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Leadership in the Age of AI: what must remain human?
As AI gives us more information, more answers and more ways to automate, the qualities that cannot be automated may matter more than ever: judgment, intuition, courage, integrity, curiosity, and the willingness to take a risk.
September 2, 2026 · San Francisco
Leadership, Risk & Reinvention in the Age of AI.
On September 2, 2026, Patty joined moderator Lydia Flocchini for a fireside chat and book signing at Frontier Tower in San Francisco, hosted with Oasis Collective. The conversation drew on her 40+ years beside Silicon Valley leaders across legal tech, quantum AI, media and healthcare.
Guests left with a signed copy of Practicing the Art of Becoming, and a sharper sense of what only they can bring to a world that is automating everything else.
In the conversation
Risk as essential to growth
Telling intuition apart from fear
Transitions in identity and leadership
Perseverance versus overstaying
Vulnerability as leadership
Protecting human judgment as AI advances
The real disruption
The change is not only technical. It is personal.
AI is rewriting roles, workflows and definitions of value faster than most people can absorb. Beneath the strategy sits a quieter question: when a machine can do what I do, who am I becoming?
Patty meets leaders and teams at that threshold, where fear, identity and possibility collide, and helps them choose who they become next, instead of letting the technology decide.
Leaders are asking
What does my team need from me that no machine can give?
How do we stay human while moving at machine speed?
What is my value when my role changes?
What do I want to build, now that the old map no longer fits?
Ways to bring Patty in
Authenticity is the new authority.
As trust in polish and performance declines, integrity and human judgment become the real advantage. Every format is shaped around your audience and the change they are facing.
Keynote
Risk to Become™ in the Age of AI
How leaders and teams navigate identity, fear and human value when technology changes what contribution means.
Fireside chat
Leadership, Risk & Reinvention
A moderated conversation and Q&A, like her San Francisco evening, with an optional book signing.
Private advisory
For leaders at the edge of change
One-to-one strategic partnership for executives navigating AI-driven change in their organizations and in their own roles.
What people leave with
Clarity about what only they can bring.
Clarity about what must remain human in their work and leadership
Language for fear, without being ruled by it
Trust in their own judgment and intuition
A conscious next step, chosen before they leave the room