Overview
- Delivering her first public speech since her 2024 cancer diagnosis, the Princess of Wales opened the Future Workforce Summit at Salesforce Tower, bringing together about 80 business leaders.
- She called on employers to value “time and tenderness” alongside profit, arguing that profitability and positive social impact should not be incompatible.
- Her Royal Foundation Business Taskforce says it aims to reach more than one million babies and young children by 2026, with initiatives to date reported to have reached roughly half a million.
- The summit showcased a Deloitte-backed report, The Human Advantage, and featured sessions led by Mishal Husain with speakers including Sir Gareth Southgate, Robert Waldinger, Marc Brackett and Philippa Perry.
- Kensington Palace released the full speech on the Prince and Princess of Wales’s YouTube channel, and the princess further signaled her return to duties by attending the Royal Variety Performance on Nov. 19.