Beyond AI: The Human Skills Organizations Need Most Right Now
The human capabilities leaders and HR need to strengthen over the next three years
November 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM EST | Live Online
AI can add capability. It does not, by itself, turn capability into coordinated performance.
Join Dr. Rachel Cubas-Wilkinson for a practical webinar on the leadership, communication, and team-effectiveness skills that determine whether your organization gets real value from its technology investments.
A faster car doesn't guarantee a winning team
Imagine your organization is a racing team.
You have a driver setting direction, a pit crew bringing expertise and execution, and a car equipped with powerful technology.
But a powerful car, a skilled driver, and a talented crew do not automatically make a winning team. The difference is how they work together.
- ✓Does the driver listen when the crew spots a problem?
- ✓Can the crew raise a concern without hesitation?
- ✓Is communication clear when conditions change?
- ✓Does everyone understand the plan—and know when to adapt it?
8 leadership gaps that could hold your organization back
This webinar connects AI adoption with the human capabilities leaders and teams need to work effectively together.
Who this webinar is for
HR and People leaders
Learning and development professionals
Executives and senior leaders
Managers and team leaders
Your presenter
Dr. Rachel Cubas-Wilkinson
Research from MIT, McKinsey, Deloitte, Gallup, Harvard, Korn Ferry, Prosci, the World Economic Forum, and others converges on a single finding: in AI-augmented work, human capability — not AI capability — is the primary differentiator of team performance, and the availability of these skills is not keeping up with the needs of the modern workplace.
Dr. Rachel Cubas-Wilkinson has spent her career at that intersection. As Founder and Lead Consultant of OptimizeTeamwork.com, she has worked with hundreds of Fortune 1000, government, and education organizations navigating new technology adoption, mergers and acquisitions, new team formation, culture transformations, and shifts in strategy, process, and operations.
Her work has supported teams at AbbVie, A.O. Smith, Amazon, Databricks, Dell, Dollar Tree, Erdrich, Florida Health, Gen II Fund Services, Hermès, Hilton, Humane World for Animals, Prime Finance, the National Business Aviation Association, SciSure, and more.
Across every engagement, the pattern has been consistent. The leaders whose teams embrace change are not the ones with the best tools, the biggest budgets, or the most advanced AI. They are the ones who have built the human infrastructure to adapt successfully — psychological safety, emotional intelligence, ethical judgment, adaptive sense-making, change leadership, and a coaching mindset.
OptimizeTeamwork.com exists to close that gap through validated personality and behavioral assessments — DiSC®, Myers-Briggs® (MBTI®), Emotional Quotient (EQ-i 2.0®), CliftonStrengths®, TKI Conflict Modes®, and more — and high-impact leadership and team development workshops that build the human infrastructure and durable skills needed now and in a Human-AI world.
Credentials: Doctorate in Transformational Leadership and Change; Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership; Graduate Specialization in Adult Learning Methods & Curriculum; Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Management. She was recognized as an exemplary presenter by Training Magazine Network, honored with the Gamechangers: Introverts to Watch in 2026 award by HushLoudly, served on the board of the Peter F. Drucker Global Leadership Society — SF Chapter, and received the Praxis Award for Exemplary Leadership from the Catherine T. MacArthur School of Leadership at Palm Beach Atlantic University.
Formerly, Dr. Rachel served as a Vice President for The Myers-Briggs Company and as Head of Learning Services at Pearson. She launched OptimizeTeamwork.com after 15 years of successful consulting.
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Date: November 18, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM EST
Format: Live online
