so important and realise that we can’t progress without change. I’m seeing more frequently in the corporate world that it’s not about ownership of talent, but rather access to it. I think we’ll see more organisations decentralise into a core, permanent workforce and contract out to the human capital cloud to do their most pressing pieces of work. Companies are too large and bloated to do the work successfully themselves, and so the role of contractors will become more logical and prominent in the years to come. The pandemic helped shift this thinking a little bit, where we had people stuck at home thinking “What am I doing? Why am I working for this company?” They’ve now realised they've always wanted to do this, they've always wanted a bit more freedom to go and take that six week holiday. I think that's across the board, whether you're a baby boomer or the new generation. That one job with a corporation is going to take eight years to get to the top, and I just think that whole idea is slowly dying out. What’s more, as artificial intelligence and generative tooling continue to advance, the pressure on traditional workforce models is expected to intensify, making change and adaptation essential for future success. I want to be right there when that happens. The evolution and the highlights of The Change Society is how we’re starting to prove that maybe we’re onto something. It serves as a testament to the evolving nature of work and the art of the possible in reshaping our professional lives. "The ambition for me is to break up the dependency of ‘The Big Four’ in the larger consultancies at board level because it doesn't work. It's outdated and it's not solving the problem. "

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