Speaker Spotlight: Abigail Posner – Keynote Speaker on AI, Human Creativity, and the Expansiveness Edge

07 Jul Speaker Spotlight: Abigail Posner – Keynote Speaker on AI, Human Creativity, and the Expansiveness Edge

Abigail Posner spent 13 years at Google – most recently as Director of U.S. Creative Works – leading a multidisciplinary team that developed AI-powered content and advertising strategies for YouTube’s top global brands. She is also a Harvard-trained cultural anthropologist. That combination is rare, and it gives her keynotes something most AI speakers cannot offer: a rigorous, research-grounded framework for understanding what makes human creativity irreplaceable in an era of intelligent machines. Collaborative Agency Group represents Abigail Posner for keynote engagements.

Why Event Planners Book Abigail Posner

Most keynote speakers on AI approach the topic from one of two directions: the technologist who explains what AI can do, or the futurist who predicts what it will do next. Abigail Posner takes a third path. She approaches AI through the lens of cultural anthropology and neuroscience to answer the question that matters most to the leaders in her audiences: what do I need to develop in myself and my team to remain indispensable as AI becomes more capable?

Her answer – grounded in decades of research and real-world experience building creative strategies for the world’s largest brands – is that the competitive edge belongs to people who can think expansively, connect disciplines, and generate ideas that no algorithm can replicate. Her work has been recognized with the United Nations Media Impact Award and featured in The New York Times, Forbes, and Fast Company.

Before Google, Posner served as Executive Vice President of Brand Strategy at Publicis New York and Strategy Team Director at DDB New York. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in social anthropology.

Abigail Posner’s Keynote Topics

Your Expansiveness Edge: Harnessing the Untapped Combinations Within You
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 is not about bringing your whole self to work. It is a fundamentally different game. Posner’s Expansiveness Framework gives leaders a clear, actionable architecture for unlocking human potential: identifying the unexpected intersections between their background, disciplines, passions, and lived experience, and activating those intersections to produce ideas that are genuinely unreplicable. Audiences leave with hands-on exercises to ignite their personal Expansiveness Edge immediately.

Wired to Create: Tap Your Innate Creativity to Drive Bolder Ideas and Bigger Breakthroughs
Too many people believe creativity belongs to someone else. They are wrong. In this keynote, Posner draws on cultural anthropology, neuroscience, and AI-powered analysis to show every person in the room how to unlock their innate creative potential. The central insight – that in an age of AI, distinctly human creativity has become the defining competitive advantage – is backed by research and illustrated through real-world business examples that land with audiences across every industry and function.

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. Posner reframes AI not as a threat to human creativity but as the latest in a long human tradition of using tools to expand what we are capable of. She gives audiences a concrete framework for deploying AI as a creative force multiplier – not to replace their boldest thinking, but to take it further than was ever possible before. This keynote is particularly effective for audiences that have already adopted AI tools and are ready to move past the basics.

Best Fit: Audiences and Events

Abigail Posner is a strong fit for corporate leadership conferences, innovation summits, marketing and advertising events, and technology-focused executive gatherings. She is especially effective with audiences that are already working with AI and need a fresh, human-centered framework for thinking about what they bring to the table that the tools cannot. Her background at Google gives her instant credibility with technology-savvy audiences, while her anthropological lens makes her content accessible and relevant to non-technical leaders.

The Bottom Line

Abigail Posner answers the question every leader is quietly asking in the age of AI: what is my edge now? Her answer is rigorous, practical, and genuinely inspiring – grounded in 13 years at the intersection of technology and human creativity at Google, and in decades of anthropological research into how people think, connect, and generate breakthrough ideas. For organizations navigating AI-driven change and looking for a framework that goes beyond the hype, Posner delivers.