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The Quarterly Breakthrough Webinar: New Models for Training Professionals in an AI World

Join our free, expert-led webinar on New Models for Training Professionals in an AI World: Lessons from KPMG’s Global AI Playbook.
 

In this 30-minute webinar, Niale Cleobury, KPMG’s Global AI Workforce Lead, shares how AI is already reshaping the way professional services firms train, deploy and develop their people. Drawing on KPMG’s global experience implementing AI across their organisation, he makes a compelling case that the real ROI from AI comes not from tools alone, but from fundamentally redesigning work, learning and careers around those tools.


As the traditional apprenticeship model breaks down with AI now handling much of the work juniors once relied on to build skills professional services firms face an urgent question: how do we develop the next generation of talent? Cleobury reveals how KPMG is answering this through AI-powered learning assistants, agent factories, and a radical shift from ‘human resources’ to ‘total workforce management.’
 

This webinar will cover:

  • AI Has Turned Training Into an Urgent Issue: Why the traditional ‘learn by doing low-level work’ apprenticeship model is already breaking down, and what firms must do to replace it as AI takes over foundational tasks
  • Learning Must Happen in the Flow of Work: How KPMG’s AI-powered learning assistant, Spark, enables continuous, just-in-time learning that outperforms static training programmes and rapidly lifts confidence and capability across all levels
  • AI Accelerates Human Judgement, Not Replaces It: How removing low-value background work pushes professionals into strategic, client-facing roles much sooner than the traditional apprenticeship model ever could
  • Real Value Requires Redesigning Jobs, Not Just Deploying Tools: Why organisations only see ROI when they actively reshape roles, redeploy freed-up capacity, and invest heavily in change management and learning not just technology
  • From HR to Total Workforce Management: As firms manage a blended workforce of humans and AI agents, discover how traditional HR departments are evolving to oversee ‘total workforce management’ a profound shift in how work, capability and performance are designed and governed
  • Making AI Initiatives Stick: Practical strategies for moving beyond pilots to measurable impact, including how to champion early adopters, celebrate success stories, and drive organisation-wide adoption

     

Date: Wednesday, 18th February 2026

Time: On-demand access from 12pm (AEDT - Sydney time) 

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Meet your webinar presenters

Niale Cleobury, Global AI Workforce Lead, KPMG

Niale Cleobury leads KPMG’s global AI Workforce proposition, helping organisations worldwide reimagine how they deliver value through the strategic integration of AI and human talent. Since launching this initiative 18 months ago, he has been at the forefront of addressing one of professional services’ most pressing challenges: how to reshape people, processes and capability to realise genuine value from AI investments.
At KPMG, Niale oversees initiatives including the firm’s 'agent factories', building hundreds of AI agents to augment advisory services and Spark, an AI-powered learning assistant providing personalised, in-the-flow-of-work learning to employees worldwide. His expertise focuses on workforce redesign, total workforce management and demonstrating that successful AI implementation requires not just technological investment, but fundamental reimagination of roles, skills pathways and how work gets done.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Nick Abrahams, Futurist & Global Leader Digital Transformation, Lawyer

Nick is a LinkedIn Top Voice in Technology. He has been a partner at international law firm Norton Rose Fulbright for over twenty years, spending the last seven years in global technology and innovation leadership roles. His team won the Technology Law Firm of the Year award. Nick co-created the world’s first AI-enabled privacy chatbot and won the Financial Times newspaper’s Asia Innovator or the Year Award. He is a member of the NSW Law Society AI Taskforce and has been a judge on the AMCHAM Alliance AI Awards and the Women in AI Awards. He was an advisor to Berkerley Law Executive Education (USA) on their GenAI for Lawyers course.  He is the Co-founder of Lawpath, an online legal solution which has served over 400,000 customers, and was one of the first companies globally to roll out a legal GenAI app. He is the author of the Amazon best selling books Big Data, Big Responsibilities and Digital Disruption in Australia.

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