DSEI 2025

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Attracting and retaining talent

11 Sep 2025
Aerospace Forum
Maintaining advantage: Workforce activation and talent acquisition
  • The Military Workforce Challenge & the Armed Forces Recruiting Programme
  • Defence People Strategy
  • Air TLB Direction & Initiatives
  • Reduction of outflow:
    • People feel valued and a far greater number of talented young people feel engaged, inspired and attracted to service in the RAF
    • Optimise inflow with short, medium and long term plans
    • 12 Lines of Effort
  • Senior Leaders must understand and act on the depth of challenge we face
  • Culture and behaviours and their effect of recruitment & retention
  • Management of risk in achieving a balanced workforce

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Chairperson
Mr Arun Dawson, PhD Candidate - King's College London
Speakers
Air Vice-Marshal Simon Edwards, Director of People - Royal Air Force
Sally Garcia, Principal Consultant - PA Consulting
Julia Balm, Research Associate - Freeman Air and Space Institute, King's College London

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