1. Future Work - Delivering Through Diversity
Peter Cosgrove 21st January 2015

2. SKILL SHORTAGES
MILLENNIALS
FUTURE BRAND
FUTURE WORKPLACE

3. Ref: Denis Pennell
Not only are we aging,
there workforce will
live longer – a person
in Ireland or the UK
born today has a 50%
chance of living to 100

4. “There will be a global shortfall
of 16 – 18 million college
educated workers by 2020”

5. Women taking over the world

6. But not now…
LAND
CAPITAL
RAW MATERIALS
Companies used to be powerful only if they had…

8. People drive business, revenue and
innovation – why would not choose
from 100% of the population?

9. SKILL SHORTAGES
MILLENNIALS
FUTURE BRAND
FUTURE WORKPLACE

10. Millennials

11. 75% of the workforce
will be a millennial by
2025 (that is someone
born between 1980
and 2000)
Millennials

12. 76% engagement in diverse
companies
vs
24% in weak diversity climate
Millennials want
engagement, better
technology and
importantly a diverse
workforce

13. Millennials
Millennials want
collaborative
workforces -Women on
boards will help with
less Groupthink, fresh
perspectives and
better understanding

14. More technology
platforms are in place
to aid a collaborative
workforce

15. Millennials are the future, they are
collaborative and will demand a
diverse workforce

16. SKILL SHORTAGES
MILLENNIALS
FUTURE BRAND
FUTURE WORKPLACE

17. ADVERTS RECOMMENDATIONS
15% 76% Your brand is driven by
what your people say
about you – much of
that is online, women
share 40% more online

18. Women own 85% of all
consumer purchasing
decisions

19. Millennials
brend
Millennials
Your leader will be
expected to share the
views of his
organisation – not the
other way around

21. Your brand is your people, what
they say about you and share about
online is crucial, women share more
and own more of the spending

22. SKILL SHORTAGES
MILLENNIALS
FUTURE BRAND
FUTURE WORKPLACE

25. 47% home-working
80 million real estate
savings
Revenue increase
of 185%
Huge focus of
productivity over
presenteeism in the
future workplace

26. Khadijah Niazi (child
genius)– access to
online education tools
such as MOOCS will
open up education to
millions

27. There will be less restrictions and
more freedom about where we
work – it will be much more about
what we do

28. CHALLENGES &
POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

30. Anecdotally, women
less focused on
networking than men,
it needs to be sold as a
way to tap int the
information of others

33. In 2011 Scientists turned to
gamification as a last ditch
effort to solve the structure
of the protein that causes
AIDS in rhesus monkeys.
Within ten days FoldIt
players were able to solve a
puzzle that had frustrated
researchers for ten years

34. Thank You
Name: Peter Cosgrove
Email: peter.cosgrove@cpl.ie
Twitter: @petercosgrove