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AI isn’t taking your job—the person who learns to partner with AI might. In this fast‑paced, practical keynote, Heather Cook shares a human‑first playbook for making your career AI‑resilient and AI‑accelerated. We’ll reframe “AI‑proofing” as a set of durable power skills that compound with every release: clarity of problem framing, judgment and ethics, adaptive communication and storytelling, systems thinking, collaborative leadership, data/AI literacy, and promptcraft patterns that make Copilot and agents work for you.
You’ll learn how to translate ambiguity into action, design prompts and reusable workflows that scale your impact, and build a personal operating system for focus, feedback, and growth. We’ll spotlight real scenarios—from running better meetings to shaping strategy—in ways that elevate your team and your visibility. Walk away with a lightweight toolkit, a one‑page skills map, and next steps you can put to work on Monday. The future of work is human + AI—this is how you lead in it.
Heather currently serves as Principal PM Manager for the Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group, Collaborative Applications and Platform Group at Microsoft. She leads a charter of engagement, evangelism, and growth by building strategy, programs, and connections for our community members with Microsoft.
Heather is a former Microsoft MVP for Microsoft 365 Apps and Services. Over the past twenty-three years, Heather has been a marketing executive for multiple tech companies and Head Maven and Founder of her impact consultancy, Creative Maven.
As a consultant, executive event producer, and fractional Chief Marketing Officer, Heather has produced thousands of events, campaigns, and experiences in the high-tech and entertainment industries. She is also a corporate and community keynote speaker who hosts and moderates in-person and online events and company meetings. Heather loves sharing stories and interviewing people. Her sassy podcast, Mavens Do It Better, features extraordinary experts who light a spark in our world and will get a reboot in 2024. Heather is a published playwright, theatre actor, director, and graduate of the University of Washington School of Drama, Seattle, Washington.
Heather is originally from Michigan and Illinois and lives in Marina del Rey, California, close to LAX, so she can continue to travel and speak around the world about healthy workplaces, leveling up one’s power skills, community, and diversity & inclusion.
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