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Let's get something straight, we should not have to choose between Progress or People!

Let's get something straight, we should not have to choose between Progress or People! Over the last few weeks we have been talking about a whole host of aspects surrounding Finance, Accounting and Procurement, including jobs, skills, productivity, trust, junior careers, leadership, accountability and AI.

14 October 2026 · 1 min read · Leanne Douglas

Over the last few weeks I have been talking about a whole host of aspects surrounding Finance, Accounting and Procurement, including jobs, skills, productivity, trust, junior careers, leadership, accountability and AI.

Human Led Finance wasn't created because we believe AI should slow down, It was created because people need to accelerate with it. The World Economic Forum estimates that structural labour-market change could create 170 million roles while displacing 92 million by 2030.

World Economic Forum is already finding some of the organisations making greatest use of AI are growing headcount and wages faster, not slower.

PwC And ACCA finds finance professionals overwhelmingly believe they can develop AI skills even while half remain concerned about what AI means for their jobs.

Naturally none of us knows precisely where this ends, but what we do know, is that employers have choices about how we get there! We believe the strongest organisations of the AI era will be those that develop their people as deliberately as they develop their technology.

Thats what Human Led Finance stands for and were just getting started.

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