
The biggest threat to organizational performance isn’t AI. It’s underutilized people. The system that produced their best people was designed to make them reliable. In the age of AI, reliable is exactly what’s being replaced.
After Harvard Law and an early career on Wall Street, Sarah Carlson walked away to live in a tent in Haiti — not because she failed, but because she needed to know what it looks like to fully use your gifts. She spent the next decade leading professional development and teaching at Duke and Emory, watching the same formation failure she’d escaped play out in thousands of talented people in real time.
Nobody was teaching the skills to fix it. So she built the framework herself. In her book, "The Five Principles of Effective Self-Advocacy," she provides a systemic diagnosis of what high achievement culture costs us and a practical path to reclaiming it.
Carlson speaks to leaders and organizations ready to stop leaving their best people half-deployed — and her audiences leave with the language, clarity, and tools to do something about it immediately.
“I walked out knowing exactly how to make my mark in my organization — and finally feeling empowered to do it.” — Paula Feldmeier, Macon, Georgia
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