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Charlene Li

Expert on Social Media, Marketing and Leadership; Best-Selling Author

Charlene Li is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller, Open Leadership and co-author of the critically acclaimed book, Groundswell. Her latest book is the bestseller The Disruption Mindset. She is the Founder and Senior Fellow at Altimeter, a disruptive analyst firm that was acquired in 2015 by Prophet. Charlene is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and was named one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company.

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For Large Conference Audiences:
Winning With AI: Crafting a Future-Ready Strategy
Explore the strategic implications of AI and how to align it with your organization’s core mission. Learn to prioritize high-impact initiatives, strengthen competitive advantage, address workforce implications, and manage risk. Gain the foundational knowledge to build a future-ready AI strategy that drives long-term growth.

In-Company Executive Session:
Creating a Unified AI Strategy: An Executive Roadmap
Designed for executive leadership, this session focuses on aligning AI with organizational objectives and identifying initiatives with the greatest potential impact. Explore workforce evolution, risk management, and the importance of a cohesive, actionable plan. Leave with a unified vision and clear roadmap for leveraging AI across the organization.

For AI Leaders:
Strategizing AI: Vision, Alignment, and Execution
Designed for AI leaders, this session explores how to build and execute a comprehensive AI strategy aligned with long-term organizational goals. Learn to secure stakeholder buy-in, balance innovation with risk, navigate workforce implications, and maintain a competitive edge while driving sustainable growth.

Audiences will learn to:

  • Ground AI strategy in the company’s purpose, values, and business strategy
  • Identify how AI can strengthen and defend competitive advantage
  • Understand the workforce, leadership, and culture implications of AI adoption
  • Build a robust AI strategy amid a rapidly changing technology landscape

“Disrupt or die” has been the rallying cry for decades, but what does it actually mean to be disruptive, to make it the center of your strategy? Many established companies set a goal to develop “disruptive” innovations, believing innovation will disrupt their market and drive growth. But that’s not how it works: Disruption doesn’t create growth. Growth creates disruption.

In this speech, Charlene acknowledges that transformations are never easy, and the unrelenting pace of technological change makes it doubly difficult. But there’s hope and a way forward—starting with reframing your strategy, leadership, and culture so that disruptive growth is at the top of your agenda.

Audiences will learn to:

  • Define what disruption is—and isn’t—and how it can drive disruptive growth
  • Identify and prioritize the right disruptive growth moves and align the organization around them
  • Understand how leaders must show up differently when pursuing a disruption strategy
  •  Instill disruption into a status-quo culture

New technologies pop up daily that allow us to connect and communicate with employees in real time. Yet organizations are wired for a bygone era when there was the luxury of time and proximity. Most organizations measure employee engagement in yearly surveys—hardly the way to truly engage employees in the digital era.

In this speech, Charlene makes the case to develop a new mindset, one that’s centered on creating a long-term relationship with employees that melds holistically with creating great experiences for customers. From creating belonging among hybrid workers to the adoption of AI, we’ll dig deep into how technology is changing the nature of work and our relationship with employees.

 Audiences will learn to:

    • Understand how employee expectations in the workplace are being influenced by their personal use of technology , especially AI
    • Prepare for the long-term implications for employee engagement
  •  Identify the experiences that employees value the most
  •  Create rich collaboration experiences that support a different way of work

 

Digital technologies have revolutionized relationships, and leadership is no exception. To be truly engaged, effective leaders must harness and master the power of digital communications and branding, especially with the challenges of leading a distributed team.

In this speech, Charlene explains that the key is understanding how your personal leadership style can be extended and scaled through digital techniques to achieve your most important goals. You’ll learn the art and science of how to listen, share, and engage with employees and customers in the digital era. We’ll also discuss common objections and concerns of leaders and how to address them.

Audiences will learn to:

  • Master a new way of developing relationships, which begins by stepping out of traditional hierarchies
  • Listen at scale, share to shape, and engage to transform
  • Shift to a digital mindset
  • Apply the right digital tools to meet strategic goals

What does it mean to be wise? Wisdom is not just a matter of intelligence, knowledge, or character. Smart people make foolish decisions all the time. But what if we could improve our decision-making even a little bit and make consistently wiser choices? Imagine the exponential impact if we could intentionally support the people in our organizations to be wiser, regardless of their experience levels.

In this speech, Charlene takes audiences on a journey of discovery toward experiencing the true power of wisdom. With the right tools and guidance, you, too, can learn to make the right decisions and create a life and organization filled with meaning, purpose, and happiness.

Audiences will learn to:

  • Define wisdom in the context of leading an organization
  • Develop wisdom in themselves and others
  • Create a wise organization capable of consistently making great decisions

Biography

For more than three decades, Charlene Li has helped organizations navigate the disruptions that redefine industries, leadership, and work. Today, she is helping executives tackle perhaps the greatest transformation yet: creating business value with AI. 

She’s the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestseller, “Open Leadership,” and co-author of the critically acclaimed book, “Groundswell”. Her latest book is the bestseller “Winning with AI: The 90-Day Blueprint for Success.”

Charlene is also an entrepreneur, the Founder and CEO of Altimeter, a disruptive analyst firm acquired in 2015. She most recently served as the Chief Research Officer for PA Consulting and currently leads her firm, Quantum Networks Group.

Charlene has worked with hundreds of top companies ranging from Adobe to Southwest Airlines and advised 49 Fortune 100 companies. She has spoken at events like the World Economic Forum, TED, and South by Southwest.

Named one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company and a LinkedIn Top Voice on Culture, Charlene graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School. She lives in San Francisco and teaches her cat tricks in her spare time.

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