Why Leadership Is Being Asked to Become More Human
As leaders, there is an increasing focus on technology, and it is moving forward at a speed we have never experienced before. ChatGPT launched in 2022, and in just a few short years AI has entered our minds, our business meetings, and our personal lives. It is shaping how we think, how we work, and how we make decisions. As we lean more deeply into these tools, an important question deserves our attention. What do we stand to lose?
My lived experience tells me that many people are uncomfortable conversing with strangers, and even with loved ones. Human connection and shared experience were once the primary ways we bonded. Over time, as smartphones became central to daily life, something shifted. Intimacy thinned. Presence fractured. We became more connected digitally while growing more distant emotionally. As AI becomes woven into our pursuit of high-performing businesses and meaningful lives, this tension deepens. Without intention, we risk losing even more of our humanity.
As leaders, we are standing at a critical moment. I see this moment as an extraordinary opportunity. AI will remain part of our lives. Just as computers and the internet reshaped the world, this technology marks another evolution. Leadership now asks something new of us. A deeper maturity. A clearer grounding in who we are as humans. The opportunity before us is to lean fully into our humanity, to trust that abundance exists beyond constant striving, to rise into our worth without proving, and to create lives that feel aligned rather than forced. It is also an invitation to guide others in doing the same.
How this fully takes shape inside organizations is still emerging. What feels clear to me is this. When leaders trust deeply in abundance and worth, urgency softens. Space opens. There is more room for connection, development, and shared growth. Being human remains the one thing technology will never fully replicate, and that truth matters more now than ever.
For me, my role feels unmistakably clear. I am here to help leaders rise into their greatness and into their worth. This is my calling and my deepest purpose. It extends to every leader I encounter and most personally to the daughter I have been entrusted to raise. We all remember being teenagers. Very few of us listened to our parents. If my daughter is anything like me, she will question systems and push boundaries. I already know the most powerful way I can reach her, and that is by showing her.
By living a life rooted in trust, purpose, and authenticity. By demonstrating that a life of alignment is possible. By embodying the humanity I hope she carries forward. As we move toward greater automation and fewer people to manage, perhaps the greatest gift we can offer those who work with us is not a role, but an example. A lived experience of what it means to be human. The journey. The pain. The learning. And ultimately, the win.
This is leadership being asked to evolve.
And this is what I choose to illuminate.