Keynote Talk
Leadership & AI
Still in Charge: The Human Mandate
Humans Decide. AI Complies.
AI doesn't take authority away from humans. You give it away — and most companies already have. Employees are using AI to draft client communications, filter employment candidates, and make recommendations that teams follow without question. Every one of those situations represents a decision. And nobody knows who's accountable.
About the Speaker
Maura Charles spent 25 years inside Fortune 500 companies — Time Inc., Bloomingdale's, Allergan, Cablevision, the New York Philharmonic — leading the teams that had to make technology transitions work without losing what made the organization human.
She's watched this pattern three times. AI is the fourth — and the fastest.
60 Minutes: 45+15 Q&A
The Only Question that Matters
This keynote gives leaders a framework for answering: what authority must humans never give away? A mandate to decide before the tools decide for you.
Spot the Displacement
How to identify where AI is already quietly displacing human judgment in your organization.
Identify Authority Transfer
Why the current wave of AI-related layoffs isn't just a workforce problem—it's risking a permanent transfer of knowledge and authority, and the window to reverse it is closing.
Develop Human+AI Leadership
What Human+AI leadership looks like as daily operational practice, and why it becomes a competitive moat.
AI tools are making "decisions" right now.
Who is accountable for those invisible decisions?