The future of work, made human.

I speak about AI, learning, adaptability, and the human judgment required to turn capability into performance.

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Why it lands

Make complex change feel usable, urgent, and human.

01Audiences leave with language for the change they are already living: AI, trust, skill, career reinvention, and the future of work.

02Leaders get practical ways to close the gap between knowing and doing, so learning becomes action, judgment, and performance.

03Teams see why adaptability is not a soft idea. It is the operating muscle behind better decisions, better execution, and better outcomes.

Bio

A practical voice on AI, learning, and the future of human performance.

Shawna David helps organizations turn learning into adaptability, performance, and measurable outcomes. She is the host of Leaders in Learning, co-founder of fata.dev, and creator of the Heads + Hands + Hearts framework for diagnosing where work gets stuck.

Shawna brings 20+ years of experience across commercial execution, enablement, operations, leadership development, and change. Her work focuses on the gap between knowing and doing: how people build judgment, apply skill, and improve performance in the flow of real work.

Her perspective is especially relevant for conversations about AI at work. As technology expands what is possible, human judgment, adaptability, and learning systems become more important, not less.

For producers and organizers, Shawna brings a grounded, accessible voice: strategic enough for executive audiences, practical enough for managers and teams, and human enough for broader future-of-work conversations.

Signature talks

Three talks built for leaders navigating what comes next.

These can flex from podcast segments and panel prompts to keynote talks and workshops.

01 / AI + Work

The Future of Work, Made Human

For executives, HR, L&D, and business leaders. A practical conversation about why human judgment, learning, trust, and adaptability matter more as technology expands what work can become.

02 / Capability gap

The AI Capability Gap

For teams adopting AI and emerging technology. Explores why tools alone do not create transformation, and how organizations can build the skill, behavior change, and operating rhythms required to use them well.

03 / Careers

The Career Portfolio

For professionals, leaders, and organizations rethinking talent. A modern view of careers built around adaptability, transferable skills, lived experience, and the ability to learn in motion.

Framework / Workshop

Heads + Hands + Hearts

For leadership offsites and manager cohorts. A diagnostic framework for finding where work gets stuck: clarity, execution, or the human energy required to sustain change.

Video proof

On-camera experience through Leaders in Learning.

Season 1 was built as a thought leadership series for L&D leaders and won CMA Gold for Best B2B Campaign on LinkedIn.

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Media kit

A quick read on credibility, topics, and presence.

Shawna has trained tens of thousands of employees and leaders globally, contributed as a writer to Ten Thousand Coffees, and appeared across panels, talks, and hosted conversations on learning, leadership, AI, and the future of work.

For organizers

Speaking fit

Useful for podcast hosts, event leads, and teams looking for a grounded voice on AI, learning, adaptability, leadership, and performance.

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Current image

A current real headshot for event pages, podcast notes, newsletters, and media promotion.

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On-camera work

Watch Shawna host Leaders in Learning, a CMA Gold-winning thought leadership series for people shaping the future of work.

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For timely segments, interviews, speaking inquiries, or producer requests, email directly with the format, audience, deadline, and topic.

Best fit: AI at work, adaptability, leadership, learning, human judgment, and career reinvention. Ottawa-based and available for in-person, studio, and remote appearances. English and French.

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