AI is no longer an experiment. It is infrastructure.
Across industries, organizations are embedding AI into workflows to increase speed, precision, and scale.

A recent global study found that employees who use AI daily report higher job satisfaction and greater optimism about their careers. Yet those same workers report up to 20 percent higher stress levels.
This is the paradox leaders must confront.

Productivity has accelerated. When output becomes easier, expectations rise. More efficiency leads to more tasks. More capability leads to more responsibility. As AI expands performance capacity, it can simultaneously intensify psychological load.

For HR leaders and C-suite executives, this is not a wellness sidebar. It is a talent strategy issue.
Technostress — the strain created by constant technological adaptation and rising performance expectations — is emerging as a measurable business risk.

When cognitive overload increases and recovery time decreases, engagement drops, decision quality declines, and turnover risk rises.

The future of work is not AI versus humans. It is AI plus human capacity. And human capacity depends on emotional regulation, resilience, focus, and connection.

In this session, I introduce Happiness Habits as a strategic lever for performance in AI-driven organizations. These are not motivational slogans. They are small, research-backed behavioral practices that strengthen neural pathways linked to stress regulation, optimism, and sustained engagement.

Key Objectives:
→ Identify how technostress shows up in high-performing, AI-enabled teams
→ Implement practical micro-habits that improve resilience, focus, and sustainable productivity
→ Design cultures where elevated performance does not require elevated burnout

As AI scales capability, leaders must scale humanity with equal intention.

The competitive advantage in the AI era will not belong solely to the most automated organization. It will belong to the organization that understands how to sustain human performance inside acceleration.

That is the real AI + HI strategy.

Speaking REEL— University of Tennessee System Administrative Professionals Summit. 11/12/25 Hilton Knoxville, TN https://youtu.be/aaW0Jz7593U