Does a multicultural workforce automatically create a competitive advantage?
As organisations become more multicultural and AI reshapes how work gets done, HR and business leaders are facing new questions about culture, leadership and the way people work together.
The RMIT – Deloitte HR Roundtable 2026 brings together senior HR and business leaders, Deloitte Human Capital experts and RMIT academics to challenge assumptions around the “multicultural advantage” and explore "cultural debt" – what can accumulate when organisational culture, systems and ways of working fail to keep pace with change.
Join the conversation to explore what organisations may need to keep, rethink or leave behind for a multicultural and AI-enabled workforce.
For HR leaders, building a diverse workforce is only part of the challenge.
The bigger question is whether leadership, culture and people practices are equipped to turn diversity into organisational value, particularly as AI becomes embedded in the way organisations recruit, collaborate, develop and make decisions.
This roundtable will explore:
Partner, Deloitte’s Global Future of Work Leader
Human Resources Director, Bosch Vietnam
Head of Management Department, The Business School, RMIT Vietnam
Senior Program Manager, Human Resource Management, The Business School, RMIT Vietnam
Challenge assumptions about the multicultural advantage and cultural debt
Hear diverse perspectives on multiculturality, cultural debt and AI
Test ideas against real organisational experiences and challenges
Surface emerging perspectives, tensions and questions for the future
Time |
Session |
|---|---|
| 9:00 – 9:30am |
Welcoming guests |
| 9:30 – 9:40am |
Opening Remarks |
| 9:40 – 10:00am |
Keynote address: The Multicultural advantage or Multicultural myth? - Nic Scoble-Williams – Partner, Deloitte’s Global Future of Work Leader |
| 10:00 – 10:45am |
Panel discussion: Testing the assumptions: Multiculturality, Cultural debt and AI |
| 10:45 – 11:00am |
Roundtable: Putting Cultural debt to the test |
| 11:00 – 11:25am |
Executive insights and collective reflection: Synthesise perspectives, contradictions and emerging principles |
| 11:25 – 11:30am |
Closing remarks |
The roundtable will contribute to an RMIT × Deloitte Executive Insights Report, synthesising key provocations, executive perspectives, practical organisational examples and emerging insights from the discussion.
The report will capture not only areas of agreement, but also contradictions, unresolved questions and different perspectives, creating a foundation for continued industry-academic dialogue on multiculturality, cultural debt, organisational transformation and the future of work.
