Laura Tinnelly

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ABOUT LAURA TINNELLY

I\'m a creative problem solver and fierce advocate for the humans doing the work — and right now, that means helping organisations figure out what work actually looks like in the age of AI.I sit on Cisco\'s Strategy & Innovation team within Talent Management, where I spend my time at the intersection of AI strategy, workforce transformation, and talent innovation. It\'s new, complex and fun. My background is a bit of a mixed bag — consultancies, creative agencies, enterprise HR — and that\'s deliberate. I\'ve always been drawn to the messy, ambiguous problems that don\'t fit neatly into an org chart. Here\'s what that looks like in practice:1. Future of Work StrategyI\'m actively building research fluency, scanning signals, and helping shape how Cisco thinks about AI\'s impact on work, workforce, and workers. Less crystal ball, more structured curiosity.2. Workforce Transformation & ChangeI\'m a Prosci-certified change practitioner, which means I care deeply about whether good ideas actually land. New ways of working only matter if people adopt them. That\'s the part that keeps me honest.3. Talent InnovationI help identify where talent practices need to evolve — not just incrementally, but fundamentally — and I bring a creative toolkit to doing that work differently.In terms of my style, I\'ve been told I\'m high-energy, straight-talking, overly enthusiastic, and easily amused. This may or may not be accurate.