Lauren
Wu
Founder & CEO / Adjunct Professor of Law at Heart Led Leadership / Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
"Still Here, Still Working: Designing Accessible Leadership with AI and Empathy"
"Still Here, Still Working: Designing Accessible Leadership with AI and Empathy"
Thu May 14 - 6:00 PM EDT/New York (See in local time)
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"Still Here, Still Working: Designing Accessible Leadership with AI and Empathy"
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"Still Here, Still Working: Designing Accessible Leadership with AI and Empathy"
"Still Here, Still Working: Designing Accessible Leadership with AI and Empathy"
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Session: Still Here, Still Working: Designing Accessible Leadership with AI and Empathy
As organizations face increasing pressure to move faster and deliver more, traditional leadership models built on constant capacity are showing their limits. This session explores how disability — particularly invisible disability — challenges conventional assumptions about productivity, presence, and performance, and how leaders can respond through better system design rather than individual resilience.Drawing on lived experience recovering from a major health event, occupational therapy principles, and the practical use of AI as an accessibility tool, this talk reframes leadership as an act of design. Attendees will learn how AI can reduce cognitive load and support sustainable performance, how leaders can proactively respond to external pressures without sacrificing psychological safety, and how allyship can be embedded into everyday leadership practices without requiring disclosure.
This session offers leaders practical strategies to build more adaptive, inclusive, and high-performing workplaces — where people can continue to contribute even when capacity changes.
Key Takeaways
- Leadership Is System Design, Not Personal Endurance. Learn how occupational therapy principles can inform leadership models that support fluctuating capacity and long-term effectiveness.
- AI as an Accessibility and Performance Tool. Understand how AI can reduce cognitive load, protect judgment, and enable sustained contribution — particularly for employees with invisible disabilities.
- Responding to Pressure Without Breaking People. Gain leadership strategies to manage urgency and expectations while preserving trust, engagement, and retention.
- Psychological Safety as a Capacity Multiplier. See how safety reduces hidden labor, improves decision-making, and strengthens organizational resilience.
- Allyship Through Leadership Design. Learn how to support employees without requiring disclosure, exceptions, or proof — by embedding flexibility and accessibility into everyday leadership practices.
Bio
Lauren Wu, Esq., CIPP/US, is a keynote speaker and former healthcare privacy executive who has spent her career inside systems where power is rarely loud, but always felt.For more than a decade, Lauren held senior leadership roles at healthcare and life sciences companies including Evidation Health, Roche Molecular Solutions, and Genomic Health (now Exact Sciences). Her work focused on privacy, regulation, and ethical decision-making—often behind the scenes—where policies, timelines, and incentives quietly shape who bears the cost of success.
Lauren is a writer and speaker on leadership, ethics, and technology, the author of forthcoming children’s books on privacy and digital literacy (2026), and a recent adjunct instructor at Northwestern University School of Law.
