Heather E McGowan

Biography

Future of Work Keynote Speaker, Heather E. McGowan, defines the Future of Work as a process of preparing for rapid and constant changes. Drawing on her extensive experience on both the supply (education) and demand (corporate) sides of human talent development and organization, McGowan has been the top Future of Work keynote speaker longer than the term has been in widespread use. Keynote discussions around the future of work once focused on the role of technology in displacing human knowledge work. Today, they focus on the humanization of work itself.

In her two most recent books (The Adaptation Advantage: Let Go, Learn Fast, and Thrive in the Future of Work; Wiley 2020 and The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce; Wiley 2023), and across all of her keynote speeches, McGowan tackles subjects from human adaptation, learning agility, agile mindset theory, and mitigating the risk of technological unemployment to hybrid workplaces, empathetic leadership, the power of purpose and belonging in talent retention, culture development, the essential role of trust, the strategic advantage of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, and the opportunity to redesign work to unleash more human potential than ever before.

If you’re looking for a Future of Work keynote speaker who can shift the thinking of your audiences in under one hour to embrace explorations into the rapidly changing future of work, Heather E. McGowan is the speaker for you.