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AI and Talent Agility: From Adoption to Advantage

23 Apr 2026
HR Tech Talks Theatre
Tech Talk

AI investment is accelerating. Productivity impact is uneven. The differentiator is not the technology. It is leadership.

As organizations embed AI into core workflows, a new leadership blueprint is emerging. Leaders must balance strategy and execution, manage paradox, and integrate human judgment with machine intelligence at scale.

In this session, Mercer introduces a practical framework for measuring AI talent agility across three dimensions: behavioral readiness, cognitive agility, and applied AI capability. Using validated assessment tools, we explore how to identify leaders and teams who will embrace AI, think critically in complex environments, and translate experimentation into measurable value.

Organizations that systematically assess and build these capabilities are turning AI adoption into sustained performance advantage. Those that do not risk stalled transformation.

Join Mercer to discover how assessment-driven insight can unlock responsible AI adoption and define the next era of leadership effectiveness.

Speakers
David Jones, Partner, Mercer Assessments - Mercer

Topic

AI Automation & Agentic Systems

Learning Objective 1:

Understand why AI investment alone does not guarantee productivity uplift and how the new leadership blueprint defines success in an AI-enabled enterprise.

Learning Objective 2:

Explore how assessing behavioral readiness, cognitive agility, and applied AI capability identifies leaders able to manage paradox and balance strategy with execution.

Learning Objective 3:

Examine how assessment-driven insight accelerates responsible AI adoption, strengthens leadership effectiveness, and builds sustainable competitive advantage at scale.