Human Leadership for an AI-Powered World

21 Oct 2026
Deloitte Booth 6422 - Expo Hall
Deloitte Experience
Good leadership has long been defined by consistent behaviors, but AI is fundamentally reshaping the leadership contract. It's not simply a matter of adopting new tools or managing new workflows. AI is rewriting the expectations leaders carry into every relationship: with their organizations, their teams, and themselves.

Deloitte's research explores three interconnected dimensions of that shift. First, the external pressures: how AI is raising the bar on what organizations expect from leaders and what leaders, in turn, should expect from their teams. Second, the internal reckoning: how leaders are being asked to reconfront their authority and value in a world where machines can replicate many of the capabilities that once defined leadership credibility. Third, the conditions for sustainable success: what structures, skills, and support systems leaders actually need to perform and succeed amid continuous, compounding disruption.

Speakers
Matt Stevens
Matt Stevens, Managing Director - Deloitte Consulting LLP
Christina Brodzik
Christina Brodzik, Culture and Leadership Market Offering Leader - Deloitte Consulting LLP
Denise Shepherd
Denise Shepherd, Chief Learning Officer - Deloitte Consulting LLP

Learning Objective 1

Understand how AI is reshaping the leadership contract, including how expectations from boards, organizations, and teams are shifting and what that could mean for how leadership effectiveness is defined and measured.

Learning Objective 2

Recognize the identity pressures AI places on leaders and identify the internal dimensions of leadership disruption that often go unaddressed.

Learning Objective 3

Identify the organizational conditions that make sustainable leadership possible, including the structures, supports, and environmental factors leaders need to perform and succeed — moving the conversation from individual resilience to systemic enablement.

Access Level

Open to All Pass Holders