Book IWD Speaker: Danielle LaFleur

Learn why 80% of AI implementations fail & what the 20% do differently

PROGRAM/KEYNOTE
The Post-Labor Reckoning: Why AI Without Operations Intelligence Fails

INTENDED AUDIENCE: CEOs, operations executives, and leaders navigating existential transformation in an AI-driven economy

Everyone's rushing to implement AI. But nobody's talking about what happens when you automate a business held together with duct tape and heroic effort.

Here's the uncomfortable truth:  We're entering a post-labor economy where knowledge is no longer currency, and most businesses are completely unprepared. They're using AI for content, marketing, and busy work (automating what's easy instead of what matters) while their operations quietly bleed profitability.

Danielle LaFleur has spent 25 years in the trenches building businesses, and she's watched this pattern destroy companies from the inside out. In this thought-provoking keynote, she dismantles the "AI will save us" mythology and delivers what leaders actually need: a framework for building operationally intelligent businesses before labor becomes optional.

The Five Hidden Signals of Scalability:

Most leaders can't answer these questions with data:
- Clarity: Do you actually know what's happening in your business, or are you guessing?
- Capacity: How much can your systems handle before they break?
- Consistency: Does your business deliver reliably, or does it depend on heroes?
- Communication: How much time is lost because information doesn't flow?
- Control: Are you leading proactively, or firefighting reactively?

If you can't answer these with data, you're not ready for AI. You're just about to scale chaos faster.

The Reality Check: What Leaders Are Actually Trading

Most leaders give AI broken workflows, scattered data, and operations held together by institutional knowledge. What they gain is faster chaos, expensive automation nobody uses, and a business that can't scale without burning money and people. Smart leaders build operational intelligence first (auditing where chaos lives, mapping what kills profitability, testing systems humans can follow), then engineer operations worthy of AI. What they actually gain is growth without heroics, agency over outcomes through data, intelligence that compounds, and humanity as a competitive advantage.

The Post-Labor Truth Nobody Wants to Hear:

We're not entering an age where AI does the boring stuff so humans can be creative. We're entering an age where AI can do almost everything, and your only sustainable advantage is how human your organization actually is.

EQ. Leadership. Trust. Culture. Values. Connection.

The companies automating intelligence instead of chaos are buying back human bandwidth for the work that actually matters. Everyone else is just creating expensive noise.

These weren't "AI implementations." They were operational transformations that earned the right to use AI.

Why Danielle LaFleur?

Global keynote speaker and Founder of EasyAsPie.AI, Danielle, cuts through AI hype with honest diagnosis, then delivers practical systems leaders can implement immediately. She tells uncomfortable truths about where businesses actually are, then gives them the roadmap to get where they need to be.

The bottom line:

The 2026 IWD theme asks everyone to give more. Danielle reframes it: Stop giving AI your chaos. Build operational intelligence first. Then gain the freedom to lead with humanity in a world where machines can handle everything else.

The post-labor economy isn't something to fear. It's the biggest opportunity in a generation for leaders who prepare their operations now. When you build businesses worthy of AI, you don't just survive the shift - you dominate it.

Book Danielle LaFleur, and your audience won't just leave aware of the problem. They leave equipped, energized, and ready to build operations that turn AI from expensive chaos into a competitive advantage.

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