Join Scott Budding at Calabrio, Kim Baker at L&Q, Leighann Radley at Trainline and Phil Anderson at The Forum for a lively, interactive discussion on;

 - ​​​​​​Top challenges with planning this year and expectations for 2024.
 - Has remote working caused a drop in productivity?
 - Thoughtful approaches to managing and accepting attrition.
 - Future possibilities with AI – what role does it play in planning and forecasting?

In this final session of the 2025 Virtual Best Practice Showcase, we’ll be discussing this year’s Rising Stars – ​​​​​​talented professionals who’ve turned being new into a superpower.

Through these stories we’ll explore how curiosity, rapid learning, and fresh perspective can drive innovation, challenge the status quo, and spark lasting change. From automating processes to reshaping reporting and improving onboarding, these Rising Stars show that bold questions and small actions can create big impact.

This session is a celebration of what happens when new voices lead the way.

Frontline managers have never had more performance data, and never had less time to act on it. Signals are scattered across QA, WFM, LMS, CRM, and a growing stack of dashboards. Now AI agents are joining the workforce as a new layer to oversee, and the gap between performance insight and performance change is widening fast.

This is the action gap. Closing it is the defining challenge facing frontline leaders this year.

Join Ian Chappell, Director of Consulting, EMEA at Centrical, for a practical follow-up to The Forum's Best Practice Showcase. Ian opens with a look at why most platforms are widening the gap rather than closing it, then previews three Centrical capabilities built for the manager's job in a hybrid human-AI workforce.