Generative AI and the Impact on Businesses and Organizations

Claudia provides a cutting-edge overview of today's most fascinating AI implementations, from self-driving delivery robots revolutionizing last-mile logistics to artificial noses detecting disease through breath analysis. Drawing from current breakthroughs, she examines how these revolutionary technologies are transforming organizational structures and creating entirely new business models in the contactless economy. Her insights reveal how AI is reimagining everything from urban mobility with autonomous drones to personalized medicine with AI-powered diagnostic tools.

Through carefully selected case studies, she illuminates how forward-thinking organizations are embracing these innovations. She addresses the critical questions leaders face when implementing AI: how to balance data-driven insights with human intuition, navigate ethical implications, and maintain human connection in an increasingly automated world. Her analysis shows how pioneering companies are creating cultures where emerging technologies and human creativity form powerful synergies.

Designed for executives and managers leading their organizations through digital transformation, this exploration demonstrates how seemingly sci-fi concepts are becoming today's business reality. Participants gain practical insights into how to position their organizations at the frontier of innovation while ensuring technology serves human needs and values.

The Future of Work: Navigating a New Paradigm

Claudia explores how AI is fundamentally transforming the nature of work and redefining what it means to be a leader. Drawing from her extensive experience, she examines how AI reshapes traditional roles and workflows, requiring organizations to adapt their structures and leadership approaches. She provides practical insights into how work itself is evolving, from AI-augmented decision-making to new models of collaboration between humans and machines, showing leaders how to foster teams where human creativity and AI capabilities complement each other.

Through her analysis of the future workplace, Claudia illuminates the new competencies demanded from leaders at all levels. She delves into essential skills like AI literacy, ethical decision-making, and the critical ability to evaluate and leverage AI-generated outputs. Her forward-looking perspective reveals emerging job categories, the evolution of the gig economy, and the growing role of AI agents in reshaping traditional employment models. She addresses key challenges facing modern leaders: how to balance automation with human development, create organizational cultures that embrace AI while preserving human connection and creativity, and identify which leadership traits will matter most in AI-enhanced organizations.

Aimed at executives and managers, this exploration of AI-enabled workplaces provides a window into the future of organizational leadership, where AI becomes an integral part of how we work, collaborate, and innovate. From AI ethicists and robot-human interaction coaches to virtual world designers and AI talent agents, Claudia offers fascinating glimpses into the jobs that will shape tomorrow's workforce.

Digital Leadership - How to Lead Successfully in the AI Era

The rise of artificial intelligence has ushered in a new era of leadership challenges and opportunities. Today's organizations navigate a complex landscape where human capabilities and machine intelligence intersect, requiring a fresh approach to leadership. In her thought-provoking presentation, Claudia reveals the essence of digital leadership in the AI age. She illustrates how forward-thinking leaders foster environments where innovation thrives, self-organization emerges, and human creativity synergizes with AI's analytical power. Claudia outlines strategies for cultivating continuous learning, balancing automation with human-centric values, and addressing the ethical implications of AI integration. She pinpoints the critical skills leaders must hire and train for in this new landscape, emphasizing adaptability and technological fluency. Drawing from real-world examples, Claudia showcases how visionary leaders are reimagining organizational structures to promote agility and innovation, while underlining the importance of emotional intelligence in our data-driven world. Through Claudia's insights, attendees will gain valuable knowledge on navigating leadership challenges in a technology-driven era, fostering self-organized teams, identifying crucial skills for the AI age, and implementing strategies for successful AI integration. Her presentation offers an enlightening view of how leaders can steer their organizations towards a future where technology becomes a powerful catalyst for unlocking human potential and organizational success.

Global Digital Trends - Overview of the Most Important Game Changers of Our Time

Digital transformation is fundamentally reshaping our world, and few understand its global impact better than Claudia, whose international career spans three continents and six countries. Through her immersive experiences living and working in India, Singapore, USA, Germany, France, and Poland, she brings a uniquely comprehensive perspective on how different societies are embracing technological change. As founder of Stellar Capacity and through her expert group work with the World Economic Forum, she provides firsthand insight into how digital innovation manifests differently across cultures – from Singapore's Smart Nation approach to India's digital payment revolution.

Drawing from her extensive cross-cultural experience and role in the Trilateral Commission, Claudia examines how emerging technologies are revolutionizing decision-making and creating interconnected environments that transcend traditional boundaries. She addresses critical societal implications of digital transformation, exploring how different regions approach challenges like the digital divide, privacy concerns, and workforce automation. This comprehensive presentation helps organizations and leaders navigate digital transformation through a truly international lens, ensuring their approaches to innovation are both culturally informed and globally relevant.

From hierarchies to wirearchies - driving digital transformation

Digital transformation fundamentally reshapes how organizations operate and deliver value, a shift Claudia Olsson understands deeply through her extensive work with the Swedish Defence. Her experience in navigating complex organizational change in high-stakes environments provides unique insights into how traditional hierarchies evolve into more dynamic, networked structures. Drawing from her work in defense digitalization, she demonstrates how organizations can successfully integrate cutting-edge tools while maintaining operational excellence and security.

Through concrete examples, Claudia illustrates how successful transformation goes beyond implementing new technologies – it requires reimagining core processes and fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation. She addresses critical challenges leaders face: breaking down traditional silos, encouraging cross-functional collaboration, and building trust in distributed decision-making systems. Her insights, garnered from working with both defense and civilian organizations, reveal how to build adaptable teams that thrive in rapidly changing environments.

Recognized as one of Sweden's most influential women in technology and business, Claudia equips leaders with practical strategies to guide their organizations confidently through digital evolution while maintaining operational integrity and security.

Innovation to solve grand challenges

Claudia Olsson illuminates how innovation manifests across different contexts - from revolutionary breakthroughs to subtle, yet powerful improvements in everyday processes. She explores innovation not just as radical invention, but as the art of finding new perspectives on existing challenges, reimagining service delivery, and creating unexpected connections that drive meaningful change. Through compelling examples, she demonstrates how innovation emerges both through systematic exploration and serendipitous discovery.

Drawing from her experience working with both public and private sectors, Claudia reveals how organizations can foster environments where innovation thrives. She shares insights into how government agencies are transforming citizen services through novel collaboration models, how businesses are reimagining customer value through service design, and how cross-sector partnerships can unlock new possibilities. Her analysis shows how true innovation often lies in reframing problems, challenging assumptions, and finding novel ways to create value - whether through digital transformation, service design, or organizational change.

Recognized as one of Sweden's most visionary leaders, Claudia offers practical insights into building innovative cultures that balance creativity with execution, human needs with technological possibilities, and bold vision with incremental improvement. She demonstrates how organizations can move beyond traditional innovation models to create lasting positive impact, whether by improving public services, reimagining customer experiences, or solving complex societal challenges.

The Power skills of the AI era

In an era of exponential technological change, Claudia Olsson illuminates how human capabilities - what she calls "power skills" - are becoming more vital than ever. Drawing from her groundbreaking work at Stellar Capacity, Claudia reveals how skills like curiosity, empathy, and adaptability are reshaping leadership and innovation in the age of AI.

Through compelling real-world examples and cutting-edge research, she demonstrates why traditional "soft skills" should be reframed as essential "power skills" that drive organizational success. Her presentation explores how these capabilities enable us to harness AI's potential while maintaining our uniquely human competitive edge. She shares practical strategies for cultivating power skills across organizations, from fostering curiosity through dedicated innovation programs to building empathy through immersive technologies.

Drawing from her work training over 185,000 participants in digital leadership, Claudia provides actionable insights for developing the skills crucial for the next decade - whether that's navigating the emerging "agent economy" or thriving in increasingly networked organizations. This thought-provoking session equips leaders with frameworks for building more adaptable, innovative, and human-centered organizations in an AI-augmented world. Participants will gain practical tools for cultivating power skills in themselves and their teams, enabling them to lead with purpose and resilience in an era of unprecedented change.

"During our 100-year anniversary conference of Alecta, Claudia Olsson was a highly appreciated keynote speaker alongside former Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. Claudia shared her expertise into how cutting edge technology is disrupting the global labor market. Her presentation was highly inspirational, informative and dynamic and demonstrated a high level of understanding for the changing conditions of the global markets. Her insights in the following debate were mind opening for the audience and enabled us to take the discussions to the next level. Claudia’s insights are directly applicable to our organization, enhancing our strategic analysis with the new perspectives Claudia offered from her research and implementation work."

“KES is Brazil’s leading platform for innovation, and future-oriented leadership development. We work with global experts that go beyond the obvious, that are provocative, and that see further than most. Claudia Olsson is one of the most brilliant minds we have had the privilege to work with, and we have engaged her both as part of our flagship executive discovery program to Stockholm as well as at multiple occasions with public and private leaders in Brazil. We praise her openness and willingness to understand the challenges that the participants face and to focus on the opportunities which will create the most value for them. She has a unique way to translate complicated concepts into actionable insights, always placing the humans in the center. In terms of the knowledge and insights Claudia shares, they are always spot-on!”

“Claudia Olsson has the rare gift of explaining complicated matters in a clarifying way. During the TeknikföreDagen summit, she pointed out the landmarks of the future in the digitalized landscape. For Teknikföretagen this was of great value, since our member companies are right in the middle of a vast transformation of industry and production. Where the rules now are being altered on a profound level. Digitalization, AI and additive production are forces that will have a deep impact on how we work and organize."