How to Keep Moving When Everything Keeps Changing. A Navigation System for Staying Relevant in the Age of AI and Beyond

​Session Description:

​AI is moving fast—and for many leaders, it’s stirring anxiety, overwhelm, and a quiet sense of disorientation.

​In this session, Michael Hunter offers a grounding alternative to “keep up or fall behind” thinking. Drawing on decades in software and leadership coaching, he introduces a simple navigation system for staying relevant and effective in times of rapid change.

​Instead of chasing tools, participants learn to:

• ​Clarify where they’re stuck and why it matters

• ​Turn uncertainty into meaningful direction

• ​Take small, safe actions that build real momentum

​AI becomes a power tool—not a pressure cooker.

​This is a talk about relevance, agency, and human craft—with AI as the proving ground.

​Speaker Bio: Michael Hunter | LinkedIn

​Michael Hunter is the creator of The Uncommon Hero and the author of The Resilient Tech Leader. He began his career working across nearly every role in software development—including a lot of debugging code. Realizing most technical problems were actually people problems, he moved on to debugging people. Realizing that was mostly inflicting help, he now helps leaders debug themselves. Michael works with smart people navigating rapid change (and who isn’t these days), strengthening the distinctly human skills technology can’t replace: judgment, craft, and presence. His work helps people move from intellectually knowing they’re valuable to embodying the certainty and courage to lead as themselves, especially in systems not designed for how they think. His approach blends practical frameworks, deep humanity, and a touch of whimsy.