Exploring Insights from the Gartner’s Futures Lab with Brent Cassell

Navigating new levels of change, CHROs can find it difficult to
determine which global and long-term trends matter for their
talent and business strategies. Brent Cassell, VP in Advisory at
Gartner and member of Gartner’s Futures Lab, joins the Talent
Angle Podcast to offer a framework to sense and respond to the
macro trends CHROs need to be paying attention to, today.


Brent Cassell is a vice president of advisory in Gartner’s HR
practice, and he has spent the past 19 years in Gartner’s HR and
CIO practices. His job is to help clients find the research they
need, to help them understand that research, and to coach them
through the implementation of those best practices in their own
organizations. Brent is the contributing editor of the HR Leaders
Monthly Journal. In 2022, he won Gartner’s award for Outstanding
Thought Leadership for his work on Redesigning Work for the
Hybrid World.


Peter Aykens is the chief of research for Gartner’s HR practice.
Aykens is responsible for building and leading research teams
within the practice to address clients’ key initiatives. Before
his current role, he spent over 25 years at Gartner leading
research teams focused on banking and financial services
strategy, producing numerous studies that addressed business
strategy, channels, marketing, customer experience and product
challenges. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science
from St. Olaf College, a master’s degree in international
politics from Aberystwyth University (formerly known as the
University College of Wales, Aberystwyth), and a master’s degree
and a doctorate in political science from Brown University.