Speaking Topics

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Human-Centered AI: What High-Performing Teams Do Differently

AI is already in core workflows. The question isn't whether to adopt— it's whether your leadership practices are evolving fast enough to match. Without clear ownership, sharper judgment, and governance that lives in the work, AI amplifies confusion instead of improving performance.

In this session, Kathryn Landis walks through four practices that distinguish teams who scale AI well from teams who stall: creating decision clarity, shifting humans to higher-value work, building performance resilience, and establishing guardrails for scale. Drawing on her advisory practice and published work in Fast Company, she equips leaders with a practical filter for what to automate, a shared language for recalibration, and a set of questions that sharpen how they lead through this transition.

Participants will learn how to:

  • Clarify decision ownership when AI is in the workflow
  • Apply a practical filter for what to automate versus what to keep human
  • Make governance a team habit, not a compliance document.
  • Recognize the common pitfalls — over-reliance, unclear authority, speed without guardrails — and correct for them

How High-Performing Teams Master Change, Pressure, and Dysfunction

Constant change, expanding responsibilities, and competing priorities place enormous pressure on leadership teams. Even capable teams fall into patterns that stall progress — unclear purpose, shallow structure, missing context, and coaching that never happens. The result is effort without traction.

Drawing on her work advising senior leadership teams, executive coach Kathryn Landis walks through the six conditions that determine whether a team succeeds or stalls — three must-haves (compelling purpose, right people, and a real team — not just a group of individuals reporting to the same leader) and three enablers (sound structure, supportive context, team coaching). Using a live diagnostic scorecard, leaders can determine their team's single point of leverage — the one condition where a small, intentional move will have the greatest impact.

Participants will learn how to:

  • Diagnose the six conditions that drive team effectiveness and pinpoint where their team is breaking down
  • Align a team on a new initiative by surfacing what success looks like, where it could break down, and what each person will own
  • Identify their team's single point of leverage and leave with a specific, prioritized move to make next
  • Build the context needed to execute: the information, resources, recognition, and access to expertise

Maximize Your Career Productivity: Take Control of Your Future

High achievers often find themselves focused on putting out daily fires at work at the expense of their long-term goals. This often leads to missed opportunities, frustration, and professional stagnation. Kathryn Landis, executive coach and career strategist, will empower the audience to get into the driver’s seat of their career.

Participants will learn how to:

  • Create a strategic career vision that guides long-term growth
  • Avoid common traps that derail advancement
  • Prioritize high-impact work that gets noticed and rewarded
  • Identify strategic pivots to stay relevant
  • Build a professional network to propel your career journey

Embracing Generational Diversity in Today’s Hybrid Work Environment

Today’s workforce spans multiple generations, each shaped by distinct experiences, values, and communication styles. While this diversity brings opportunity, it also creates potential friction- especially in hybrid and remote environments. Kathryn Landis, trusted advisor to Fortune 500 leaders and executive educator at New York University, offers practical tools to help leaders bridge generational divides and create a sense of mutual appreciation, collaboration and team cohesion.

Participants will learn how to:

  • Deepen their understanding of generational perspectives and workplace drivers
  • Improve communication and collaboration across age groups
  • Build an inclusive environment where generational diversity becomes a strategic advantage

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What Clients Are Saying

Christy Tostevin, Senior Vice President Communications and Community Relations, Victoria’s Secret

“Kathryn your facilitation was masterful! So engaging and thoughtful with excellent callback to presentations from earlier in the day and insightful input throughout.”

Tatiana Fittipaldi, Director, Programs, Global Events and Institute of International Finance

“I had the pleasure of hearing Kathryn Landis speak at PCMA’s Convening Leaders this year, and she blew me away. She brought incredible energy, real leadership insight, and strategies the audience can actually use.”