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Published: Sept 13, 2025 Language: English ISBN: 9781257767816 Category: Business & Economics Copyright: All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License Contributors: By (author) Elijah Ezendu
Book Description
The workplace has shifted from location of work to the engine of civilization: The crucible where technology, humanity, and global systems collide. In Future Realities of Workplace, Dr. Elijah Ezendu delivers a groundbreaking exploration of how emerging forces of AI, robotics, bionics, cultural values, mobility, regulation, ethics and sustainability will redefine how we work, live, and thrive.
Drawing on decades of foresight, global case studies, and bold scenarios, this book maps the drivers of transformation and the impacts on the world system. It shows how the future of workplace will determine the following.
- The global economy and competitiveness of nations.
- The recalibration of education into lifelong learning ecosystems.
- The relevance of talent in a world of automation and augmentation.
- The optimization of industries across all sectors.
- Sustainability of the planet, as workplaces become frontline actors in net-zero and wellbeing economies.
With visionary clarity, Dr. Elijah Ezendu blends analytical depth with future scenarios and vivid case studies. Each chapter moves beyond theory, offering a rich narrative of how humans, machines, and hybrid beings will share, and sometimes contest the future workplace: A portending potpourri of asymmetry between non-human workforce integration and equitable human advancement. If a responsive global governance stoke the fire of order, fittingly structured regulation shall definitely ensure dominance and continuity of human control; conversely, slow or apathetic governance approach in the face of rapid technological innovation will be an invitation to catastrophe.
At its heart, Future Realities of Workplace is a blueprint for leaders, professionals, policymakers, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and workers who want to design the future, instead of walking blindly into its pitfalls. It calls for workplaces built on adaptability, fairness, innovation, sustainability and human-centred purpose.
The message is clear: The workplace is not a side stage of history. It is the determinant of economic prosperity, human dignity, and planetary survival. To shape the workplace is to shape the future of civilization.
Profile of Dr Elijah Ezendu
Dr Elijah Ezendu is a Certified Management Consultant. He had functioned as Member of Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy at International Union for Conservation of Nature, Switzerland; Chairman Advisory Board, Igbo Filmmakers Forum; Chairman of Board, Motus Health Initiative; Chairman of Board, Charisma Broadcast Film Academy; Group Chief Operating Officer, Idova Group; CEO, Rubiini (UAE); Special Advisor, Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria; Director, MMNA Investments; Chairman (CMC Certification), Chairman (Board of Fellows), Lead Assessor & Governing Council Member, Institute of Management Consultants, Nigeria; Lead Consultant/ Partner, JK Michaels; Turnaround Project Director, Consolidated Business Holdings Limited; Chief Operating Officer, Rohan Group; Executive Director (Various Roles), Fortuna, Gambia & Malta; Vice Chairman, Refined Shipping; Director of Programmes & Governing Council Member, Institute of Business Development, Nigeria; Member of TDD Committee, International Association of Software Architects, USA; Board Member, Technology Strategy Think Tank; Member of Strategic Planning and Implementation Committee, Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria; Member of Marketing Committee, International Council of Management Consulting Institutes; Adjunct Faculty (MBA Programme), Regent Business School, South Africa; Adjunct Faculty (MBA Programme), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology; Editor-in-Chief, Cost Management Journal; Member of National Executive Council, Institute of Internal Auditors of Nigeria; Developer of Specialist Masters Degree Programme in Business Development, Jones International University, USA; He holds Doctoral Degree in Management, Master of Business Administration and Fellow of Professional Institutes in North America, UK & Nigeria. He had been a Music Producer and Member of Guild of Soundtrack Producers of Nigeria, as a Musical Artiste contributing to film development in Nollywood. He had functioned as Judge in various international awards. He's an author and extensively featured speaker, who had delivered keynote speeches, technical papers, summit disquisitions and diverse training listings across countries. He also works as Servant of Holy Spirit.
Dr Elijah Ezendu
Book Review
Societal evolution has long suffered from lack of planning. We learn from our mistakes, often at great cost. But this practice should and can be minimized. A shining example of planning to avoid foreseen pitfalls is the original United States of America Constitution. Another is Dr. Elijah Ezendu’s powerful and comprehensive Future Realities of Workplace. In this work Dr. Ezendu examines how the explosion of technology can shape the workplace for good or ill. With Technology now advancing at an exponentially increasing rate, he explores policies that could lead to a utopian society or a dystopian one, and explains how to steer the best possible path. This guide to future success should be immediately read by leaders in government, business, education, military and all other facets of society. To ignore it invites great peril.
William Karsell
Interim Chair, Climate Stabilization Council
Chair, US Technical Advisory Group to ISO on Life Cycle Assessment