The Performance Crisis:What is driving the decline & how leaders can reverse it

In the past five years, an astonishing £2.2 trillion in GDP has been lost to a silent performance crisis across the workforce. As AI capabilities accelerate, human performance is quietly slipping. AI isn’t replacing human excellence—it’s raising the bar for it. To keep pace, organisations must equip people with purpose, agency, and the agility to adapt in real time. The crisis is here. So too is the opportunity.