Rezilien’s Live Debate: Is Human Adaptability Nearing Its Limit or Are We Only Just Scratching the Surface?

<p>In the first episode of the Rezilien × Favourite Positions live debate series, Lily Kyriacou and Alex Young bring together leaders working across AI, transformation, people and organisational change to explore a question sitting at the centre of modern work:</p><p><strong>Is human adaptability nearing its limit, or are organisations failing to create the conditions in which it can thrive?</strong></p><p>As change continues to accelerate through AI adoption, restructures, new ways of working and rising performance pressure, many organisations are still seeing execution strain, burnout, confusion and misalignment. So what is actually going wrong?</p><p>This live debate explores whether the real issue is human resistance, or whether many organisations are still trying to manage modern change with outdated structures, weak communication, poor change discipline and rigid ideas of what work should look like.</p><p>Joined by David Fearne, Rebecca Tovey and Fintan Canavan, Lily and Alex unpack what happens when transformation becomes constant rather than occasional, and why adaptability may be less about asking more of people and more about redesigning work, leadership and accountability around the reality of perpetual change.</p><p>A few of the strongest ideas from the conversation include the importance of a growth-first mindset, the need to make change everyone’s accountability, the risk of treating AI like a simple software rollout and the idea that organisations may be reaching the limits of managing change in the same way they always have.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Guests</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-fearne-663b4222/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">David Fearne</a> - Vice President of AI at NTT DATA</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-becs-tovey-839b8b138/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Rebecca Tovey</a> - Group Director, People, Transformation and Change at Amdaris</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/fintancanavan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Fintan Canavan</a> - Associate Director at Protiviti UK</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Hosts</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilykyriacou/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Lily Kyriacou</a> - Founder of Rezilien</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-young-74431a135/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Alex Young</a> - Host of Favourite Positions</p><p><br></p><p><strong>About the series</strong