This week’s guide tackles the question many tech leaders are quietly asking right now: “How do I build an IT career that actually survives layoffs, Gen AI, and flatter orgs?”

Instead of another list of job titles, we walk through an 8-step playbook for putting your career on a deliberately layoff-resilient trajectory – from choosing your lane (IC vs leadership), to building a skill stack AI can’t easily replace, to designing rotations, sponsors, and networks that give you real options when the org chart shifts.

If you’re on the fence about stepping up – especially with our next cohort onboarding in a few days – this is a great piece to sanity-check where you are, where you’re heading, and whether the Future Leaders Course or the Digital MBA for Technology Leaders is the right next move. 

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In the US alone, companies have already announced over 1.1 million job cuts in 2025, yet AI is explicitly cited in only about 4–5% of those cuts. Most cuts are still driven by old-school reasons: cost, over-hiring, and restructuring.

At the same time, leadership development is booming: global leadership training is projected to more than double from around $90B today to over $230B by 2035.

In other words, companies aren’t done with leaders — they’re done with generic, replaceable ones. The guide we’re featuring this week is about designing your career so you’re not in that category.

Learn to Lead in a Flattening World

If you’re 2–7 years into your career and starting to carry leadership responsibilities (with or without the title), this is the course that helps you step up deliberately instead of winging it. Future Leaders Course gives you the essentials to run a team in today’s environment: 

• Clear communication with stakeholders
• Basic finance and commercial awareness
• Setting and tracking team metrics
• Leading people through change in an AI-shaped, “do more with less” world 

It’s CPD-accredited, fully online, and built for busy engineers and tech leads who want to become the person their organization trusts to lead the next chapter—not just ship the next sprint.