Lynn Banaszak
- President and CEO, The Caileigh Lynn McDowell Foundation
Session
Rehumanizing the Future: Building a Future-Ready Workforce in the Age of AI
This keynote explores a human-first, tech-powered approach to workforce innovation in an AI-driven world. Lynn Banaszak presents the Future Ready Framework — a model integrating emotional intelligence, trauma-informed design, and ethical AI literacy to create inclusive and resilient systems. Drawing from her leadership experience at Amazon, Carnegie Mellon, and The Caileigh Lynn McDowell Foundation, she challenges attendees to reframe workforce readiness by embedding ethics, empathy, and equity at every level.
Attendee Takeaways:
- The Future Ready Framework: a model for building ethical, adaptive, innovation-ready systems
- Templates and tools for ethical innovation, including an AI Trust & Ethics Charter and an Equity-Centered Innovation Toolkit
- Strategies for embedding empathy, resilience, and psychological safety into talent pipelines
- A redefined view of workforce readiness that centers inclusion, trauma-informed leadership, and emotional adaptability