2026 will be a crucial inflexion point for businesses. The data are striking—the proportion of employees using AI in their role in the U.S. doubled between 2023 and 2025. Across the Atlantic, 30% of EU workers are already using AI in their jobs.

And according to Gartner, by 2026 more than 100 million workers will collaborate with “robo-colleagues.”

The question for the coming year, then, is no longer whether AI will transform your organisation, it’s whether your leadership team will guide that transformation thoughtfully or let it happen haphazardly, tool by tool and team by team.

I have spent much of the past year working with my research team and industry partners to think through the most pressing challenges organisations face as they implement AI at scale.

Drawing on this work, I have identified seven key priorities for leaders preparing for 2026. These aren’t isolated tactics but interconnected imperatives that, taken together, prtovide a road map for building resilient, adaptive, and human-centred organisations in the age of AI. Click here to read the full text article