In this session, Victoria Pelletier draws on 25 years of leading enterprise transformations to unpack what actually makes a workforce future-ready. She examines why trust is the operating condition for every reskilling effort, how to identify the adjacent skills your people already have, and what leaders must do differently when the pace of change outstrips the pace of comfort. Join her for a practical conversation about designing organizations where technical talent adapts rather than exits.

Key takeaways:
• Why trust — not tooling — determines whether an AI or transformation initiative succeeds, and the specific leadership behaviours that build or erode it
• How to map skills adjacency: identifying what your people can already do next, rather than hiring for capability you may already have
• How to distinguish the parts of technical work that AI genuinely changes from the parts leaders only assume it does
• What culture design looks like in practice when the work itself is being redefined mid-stream
• How to advocate for your own future-readiness when your organization hasn't figured out its plan yet

This session is for women in STEM at any career stage who want to future-proof their own value, and the leaders, managers, and principal investigators responsible for teams navigating AI adoption and rapid change. No technical AI background required.

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Live captioning and a video recording will be available.