Talent shortages are affecting organisations across every sector. But is the real problem simply a shortage of people? Or could your organisation be overlooking skills and potential already within its workforce?

This opening conversation explores what that question means for the strategy and future competitiveness of your organisation. Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen places it within the wider productivity challenge facing the Netherlands and asks whether CHROs are taking sufficient ownership of workforce transformation at board level.

Hans Cremer, National Programme Manager for the Integral Skills Passport, shows what becomes possible when organisations look beyond qualifications and job titles, while also confronting the impact on established job architectures, career paths and reward structures. Prof. Dr Annet de Lange adds the essential human perspective: even with better insight and new systems, people and organisations do not automatically change.

Together, they examine what keeps organisations from moving, what leaders must create for change to happen and which strategic decisions CHROs can no longer afford to postpone.