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How AI is impacting people practices in consulting: Consulting people report 2026

Wednesday 25 February 2026

12pm – 1pm, online

Online

Deri Hughes, Founder of Honeycomb Skills Training, and Caroline Boston, Managing Director of New Minds, have collaborated to research how consulting firms will evolve their teams, skills, and people models in 2026. Their findings, based on interviews with senior leaders from across the sector, including Big 4, large challenger and boutique consulting firms, will reveal how AI is impacting the traditional ‘learning on the job’ model and what skills consultants will actually need for future success.

Our speakers

Caroline Boston

Caroline is the Managing Director of New Minds, a talent strategy and recruitment solutions consultancy that provides integrated resourcing and talent solutions for growing management consultancies. New Minds works with its clients as an extension of their brand to support them throughout the employee lifecycle. Caroline has over 20 years’ experience as a recruitment, resourcing and talent leader with deep expertise in the management consultancy sector.

Deri Hughes

Deri is the Founder and Managing Director of Honeycomb Consulting Skills Training where he helps consulting team leaders develop more capable teams. Deri spent many years at top strategy consulting firm Bain & Company and was also CFOO of Credo Business Consulting where he built the operations team from scratch. Following Credo's sale to Teneo in 2017 he left to set-up Honeycomb. He and his team of expert consultants have helped the leaders of 30+ boutique consulting firms to build more capable teams through live consulting skills training, consulting skills acceleration systems, and outsourced L&D management.

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