Career Confidence

The question we all need to ask all the time is: who's missing? Whose voice is not currently represented?

AI is reshaping the world. And while the headlines swing between hype and fear, most women are asking just one question: What does this mean for me?

This episode is about what happens when AI makes decisions about people's lives and nobody can explain why. It's about accountability. It's about bias. And it's about governance, not as a handbrake, but as the thing that lets us move faster, safely.

In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie and Lou sit down with Luli Adeyemo, Executive Director of Tech Diversity Foundation, award winning leader with over 30 years in tech, and former BMX world champion.

Luli has spent her career asking one question: who's in the room when decisions get made? And right now, when it comes to AI governance, women's voices are dangerously underrepresented. That's not just unfair. It's risky. And it's costing us all.

This is the conversation your organisation isn't having. Yet.

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Learn more here 👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/bold-moves

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📚 The Bold Move: https://www.theboldmovebook.com

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Connect with Georgie:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiehubbard/

🟪 Instagram: http://instagram.com/georgielhubbard

♦️ Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com

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Connect with Lou Compagnone:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/

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Connect with Luli Adeyemo:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luliadeyemo/

♦️ Tech Diversity Foundation: https://techdiversity.org

⭕️ AI Governance Practitioner Course: https://techdiversity.org/ai-governance

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome to AI Ready Women — today's focus: AI governance and why women's voices matter

2:15 Meet Luli Adeyemo — BMX world champion, tech leader, and Executive Director of Tech Diversity Foundation

5:30 From BMX Bandits to tech: Luli's career journey and why being different became her superpower

12:30 Why diversity in AI is different: the scale, the impact, and the risk are at a level we've never seen before

16:00 The football analogy: why we get diversity in sport but not in business

19:30 The pipeline problem: why women can't thrive in tech if the culture isn't set up for them

23:00 The identity crisis: why people outside tech don't see themselves in it, and why that's our industry's fault

27:00 The Apple Card scandal: gender discrimination wasn't the intent, but it was the outcome

30:00 The dermatology AI tool that couldn't detect melanoma on darker skin. Who's responsible when the algorithm fails?

39:00 The Stanford Agents of Chaos paper: autonomous AI that lied, destroyed systems, and leaked data

42:00 The Alibaba AI that created its own hidden communication channel and started mining cryptocurrency

52:00 Final advice for women who are AI fearful: you don't need to code. You need to understand the questions to ask.

Is AI actually a threat to your career — or are you just not reading your market clearly? Here's the 4-question SCAN framework I use with senior women to find out. ⤵️
Most women think the AI threat is whether your job will get automated. But for senior women, women who have spent 15 to 20 years building real experience, that could be the wrong question.

A better question: Am I reading my market clearly enough, or am I the last to know that something shifted?

After 12 years inside my recruitment business, I can tell you this: the women who get caught off guard are never the least capable ones. They're the ones who were too head down doing excellent work to look up and read what the market was asking for.

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See exactly where you're exposed and where to position.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 – The wrong question senior women are asking about AI

0:50 – Why the most capable women get caught off guard

2:15 – Internal feedback vs. market intelligence

3:30 – S: Skills in Demand

5:30 – C: Change Coming

7:15 – A: AI Impact (your "AI-irreplaceable" layer)

9:30 – N: New Problems Emerging

11:15 – The 30-minute SCAN exercise

12:45 – Get your free real-time SCAN
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The SCAN Framework: your 4-question career audit for the age of AI:

S – Skills in Demand
How closely does your current skillset match what employers are actually asking for in roles at your level right now? Not 12 months ago. Now.

C – Change Coming
How clearly can you see where your function is heading over the next 2-3 years, and what does that mean for someone at your level?

A – AI Impact
Which parts of your role could AI do adequately right now? And which parts genuinely still require your judgment, your relationships, and your lived experience?

N – New Problems Emerging
Are you positioning yourself to solve the new problems your industry is now facing? Or are you still primarily known for solving the old ones?
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Your Next Step:

Before you close this video, open a blank document and write down the four letters: S-C-A-N.

Next to S, write down three skills or capability phrases that keep appearing in roles at your level. Ask yourself: do they appear on your LinkedIn profile?

Next to C, write down one sentence on where your function is heading in the next few years. If you can't write a sentence, there's a gap.

Next to A, write down your three AI-irreplaceable value points. The things you bring that AI cannot replicate.

Next to N, write down one new problem emerging in your industry, and one way your existing experience connects to it.

That's your SCAN framework. It will take less than 30 minutes and it will tell you more about where you're exposed than any amount of generic career advice ever could.
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✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator ✨

Learn more here 👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/bold-moves
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📚 The Bold Move: https://www.theboldmovebook.com
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Connect with Georgie:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiehubbard/

🟪 Instagram: http://instagram.com/georgielhubbard

♦️ Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com
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This is not about fear. This is about being the woman who reads her market clearly before the market has to read it for her.

The bold move is not a big dramatic career pivot. It's something quieter and harder. It's the decision to stop operating on the assumption that doing excellent work inside your organisation is sufficient.

You need to look up from your desk deliberately, regularly, and read what the market around you is actually asking for. This is how you stay relevant — and chosen — in the age of AI.

The women I watch get chosen repeatedly across their careers are not always the most experienced. They're the ones who have the clearest market intelligence.
That's available to you. And you can start right now.

Georgie 💜

The Pope just signed his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and it's about AI. His warning to the world: protect the human person before artificial intelligence erodes our work, our relationships, and our agency

While tech companies race to build agents and automate everything, the Vatican did something unexpected. It created a commission on AI, not to celebrate the technology, but to protect human dignity. And when Pope Leo XIV presented the document, he did it standing beside a co-founder of the AI company Anthropic. What an unexpected twist.

So what does this actually mean for women navigating AI at work right now?
In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie and Lou sit down with Julianne Hickey, a social justice leader, AI governance expert, and former director of Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand.

Julianne has met Pope Francis twice, worked in Gaza and Palestine responding to humanitarian disasters, and now leads AI strategy for a major government organisation in New Zealand.

This is a conversation about what happens when we stop asking what AI can do, and start asking what it should do. And why the future of AI isn't just a technical question. It's a spiritual one.

(Recorded just before the encyclical's public release on 25 May 2026.)
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✨ 60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator ✨
Learn more here 👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/bold-moves
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📚 The Bold Move: https://www.theboldmovebook.com
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Connect with Georgie:
🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiehubbard/
🟪 Instagram: http://instagram.com/georgielhubbard
♦️ Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com
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Connect with Lou Compagnone:
🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/
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Connect with Julianne Hickey:
🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliannehickey/
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CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome to AI Ready Women, and the Pope's unexpected move on AI
2:40 Julianne's journey: Zimbabwe, Ubuntu, and "I am who I am because of who we all are"
4:15 From London consulting to humanitarian work in Gaza and Palestine: power, dignity, and who gets left behind
7:00 Inside Empire of AI: the extraction problem and AI's concentration of power
8:15 Te Hiku Media: the Māori organisation that built a language model on one GPU, not thousands
10:30 The Pope's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and human dignity in the age of automation
14:30 The Rome Call and the Builders AI Forum: "What business does the Pope have in AI?"
18:00 What this means if you're not Catholic: agency, power, and why women get left out of the room
22:00 AI agents vs human agency: why the language we use matters more than we think
25:30 The Vatican's AI commission: seven departments, rotating terms, and a cross functional governance model
27:00 Why most organisations treat AI as a tech project when it's a strategic one
30:00 Burnout, fear, and feeling unsafe at work: what leaders get dangerously wrong about productivity and people
32:00 Two companies, opposite bets: cutting graduate hires vs investing in young workers
35:00 Te Whare Tapa Whā: the Māori wellbeing model Julianne uses to stay AI ready
38:00 Final thoughts: making sure AI serves people, not the other way around
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If this episode resonated with you, reach out to Julianne, Lou, and Georgie on LinkedIn. Let us know your biggest takeaway. Share what you're doing to protect human dignity in your work. Tell us how you're making sure AI serves people, not the other way around.

And if you know an incredible woman working in AI, ethics, governance, or social justice who should be on this podcast, send us her name. We want to amplify women's voices. We want representation. We want you in the room.

The future belongs to the women who are ready for it.

Let's make sure that's you.

Georgie 💜

#AIReadyWomen #PopeAI #MagnificaHumanitas #ArtificialIntelligence #WomenInAI #AIEthics #HumanDignity.

Most capable women aren't being passed over because they lack experience. They're being passed over because they can't articulate the problems they solve.

After 12 years sitting on the other side of the hiring table, I'll tell you the truth: the women who get chosen aren't always the most experienced. They're the ones with the clearest story.

In this episode, I break down the 6-step framework I use inside the Bold Move Career Accelerator to help senior women build a positioning story that makes them undeniable.

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Find out where your career is protected and where you're exposed: https://www.georgiehubbard.com/market-readiness

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In this episode:

Why "capable" gets you in the room — but "undeniable" gets you chosen

The three career stories most senior women tell (and why two of them are keeping you invisible)

The IMPACT™ Framework: my six-step process for turning experience into positioning

A real client example — from "I manage complex projects" to two inbound recruiter offers in three weeks

The 10-minute exercise you can do today to start building your story

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📚 The Bold Move book: https://www.theboldmovebook.com

✨ 60-Day Bold Move Career Accelerator: https://www.georgiehubbard.com/bold-moves

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Connect with me:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiehubbard/

Instagram: http://instagram.com/georgielhubbard

Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com

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Chapters:

0:00 — Why experience isn't enough

0:20 — The 3 components of POSITION

1:30 — Why the market rewards legibility, not capability

4:00 — The 3 stories most women are telling

6:30 — The IMPACT™ Framework

9:30 — The 10-minute exercise

10:30 — The bold move

11:00 — Get your free Market Readiness Score

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You are not behind. You are not lacking. You are under-positioned. And that is completely fixable.

Georgie 💜

Pink-collar jobs, admin, customer service, reception, teaching, and nursing are overwhelmingly held by women. They're also the roles most exposed to AI disruption right now. And the data shows women are using AI less than men.

That's the leapfrog risk. And IBM's Chief Technology Officer for Australia and New Zealand wants every woman listening to understand it before the gap gets bigger.

In this episode of AI Ready Women, Georgie Hubbard and Lou Compagnoni sit down with Angelica Veness, the CTO who openly says she can't code, and built her career through human-centred design instead. Angelica breaks down what's actually happening in the AI economy, where women are getting locked out, and the exact steps to move from AI-cautious to AI-curious to AI-queen… starting this week.

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✨60 Day Bold Move Career Accelerator✨

Learn More here 👉 https://www.georgiehubbard.com/bold-moves

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📚 The Bold Move: https://www.theboldmovebook.com

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Connect with Me:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiehubbard/

🟪 Instagram: http://instagram.com/georgielhubbard

♦️Website: https://www.georgiehubbard.com

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Connect with Lou Compagnone:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loucompagnone/

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Connect with Angelica Vaness:

🔵 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelica-veness-9866519/

🟣 Free AI Learning: https://skillsbuild.org

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In Today's Episode:

→ Why "I'm a CTO who can't code" is a strategic position, not a confession

→ The pink-collar exposure: which roles are most at risk and why women hold most of them

→ The leapfrog problem — graduates are entering the workforce already AI-fluent. Mid-career women cannot afford to wait.

→ Why the gender gap in AI isn't about coding skills anymore. It's about who's typing the prompts.

→ The "moments that matter" framework for designing AI that makes work better, not just cheaper

→ How IKEA retrained its entire contact centre as interior designers — and built a $1.4B revenue line doing it

→ Why rigid hiring practices are locking capable women out of the AI economy — and what needs to shift

→ How IBM and Food Ladder are using AI to put healthy food in front of hungry Australian kids

→ The exact starting move: one tool, one buddy, one week. How to begin before you feel ready.

If you've been waiting until you feel "AI ready" before you start, this episode is the reason to begin now.

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CHAPTERS

[00:00] Cold open — "I'm a CTO who can't code"

[00:30] Welcome to AI Ready Women

[01:50] From gym sales to IBM CTO: Angelica's non-linear path

[06:00] Why design thinking is the AI superpower

[09:30] The obligation to use AI, not just design it — and why LLMs are learning male questions

[12:30] SIGNAL 1: Dr Tara Behan's warning — concentrating pain into the human part of the system

[18:30] The moments-that-matter triangulation: executives, employees, customers

[20:00] Lou's Uber nightmare: what bad AI design feels like as a customer

[22:30] Expertise atrophy — what happens when humans stop using the muscle

[25:30] SIGNAL 2: How IKEA reinvented its contact centre as interior designers

[30:30] Pink-collar exposure: what women in task-based roles need to do right now

[36:00] The hiring problem: rigid briefs are locking women out of the AI economy

[42:30] SIGNAL 3: IBM × Food Ladder — AI for good in Australian schools

[48:50] AI Cautious → AI Curious → AI Queen: how to make the shift this week

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If this episode helped you, the kindest thing you can do is share it with one woman who needs to hear it — and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It's how more women find the show. Your bold move is waiting. Go make it.

Georgie 💜