Explore six emerging trends reshaping global attrition—from early-tenure drop-off and AI-driven retention to shifting work expectations and leadership risk. This recap from M1’s Virtual Series highlights what’s changing, why it matters, and how leading organizations are rethinking retention strategies in today’s evolving workforce.

Across industries, CHROs and talent leaders are rethinking leadership development as disruption accelerates and AI reshapes how work gets done. The article outlines three shifts driving this change and offers a practical lens on what development needs to look like to keep pace.

At the Breckenridge Summit, HR leaders explored how AI is reshaping leadership, performance, and work. As AI embeds into daily workflows, human capability is becoming more focused and differentiated, which is pushing HR to shift from a support function to a driver of enterprise transformation.

At the recent Basel meeting, 40 HR leaders moved beyond experimentation to examine how AI is reshaping the function. The discussion focused on operating model redesign, skills as infrastructure, and leadership under augmentation. The conclusion: HR’s role is not only to support transformation, but to help design it.

HR is no longer refining talent processes, it is redesigning the enterprise. Across global M1 meetings, leaders shared how skills-based planning, AI integration, data modernization, and culture transformation are repositioning HR at the center of enterprise strategy and performance.

Senior HR leadership expectations are changing quickly. An analysis of nearly 40 executive HR success profiles shows companies placing greater emphasis on change leadership, execution, and enterprise influence than on traditional functional expertise.