This keynote explores the human qualities becoming more valuable — not less — in an AI-driven world, and how organizations can intentionally strengthen them before the gap widens.

How Smart Leaders Unknowingly Undermine Trust, Communication, and Influence Under Pressure

Real leadership begins the moment you stop managing from the sidelines. ——— There is comfort on the sidelines. From there, you’re safe. You can observe. You can comment. You can see what should have happened without carrying the outcome. I call these folks the “You-Missed-a-Spot-People,” judging and pontificating about the ones on their proverbial hands and knees scrubbing the floor. And that comfort makes sense. But it comes at a cost. As President Theodore Roosevelt famousl