Across industries, AI agents are moving from experimentation to everyday execution across recruiting, coaching, learning, and HR operations. The article explores how this shift is redefining the role of the people function and outlines the operating model changes organizations need to make to combine human judgment with agent-enabled execution.

Why do so many performance systems still fail to drive better talent decisions? In this candid discussion, leading CHROs unpack what’s actually working from sharper differentiation and behavior-based rewards to simplified calibration and AI-enabled decision support.

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.