Abstract:

AI is reshaping technology roles faster than most teams can adapt. Technical people are being pushed into business-facing conversations –presenting to leadership, making the strategic case, and translating complex work for audiences who don’t live in it. Some are embracing it. Others aren’t. But almost nobody was trained for it.

The market’s answer has been executive presence coaching and charisma training — as if communication were a personality trait. It isn’t. It’s a discipline. And it’s learnable.

In this interactive closing session, narrative architect Meredith Clause draws on hundreds of technology presentations and her own operator background at Best Buy, Regis, and Anytime Fitness to dismantle the myth that “you either have it or you don’t” and walk the room through the framework that replaces it. You’ll leave with a sttucture and tool you and your team can use in your next high-stakes meeting.