Frontline Talent of the Future

Empowering today's workforce for tomorrow's industries

Empowering industry leaders to stay competitive by creating a framework for best practices and fostering a community that prioritizes needs and challenges of industrial workforce.

This dynamic peer community will help industry partners achieve new levels of productivity and stability by putting people at the heart of the manufacturing and supply chain. By establishing a framework for evaluating best practices, we will identify solutions that enhance the attraction, skilling, and retention of frontline talent—a critical need as global manufacturing faces a talent shortage.

Our focus areas

The Frontline Talent of the Future examines solutions to enhance the attraction, skilling, and retention of frontline talent

Attract, Retain, and Train Talent for the Future of Manufacturing and Supply Chains

Over 70% of businesses identifying attracting and retaining talent as a primary barrier for business transformation. Addressing workforce challenges requires a fresh approach—one that goes beyond traditional strategies to embrace innovative and proven practices for attracting, retaining, upskilling, and reskilling industrial workers, ultimately enhancing both workforce stability and operational productivity.

Accelerate Human-Machine Collaboration for a Future-Ready Workforce

As per Future of Jobs report, about 40% of the core skillsets in manufacturing are changing in next 3 years and 1 in 2 people will need some sort of upskilling and training. It is essential to identify the changing skill sets, roles, tasks, and workflows that support effective and responsible human-machine collaboration, and to explore how organizations and governments can proactively prepare their workforce to thrive in increasingly automated and intelligent manufacturing and supply chain environments.

Our impact

Through research, experimentation and knowledge exchange, we aim to drive meaningful change.

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Exchange proven strategies and innovations across regions and industries

Sharing knowledge and insights about the best approaches to attract, retain, upskill and reskill frontline workforce as part of the Frontline Talent Champions community.

Enable factories with tools and insights on talent transformations

Developing and piloting talent strategies that enable organizations to unlock new level of productivity and stability

Elevating voice of frontline workers

Elevating voice of frontline workforce, showcasing human-centric industrial sites, upskilling and reskilling in action, and worker safety and wellbeing initiatives enabling workforce engagement

Our insights

Human Machine Collaboration in Industrial Operations: Activation Playbook

Report | June 2026

Empowering Frontlines: Retaining, Training and Upskilling Industrial Workforce

White Paper | September 2025

Putting Talent at the Centre: An Evolving Imperative for Manufacturing

White Paper | February 2025

Views from the Manufacturing Front Line: Workers’ Insights on How to Introduce New Technology

Report | January 2024

Learn more about the future of jobs and manufacturing

Join us in shaping the  future of talent and skills in advanced manufacturing