# Rethinking Strategic Workforce Planning in the Age of AI and Skills Disruption Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/digital-hr-leaders-with-david-green-244896/rethinking-strategic-workforce-planning-in-the-age-of-ai-and-skills-disruption Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/digital-hr-leaders-with-david-green-244896/rethinking-strategic-workforce-planning-in-the-age-of-ai-and-skills-disruption.md Podcast: [Digital HR Leaders with David Green](https://stenobird.com/podcast/digital-hr-leaders-with-david-green-244896) Published: 2026-02-03T02:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/digital-hr-leaders-with-david-green/episodes/rethinking-strategic-workforce-planning-in-the-age-of-ai-and Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/611a598b29aaa600197df91c/e/69807923e364600d37d700f2/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/digital-hr-leaders-with-david-green-244896/episodes/rethinking-strategic-workforce-planning-in-the-age-of-ai-and-skills-disruption Duration seconds: 2791 ## Resource AI is changing tasks. Skills strategies are evolving. And yet visibility into capability, cost, and risk across the workforce often remains fragmented.  So how do organisations move from reacting to workforce change, to planning for it in a way that actually shapes business outcomes?   In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green is joined by  David Edwards , strategic workforce planning practitioner, advisor, and author of  The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook , to explore what it really takes to make strategic workforce planning work in practice.  Join this conversation as they discuss:  Why workforce planning can feel “deceptively threatening” inside an organisation   What changes when leaders shift from thinking about headcount to thinking about capability, capacity, cost, and risk over time   What goes wrong when people analytics and workforce planning operate in parallel  Why looking beyond permanent employees reveals hidden workforce risk  How AI is forcing organisations to rethink work design, not just skills strategies  The stakeholders' strategic workforce planning really needs  This episode is sponsored by Worklytics.   How productive is your organisation, really? Worklytics makes it clear - with privacy-first insights from everyday work data. See how meeting volume, manager effectiveness, collaboration health, and AI adoption are impacting your team’s focus, efficiency, and outcomes - so you can make smarter decisions, faster.  No surveys. No assumptions. Just clear insight into work. Right now, Worklytics is offering podcast listeners a free 30-day trial of their productivity analytics… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/digital-hr-leaders-with-david-green-244896/episodes/rethinking-strategic-workforce-planning-in-the-age-of-ai-and-skills-disruption/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/digital-hr-leaders-with-david-green-244896/rethinking-strategic-workforce-planning-in-the-age-of-ai-and-skills-disruption.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.