Alex Hagan
Melbourne | 24 July 2026

You can react to the future,
or you can create it.

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Future of Work Activator
Strategic workforce planning | Consulting
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Strategic workforce planning, environment scanning, workforce analytics, and masterclasses for organisations making long-range people decisions under uncertainty.
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The Future of Work
Keynote | 45-60 min
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When we think about the future of work, we think about what is already here. The real question is not what is happening; it is what is about to blindside us next.
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Emergence: The Art and Science of Creating the Future
Keynote | 45-60 min
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Complexity is not the problem, it is the opportunity. The difference between companies that suffer from complexity and the ones that thrive because of it.
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The AI Future of Work
Keynote | 45-60 min
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Practical strategies for leveraging AI before it leverages you. Focus on who is using AI well, who is being left behind, and how to keep up.
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Where's my hoverboard?
Keynote | 45-60 min
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We were promised flying cars, robot butlers, and Mars vacations. Instead we got self-checkout machines and TikTok dances.
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Octopuses Won't Replace You, But Someone Using Octopuses Will
While you're "waiting to see how it plays out," your competitors are already installing tanks. A field guide to the Octopus Economy.
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While you're "waiting to see how it plays out," your competitors are already installing tanks. A field guide to the Octopus Economy.
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Our Lemon Juice Moments: The Cost of Certainty in a Complex World
We all carry hidden blind spots - our own ‘lemon juice moments’ where confidence outpaces competence. This article explores why certainty is so seductive, how the Dunning–Kruger effect shows up in everyday life, and why embracing curiosity over correctness leads to wiser decisions in a complex world.
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We all carry hidden blind spots - our own ‘lemon juice moments’ where confidence outpaces competence. This article explores why certainty is so seductive, how the Dunning–Kruger effect shows up in everyday life, and why embracing curiosity over correctness leads to wiser decisions in a complex world.
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Strategy Ages in Dog Years
Wrote a five-year strategy in 2022? By now, it’s as spry as a middle-aged labrador. Stop updating nostalgia - write strategy for the wild, AI-shaped world we’re actually hurtling toward.
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Wrote a five-year strategy in 2022? By now, it’s as spry as a middle-aged labrador. Stop updating nostalgia - write strategy for the wild, AI-shaped world we’re actually hurtling toward.
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Alex Hagan
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Twenty years helping people act wisely when the ground is moving. Two books. One newsletter. A growing collection of stages, boardrooms, and conversations that change things.

That includes strategic workforce planning through Future of Work Activator, the evolved practice formerly known as Kienco.

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