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The Future of Work and Change
Laurens Waling
Laurens Waling is a keynote speaker, moderator, and change expert. He connects AI, skills, and personal leadership to organizational change and demonstrates how to get people and work moving. With energy and interaction, he provides concrete points of reference to start making changes yourself.
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Dagvoorzitter,Facilitator,Keynote spreker,Moderator
Employability:
Dagvoorzitter,Facilitator,Keynote spreker,Moderator,
About Laurens Waling
Laurens Waling is a keynote speaker, moderator, and change expert who makes the future of work visible and manageable. He shows how organizations can get people and work moving in a time of AI, scarcity, and continuous change.
Laurens studied public administration and intervention science, combining his background in change management with over twenty years of experience in technology, organizational change, and entrepreneurship. He worked as a consultant on complex change processes and later founded Part-up, a pioneering platform for skills-based collaboration and job crafting. With this, he helped organizations to organize work differently and deploy talent more flexibly, beyond fixed roles and structures.
Currently, Laurens is Chief Evangelist at 8vance, a Dutch-German high-tech scale-up in the field of AI-driven skills-based matching and talent intelligence. From this practice, he works daily with organizations in healthcare, government, industry, education, and services on issues related to labor market scarcity, internal mobility, lateral entry, and development. He demonstrates why traditional role and CV thinking falls short and how skills, learning ability, and context create new opportunities for growth and movement.
What sets Laurens apart is that he always connects technology with behavior and leadership. His lectures are not only about what is changing, but especially about how to engage people. About personal leadership in change, mobilizing groups, and organizing work in a way that aligns with what people can and want to contribute. In his lectures, he combines content with interaction, often working with reflection questions or short exercises, and for more extensive processes, also with preparatory surveys among participants, break-outs, and a concise advisory report afterward.
Change does not begin with systems, but with inspired people who feel seen and start to move.
On stage, Laurens is energetic, sharp, and interactive. No abstract future stories, but recognizable situations, practical interventions, and concrete points of reference to start making changes yourself. His message is clear: the future of work requires not only new technology but especially different choices in how we collaborate, learn, and lead.
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Videos
HR Trendwebinar Rendement - Laurens Waling en Nathan de Groot
AI & Vaardigheden: De Toekomst van Werk Bouwen | Laurens Waling op ZP Europe 2025
Webinar HR Morgen | Skills-based organiseren met AI: zo begin je echt
Talkshow: Succesvol skills-based werven met AI | Laurens Waling (8vance), Randstad, Facilicom, Eneco
Skills-based werken met AI: voorbij het cv, op zoek naar écht talent
WWC25 - Van Functietitels naar Vaardighedensignalen: Hoe AI Talentmatching Opnieuw Uitvindt
Webinar: Hoe kun je instroom en doorstroom boosten met AI?
![How AI can empower candidates to master their skills w/ guest Laurens Waling (8vance) [Ep. 15]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BBhc5GP0dv4/sddefault.jpg)