Sustainable human performance and innovative work models in the age of AI

Unleashing human creativity and transforming workplaces for thriving, innovative, and equitable professional lives

These sessions explore how human imagination, systematic change, and progressive work design can revolutionize how we work and live.

Grace's presentations challenge audiences to reconsider fundamental assumptions about creativity, habits, and workplace equity. Drawing from her unique background as both a professional musician and organizational leader, she reveals how the principles that create world-class performers can revolutionize individual growth and collective transformation.

Key Questions Grace Addresses

  • How can we reclaim and develop our creative superpowers when AI handles routine cognitive tasks?

  • What can musicians teach us about building habits that create extraordinary results?

  • Why do individual flexibility policies perpetuate inequality, and how do collective solutions drive both equity and performance?

  • How do we design workplaces where human imagination and innovation flourish alongside technological advancement?

  • What does it take to transform organizational culture through coordinated small changes that create massive impact?

Core Themes Grace Explores

  • Creativity as Human Advantage – Reclaiming our natural imaginative abilities and using AI to amplify, not replace, human creativity

  • The Practice Mindset – How deliberate, consistent habits create compound growth and breakthrough performance

  • Collective Solutions for Systemic Change – Why organization-wide policies create equity and excellence better than individual accommodations

  • Progressive Work Design – Building cultures where shorter workweeks, creative time, and human potential drive competitive advantage

  • Sustainable Transformation – The musician's approach to embedding lasting change through disciplined, collaborative practice

Why This Resonates Now AI can replicate many cognitive tasks, making creativity, empathy, and innovative problem-solving our greatest competitive advantages. Grace shows audiences how to cultivate these skills individually and collectively, creating workplaces where people thrive and organizations excel.

Ideal Audience

  • Business leaders seeking to build creative, inclusive, high-performance cultures

  • Organizations implementing AI strategies while maximizing human potential

  • Teams and individuals committed to sustainable personal and professional growth

  • Advocates for progressive work design and gender equality in the workplace

About Grace Tallon Grace Tallon is a visionary speaker who believes creativity is humanity's ultimate superpower. As an advocate for work time reduction and collective flexibility, she champions progressive workplace policies that advance both equity and excellence. Grace translates the discipline and collaborative principles of professional music-making into practical strategies for individual mastery and organizational transformation, inspiring audiences to reclaim their creative potential and design work cultures that truly serve human flourishing.

Talk Examples

  • Creativity Wins: Reclaiming Human Imagination in the Age of AI

  • Practice Makes Progress: What Musicians Know About Mastering Change

  • Beyond Individual Flexibility: How Collective Work Time Reduction Drives Gender Equality and Organizational Excellence