Keynotes on the human side of AI transformation
AI can extend human brilliance, or it can accelerate the cracks in your human system.
I help senior leaders redesign the human systems around AI so transformation sticks. On stage I bring 20 years leading transformation inside Airbus, 190+ podcast conversations with leaders and researchers, and a way of getting a room to talk about what it usually avoids. Interactive, practical and energising. In English or French, in person or online.
For leaders putting AI into the organisation and looking to deploy the human side of adoption at the same time
Senior leaders and HR, OD and change teams who are deploying AI and want the human side designed deliberately, not left to chance. Leadership offsites, people and HR conferences, transformation kick-offs, internal events, executive programme or simply team days, each keynote is tailored to your audience and context, with practical approaches people can use to apply what they’ve learnt.
Six keynotes that make the Real System visible
Every talk starts from the same idea: new tools, new structures and new strategies change little while the Real System, the human connection, the inclusive environment and adaptive leadership that actually drive decisions and performance, is left untouched. Each keynote shows that system and what leaders can redesign. Tailored to your audience, in English or French.
The Human Edge : AI augmented leadership
Every organisation is putting AI in. Few are redesigning how people decide, collaborate and lead around it. This keynote shows what stays distinctly human as AI takes on more of the work, and what senior leaders can redesign now so AI augments judgement, trust and performance instead of eroding them.
- Why the problem is rarely your teams, and how to see the human system they work in.
- The five conditions of a healthy, AI-ready human system: Regenerative, Augmented, Distributed, Adaptive, Embodied.
- Three decisions a leadership team can take this quarter so AI augments people rather than replaces their judgement.
Smarter Together
Collective intelligence is not a nice-to-have. It is how organisations make better decisions, faster than any individual or any algorithm can alone. This keynote looks at what makes a group genuinely smarter than its members, and what quietly makes it less so.
- The invisible patterns that decide who speaks, who is heard and who decides.
- How to design meetings and decisions so dissent, data and different perspectives actually get used.
- Practical ways to pair human collective intelligence with AI without losing either.
The Belonging Deficit
Hybrid work, constant change and AI are stretching the connection between people and their organisations. When belonging drops, so do candour, retention, performance and innovation. This keynote names the deficit most leadership teams cannot see on a dashboard, and what to do about it.
- How belonging shows up in the numbers: engagement, retention and speed of decisions.
- Why inclusion is a condition for high performance and innovation, not a programme that sits in HR beside the business.
- Small, deliberate practices that rebuild human connection in teams, in person and on screen.
Change That Sticks
New tools, new structures, new strategies, and the Real System left untouched: that is why most transformation fades. Drawing on over 20 years leading transformation, this keynote shows what makes change hold: the decisions, conversations, patterns and habits underneath it.
- The difference between leading individual people and leading the system they work in.
- Why a one-off workshop moves a conversation but rarely a culture, and what does move a culture.
- Where to start: the habits a senior team can change in 90 days.
Innovating With People
Innovation is a human system before it is a process or a platform. It depends on psychological safety, on people daring to say the unfinished idea, and on leaders who make it safe to be wrong early. This keynote connects courage, inclusion and innovation in practice.
- What psychological safety actually needs from leaders, beyond asking people to speak up.
- How to spot the assumptions your team is acting on, and say what is hard to say.
- Ways to involve the people who do the work day to day in designing what needs to change.
Human infrastructure : cultures of trust & care
Behind every strategy sits an emotional infrastructure: the trust, care and purpose that decide whether people bring their best thinking or protect themselves. This keynote makes that infrastructure visible and shows how leaders build it on purpose, especially as organisations get bigger, faster and more complex.
- Care as the currency of social systems: what it is, and what it is not.
- How purpose survives scale, and what erodes it.
- The shift from ego to eco leadership, and what it asks of a senior team in practice.
Keynote, fireside or workshop
Keynote
45 to 60 minutes, interactive and tailored to your audience and context. For large stages, conferences and leadership offsites.
Fireside conversation
A hosted conversation with your CEO, CHRO or a panel. Closer to the podcast format: direct questions, real answers, room for the audience to interact and contribute.
Workshop add-on
A half-day session after the keynote so the ideas land in your real decisions, conversations and habits, using the Create / Connect / Coach approach.
In person or virtual · English or French · UK, Europe and beyond.
20 years inside transformation, 190+ conversations about it
- 20 years at Airbus, leading transformation from the inside across culture change, leadership, inclusion and digital transformation.
- 10 years enabling transformation in other sectors and industries
- Host of Let's Talk Transformation, 190+ episodes with leaders, researchers and change makers.
- Executive Fellow, Center for the Future of Organization, Drucker School of Management.
- Lecturer, Executive MBA, Toulouse Business School and ISAE-SUPAERO.
- Founder of Transform for Value and the Human Systems Practitioner programme.
Past talks and stages: Keynote: “Creating a culture of belonging for innovation and performance”, Balkan Business Forum, Belgrade (2024) · “CARE: the currency of social systems”, fireside chat, Center for the Future of Organization, Drucker School of Management (2025) · Hacking HR FORWARD 2023 Global Conference · Balkan Business Forum 2026, workshop “Navigating uncertainty” and Leadership Challenge mentor · LeaderFest 2026, MD2MD (UK) · guest on Happy@Work, The Passionistas Project, Serenity in Leadership and other podcasts.
“Suzie's systems thinking allows her to see and understand problem areas and together with the client, build impactful and sustainable solutions. Her capacity to onboard key stakeholders through direct pre-work with them, ensures that the solutions are actionable and meaningful at every level.”
— Susan Breton, Head of Inclusion & Diversity, Airbus
“I wouldn't be a partner now without her… she brings a holistic, systemic lens that challenges you to look beyond what you do and into who you are.”
— Siân Jackson, Employment Lawyer, Partner, Mills & Reeve
Tell me about your audience and what you want them to leave with
A 30-minute call is the simplest first step. I will come back with the keynote and format that fits your event, your audience and what is moving in your organisation.