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See how AI is already improving how people lead and work (and where it shows promise). The Ai institute goal was to uncover practical ways that AI can make your work better, by amplifying the good parts and dampening the bad. 

Insights were collected from more than 100 leaders, technologists, and researchers across business, healthcare, government, and academia— from live interviews with 35 of them...

And what they tell us about the next era of global change...

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Explore what 300,000 voices have to say across seven chapters:

• What we value

• How we feel

• How we invest

• How we win the next generation of consumers

• How we work

• How we embrace AI

• How we inspire and lead

Rachael Hanley-Browne joins, Simone Sweeney on the AC podcast exploring the realities of leadership, and how you become a better leader: What is the 'secret recipe?’ Especially for those who may be considered atypical leaders, for example, who are not charismatic extroverts, are outside of large corporates in SMEs or who are individual contributors. Rachael focuses on leadership for founders and entrepreneurs as well as deep subject matter experts. They discuss the role of coaching and mentoring in leadership development and include many practical tips for coaches and leaders themselves.

Leading through uncertainty in the age of AI

It’s often said that successful leaders need both a microscope and a telescope to help them identify near-term threats while spotting long-term opportunities. This tension across time horizons is a recurring theme in PwC’s 29th Global CEO Survey, based on responses from 4,454 chief executives across 95 countries and territories...

"Control or empowerment? Stability or agility? Automation or augmentation? Today’s leaders are facing complex choices across work, workforce, and organizational culture. But they don’t have to be either/or choices. This year’s report aims to help leaders find traction in the tensions—and the right balance to support both business and human outcomes."

Rachael Hanley-Browne talks about team coaching and working at the edge of diversity and inclusion.

Managers need to stop thinking of teams as static groups of individuals who have ample time to practice interacting successfully and efficiently, says Amy Edmondson in her new book, Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy.

The essential talk-it for getting good at human collaboration. 

noodle™ is a curated library of over 85 insightful noodles; 5-minute power-packed animations of proven psychological & behavioural concepts, frameworks, tools & techniques.  ​​Designed with people professionals & leaders in mind, it's also a flexible learning platform and a genius set of flashcards

As AI and data-driven technologies transform economies, the digital skills gap is widening faster than education and workforce systems can respond. 

This second instalment of the New Economy Skills series, developed in collaboration with Cognizant, analyses global supply and demand trends across AI, data and foundational digital skills, revealing rising employer expectations, uneven regional preparedness and accelerating wage premiums for advanced capabilities...

After two years of rapid AI acceleration, global executives enter 2026 with unmistakable confidence. But beneath the optimism, the data reveals a more complex reality: a widening series of gaps standing in the way of scale and value.

Gaps in employee sentiment, adoption patterns, and the infrastructure cracks, quietly determine if AI will deliver returns. The story of 2026 is not about whether organizations are adopting AI—they are. It’s about whether they can turn early impact into lasting value. Our data shows which gaps must be closed to get there...

From a crisis of grievance to a crisis of insularity.

The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals a world retreating towards insularity. As economic anxiety, geopolitical tension, and technological disruption intensify, people are narrowing their world to smaller, familiar circles that reflect their views, and this hinders economic and societal progress.

Read the 2026 report to understand a path forward to restoring trust and rebuilding connection and collaboration across society.

Rachael contributes to a Webinar on Complexity. A key challenge leaders and teams face nowadays is how to adapt seamlessly to their constantly changing internal and external environment and how to cope with the enormous complexity that comes with it. (See 'Complexity Management Through the Systemic Team Coaching Lens')

A state-of-the-art reference book detailing what makes team coaching effective, with a focus on being able to work at a relational level within the here and now, about what is going on in the present in the team and between the team and the coach; includes a chapter by Rachael Hanley-Browne and a contribution to the epilogue.

All coaching and business relationships have an ending. Here we explore the reflections of experienced team coaches at this key stage of the client relationship.  This is where coaches consider the choices they have made, how they responded to the client, their relationship to the wider organisation and the other key stakeholders.  By seeking to explore how seasoned coaches interpret their experiences, we gain a window into how they have developed a mastery of their craft

This user-friendly book draws on the concept developed by Professor Peter Hawkins, AoEC Honorary President, and Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, focusing on his famous ‘Five Disciplines’ model for high-performing teams, and provides insights and case studies for coaching a team for each discipline.