Louise Ballard

Judgement, Experience & the Power Skills of the AI Era

Louise Ballard is Co-Founder of Atheni, having come to AI at 53 after thirty years in communications, twenty-five of them alongside private equity and venture capital, including founding her own agency and heading Grayling’s largest, highest-earning practice. Her keynotes and workshops, including “Expiry Date: Never”, make the case that experience and judgement — not technical skill — are what make AI powerful, and explore what leaves an organisation when experienced people do. She speaks to leaders bringing whole workforces along with AI adoption, with particular strength in women-in-leadership, midlife and over-fifties audiences.