Every person in this room will spend today learning powerful new tools, frameworks, and systems. This keynote gives that learning a human anchor.

Drawing on 20+ years spanning education, workforce development, and organizational design — and research on PowerSkills and multidimensional learning — Isabella Johnston makes the case that technical skills get you in the room, but your values, judgment, and self-awareness determine what you build once you’re there.

AI accelerates everything, including the gap between professionals who know who they are and those who don’t.

Attendees will leave with a clear framework for identifying and investing in what makes them irreplaceable — and a new lens for everything they learn the rest of the day.