Jimmy Ong Cheng Keat is Managing Partner of Nucleus Advisory and a Chartered MCIPD, with more than 25 years of experience in talent, leadership, learning and workforce transformation. He advises boards, CEOs and senior leaders across Southeast Asia on the Future of Work, AI readiness, leadership succession and skills-based workforce decisions.

His work sits at the intersection of people, skills, work and intelligence. Combining strategic advisory with AI-powered Talent Intelligence and behavioural science, Jimmy helps organisations understand how automation will reshape roles, assess whether their people are ready to work alongside AI, and translate workforce insight into business action.

He has worked with financial institutions, corporations, public-sector bodies and universities. A strong advocate for human-centred transformation, Jimmy’s work focuses not simply on whether AI will replace jobs, but on how AI is redesigning work and how organisations must prepare their people and operating models for what comes next.