Key Speech Themes
Ingenuity • Leadership • Building Brands
Creativity • Human Advantage
Strategic Thinking • Navigating Change
Maximizing AI • Generating Big Ideas
Innovation • Organizational Culture
Abigail’s Story
- Former director, U.S. Creative Works at Google.
- Pioneered humanizing digital; anthropology-based series exploring our emotional relationship with technology.
- Founder, Human Code Company.
- Applies her rare combination of backgrounds in human behavior, culture, creativity, and tech to show leaders and teams new ways of innovating and navigating change.
- Inspires organizations to ask the deeper questions that ignite new ideas and fuel growth.
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How do we create the future when change is coming at us so fast? That’s what Abigail Posner is asked by the companies and leaders she works with now.
The answer lies in the ability for leaders and organizations to think expansively and harness their Human Code as the ultimate competitive edge in an AI world.
The Human Code is the art of combining your unique experiences, interests, and perspectives to lead with more impact, more originality, and an edge that’s entirely your own.
For 13 years at Google, Abigail helped clients invent the future by applying her unique combination of backgrounds – cultural anthropology, the creative world, and tech.
Now in her post-Google career as a speaker and consultant, Abigail inspires leaders and teams think expansively. She helps them unlock innovation and drive real transformation by blending AI and data intelligence with creative vision and human-centered thinking.
That’s the overview – but let’s dive in a bit.
At Google’s Creative Works, Abigail led a multidisciplinary team developing data-driven, AI-powered advertising and branded content strategies for YouTube’s top global advertisers. She pioneered Humanizing Digital, an anthropology-based thought leadership series exploring our emotional relationship with technology. She also helped guide a cultural transformation initiative for Google’s 4,000+ sales professionals, building unity and renewed purpose across regions; and earlier, created and scaled a global culture of insights program that deepened customer understanding both within Google and across client organizations.
Before joining Google, Abigail served as executive vice president of Brand Strategy at Publicis New York and Strategy Team Director at DDB New York, where she led major global client initiatives and new business efforts that shaped brand identities across industries.
Her work has been recognized with the United Nations Media Impact Award, and her insights have been featured in outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, CNBC, and elsewhere. She regularly shares perspectives on innovation, creativity, and the human-technology relationship at conferences and business gatherings all over the world.
Through the Human Code newsletter and her writing in outlets such as The Drum, Abigail shapes global dialogue around culture, technology, and human behavior. She also hosts the Human Code podcast, bringing these conversations to life with industry leaders and cultural figures.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University in social anthropology, Abigail lives in New York City, where she raised her three adult children.
Abigail Posner’s Videos
Human Code Newsletter Introduction
Abigail Posner: An Introduction
Seeking the Why Ignites Breakthrough Insights
We Are All Inherently Creative
Expansiveness Edge
Summing it Up
How Do We Cultivate Expansiveness?
Generative AI Supports Divergent Thinking
Speech Descriptions
Your Expansiveness Edge: Harnessing the Untapped Combinations Within You
What’s my edge now? That’s what leaders are asking in a world where AI completely shifted how they add value and lead through change.
The leaders defining what’s next have figured out how to connect all the different sides of who they are, strategically and deliberately, to generate ideas and drive impact no one else can replicate. This isn’t bringing your whole self to work. It’s a different game entirely.
Read More >Wired to Create: Tap Your Innate Creativity to Drive Bolder Ideas and Bigger Breakthroughs
Too many people don’t think they’re capable of generating the breakthrough ideas their organization desperately needs. They’re wrong. And this presentation inspires them how to contribute in ways they never imagined.
Creativity isn’t reserved for the “naturally gifted” — it’s wired into all of us. The problem isn’t that people lack creative capacity. It’s that they’ve never been shown how to find it, trust it, and activate it.
Read More >Ingenuity Unleashed: Using AI to Make Human Imagination More Powerful Than Ever
Everyone is using AI to do the same things faster. Almost no one is using it to think bigger. The creative potential of AI is vastly underestimated and almost entirely untapped.
Your boldest ideas and sharpest instincts have always been there. But ingenuity, the ability to apply those ideas to solve real problems, can only go so far when it’s buried under the mental load of everything else. AI changes that.
Read More >Speech Descriptions
Your Expansiveness Edge: Harnessing the Untapped Combinations Within You
What’s my edge now? That’s what leaders are asking in a world where AI completely shifted how they add value and lead through change.
The leaders defining what’s next have figured out how to connect all the different sides of who they are, strategically and deliberately, to generate ideas and drive impact no one else can replicate. This isn’t bringing your whole self to work. It’s a different game entirely.
Read More >Wired to Create: Tap Your Innate Creativity to Drive Bolder Ideas and Bigger Breakthroughs
Too many people don’t think they’re capable of generating the breakthrough ideas their organization desperately needs. They’re wrong. And this presentation inspires them how to contribute in ways they never imagined.
Creativity isn’t reserved for the “naturally gifted” — it’s wired into all of us. The problem isn’t that people lack creative capacity. It’s that they’ve never been shown how to find it, trust it, and activate it.
Read More >Ingenuity Unleashed: Using AI to Make Human Imagination More Powerful Than Ever
Everyone is using AI to do the same things faster. Almost no one is using it to think bigger. The creative potential of AI is vastly underestimated and almost entirely untapped.
Your boldest ideas and sharpest instincts have always been there. But ingenuity, the ability to apply those ideas to solve real problems, can only go so far when it’s buried under the mental load of everything else. AI changes that.
Read More >What People Say About Abigail
