The Human Edge
AI is everywhere. The advantage is human.
Welcome To The Edge
Rebecca Maklad is a motivational speaker who helps people stay human at speed. She works with organisations who know that in an AI-driven economy, human capability is the advantage that lasts. The Human Edge is how she does it: seven edges that keep us steady as the pace rises.
When speed becomes normal, clarity becomes fragile. The Human Edge brings the picture back.
Why does The Human Edge matter in an AI world?
AI is raising the pace of everything. Tools multiply. Noise increases. Time to think disappears.
When speed becomes normal, clarity becomes fragile. Decisions wobble. Teams lose alignment. Momentum leaks. The risk of acceleration isn’t technical. It’s human.
And that changes where advantage comes from.
When everyone has access to the same AI, technology stops setting organisations apart. It becomes the baseline. What differentiates performance is how people stay clear, connected and decisive as conditions keep shifting.
That response shows up in human judgement. In coordination under pressure. In teams that move together instead of fragmenting. Not because the tools improved, but because the humans stayed oriented.
AI can upgrade technology. Only humans can integrate it.
That’s the Human Edge.
AI can upgrade the tech.
Only humans upgrade the behaviour. Miss that link and nothing sticks. The Human Edge makes it stick.
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Keynote Topics
The Human Edge
We are already in acceleration. AI has lifted the pace of everything. When speed becomes normal, technology stops being the advantage. People become it. AI makes the work faster, but it also makes the world harder to read. The pace outruns our clarity. And when clarity slips, so do performance, resilience, innovation and meaning.
The Human Edge is the counterweight. Clarity in noise. Creativity when the map breaks. Adaptability in the unknown. Trust under pressure. Presence in the rush. Meaning that holds its shape. These are not soft skills. They are structural. They keep organisations steady and turn pressure into progress.
In this session, the message is simple. AI gives you speed. Humans give you direction. The Human Edge helps teams rise with the pace instead of being swept away by it.
The Purpose Edge
“Know your why.” “Follow your North Star.” Useful ideas for a slower world. Not for this one. AI is rewriting roles, change never stops and global pressures are reshaping what leadership demands. In that reality, a fixed purpose snaps the moment you need it.
The Purpose Edge treats purpose as a living system. Through the DNA of Purpose framework, purpose becomes something that evolves with the moment. Just as DNA adapts for survival, purpose adapts for context.
The framework distils into three practices: choosing what matters today, creating meaning through connection and aligning action with values.
These practices make purpose usable. They speed up decisions, strengthen culture and keep leaders steady in change. This keynote is for organisations that need purpose that works in real time, not once a year on a slide.
Insights From The Edge
About Rebecca
Rebecca Maklad is the creator of The Human Edge, a keynote designed to help people navigate the fast shifts redefining what it means to be human in an AI-shaped world. She breaks down disruption with clarity and practicality, showing audiences the human capacities that strengthen performance when the world accelerates. Her work equips people to stay adaptive, creative and connected in environments defined by constant change.
Her career includes supporting and advising leading futurists and authorities within the speaking industry, founding a collective for social entrepreneurs, and directing a global media and thought-leadership organisation that turned fast-moving scientific and technological progress into practical human insight for clients worldwide.
She is also the founder of The DNA of Purpose™, a system that turns purpose into lived practice. As host of The DNA of Purpose podcast, ranked in the top five percent globally, she has interviewed more than 120 thinkers on purpose, human evolution and future-ready leadership.
Rebecca brings clarity, imagination and humanity to how people navigate change, helping progress grow with them rather than race ahead of them.