Using AI Tools in Generative Workforce Planning

Learn how AI tools are revolutionizing workforce planning in this interactive online event.

Using AI Tools in Generative Workforce Planning

In our previous webcast, Strategic Workforce Planning Is Broken, we examined why Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP), as it has traditionally been practiced, is no longer fit for today’s operating environment. Long planning cycles, HR-led handoffs, and static forecasts are breaking down under the combined weight of AI acceleration, external volatility, and compressed decision timelines.

That session reframed workforce planning as a leadership decision discipline, not a planning exercise — one that must operate in real time, alongside capital allocation, operating strategy, and risk management.

This next webcast moves the conversation forward.

Ironically, one of the forces disrupting traditional SWP may also help unlock a new approach. Off-the-shelf AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude are already capable of performing many of the most time-consuming elements of workforce analysis — from current-state assessment to scenario generation — at speeds and scales that were previously impossible.

The question is no longer whether AI can be used in workforce planning, but how leaders should use it — and what it changes about the work that still requires human judgment.

From Strategic Workforce Planning to Generative Workforce Planning

This webcast explores how AI tools can be applied practically and responsibly to support faster, more adaptive workforce decision-making. We will examine five core SWP tasks that can be significantly accelerated — and often improved — through the thoughtful use of AI prompts and models.

But speed is only the starting point.

The deeper question we’ll address is this: What should leaders do with the time and capacity that AI creates? Where does human judgment become more important, not less? And how can organizations shift from producing plans to rehearsing decisions under uncertainty?

What This Webcast Will Cover

• Where AI tools already outperform traditional SWP methods
• Five workforce planning tasks that can be accelerated with generative AI
• How AI changes scenario planning from prediction to decision rehearsal
• The new role of leaders, HR, and finance in an AI-enabled workforce model
• What cannot be delegated to AI — and why human judgment becomes more critical

Who Should Attend

This session is designed for leaders who are actively navigating workforce disruption, including:

• Operating and business leaders responsible for execution
• HR, Talent, and Workforce leaders supporting real-time decisions
• Finance leaders involved in workforce investment and trade-offs
• Strategy, transformation, and enterprise planning leaders

Why Attend

Organizations are already using AI — often informally and inconsistently — to support workforce thinking. Without a shared logic, clear guardrails, or leadership alignment, the risk is simply accelerating flawed assumptions.

This webcast offers a grounded, practical look at how AI can support generative workforce planning — and how leaders can reclaim time and attention for the decisions that truly matter.

Our Presenter

Bill Craib is on our IOSM Operating Committee, and is also an original architect of the Strategic Workforce Planning Certification from the Human Capital Institute (HCI).

Over twenty years at HCI, Bill has been a founding executive, faculty member, and frequent public speaker on strategic human capital and helped thousands of HR leaders and business partners connect the dots between talent strategies and business outcomes.