Technical expertise can take you far, but as AI automates technical work, success increasingly depends on a different set of capabilities: seeing the bigger picture, making sound decisions with incomplete information, understanding how business creates value, influencing people, and bringing others together around a common goal. As AI automates mundane tasks, what skills are critical to step into advanced professional and leadership positions?
Which skills will matter most as AI becomes increasingly capable and how can we develop them?
Join Christine Looser, Shakeel Rashed, and Bjorn Billhardt, CEO and founder of Abilitie and co-author of The 12-Week MBA, for a practical conversation about the universal and enduring competencies professionals need to thrive in the age of agentic AI.
Christine Looser is a behavioral scientist and Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at Minerva Project. Her work focuses on helping institutions make their learning programs more effective, experiential, and relevant to today’s world.
Shakeel Rashed has led and witnessed multiple technology transitions over 30+ years, from client-server to web, cloud to mobile to IoT, and Data Warehouses to Data Sciences to Machine Learning/AI. He has a strong foundation in data, machine learning and artificial intelligence, helping startups leverage emerging technologies. He has written extensively about the AI startup ecosystem in Austin, researching and documenting AI and machine learning companies in the area over the last decade.
Whether you're an emerging leader, leadership development professional, experienced executive, entrepreneur, or someone preparing for your next level of responsibility, you'll leave with a clearer understanding of the capabilities that matter most and practical ideas for continuing to develop them.