From AI Overwhelm to AI Advantage: Building Your Leadership “Second Team” with AI Agents

Date: May 27th Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm (ET) Format: Virtual Leadership Lab Program: AI, Digital Skills & Technology for Women Leaders The Global Women in Leadership Alliance™ invites women leaders, founders, and business owners to a practical, hands-on leadership lab on the technology quietly reshaping how the most effective leaders operate: AI agents. Unlike one-off prompts or chatbots, AI agents are autonomous, goal-oriented digital teammates that can take on complex, multi-step work on your behalf — scanning information, coordinating workflows, and preparing you for high-stakes moments — while you remain firmly in the driver’s seat on every decision that matters. Women leaders today are being asked to deliver more, influence further, and lead through constant change — often without proportional increases in time, team, or budget. This session is designed for leaders who know AI matters but are tired of the hype, overwhelmed by the tools, and ready for a clear, confident, values-aligned starting point grounded in real leadership scenarios — not generic tech demos. In this interactive 60-minute lab, you will learn what truly sets AI agents apart from basic AI assistants, see live examples of agents working behind the scenes for women leaders in executive, founder, and operator roles, and walk through a guided exercise to design your own AI agent for a real situation you are facing right now. Together, we will also explore the guardrails for responsible use — so you can experiment boldly while staying aligned with your values, your leadership brand, and your organization’s expectations. In this session, you will:

• Understand the meaningful difference between AI assistants and AI agents — and why agents are becoming a defining leadership capability for women who want to lead at scale without burning out.
• Discover practical, leadership-grade use cases for AI agents as your “second team” — from stakeholder intelligence and board-meeting preparation to project follow-through, executive briefings, and protecting your focus for the work only you can do.
• Design a personal AI Agent Brief that clearly defines your agent’s purpose, inputs, actions, outputs, and guardrails — ready to pilot in the next 30 days.
• Leave with one low-risk, high-value AI agent experiment you can implement immediately to reclaim time, sharpen your decisions, and extend your leadership impact.

Event Date: Thursday, March 27, 2026

Time Zones:
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (CT)
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM (ET)
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (NT)
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM (PT)
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM (UK)
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM (Kenya Time)

Join us for what promises to be a powerful and forward-looking leadership conversation at the intersection of AI, innovation, and leadership.

Who should attend: Women leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, and business owners who are ready to move beyond AI hype and harness AI agents as a strategic lever — to lead with greater clarity, confidence, and capacity, without adding one more thing to an already full plate.   Trish Uhl – Trish Uhl is an AI transformation and learning innovation leader helping organizations move AI from experimentation to everyday, trustworthy Human × AI collaboration — at enterprise scale and under real-world constraints. She serves as Digital Product Manager, Generative AI Enterprise Solutions at a Fortune 300 financial services firm, where she leads enterprise generative AI initiatives in one of the most tightly regulated environments in business — spanning production applications, agentic systems, and AI capability building for thousands of associates. It is work that sits at the intersection of innovation, risk, and human readiness, and it informs every insight she brings to the stage. A Microsoft Certified AI Transformation Leader and AI Business Professional, Trish is the founder of global consulting firm Owl’s Ledge, where she partners with executives and learning leaders to harness AI agents to revolutionize how work gets done — and how the workforce grows alongside it. At the Association for Talent Development’s inaugural AI Intensive, she was selected as the sole speaker on AI agents, equipping L&D leaders across industries to build human–AI capability at scale and measure impact in AI-augmented environments. Trish is the author of Adaptive Humans + AI Agents: Sink, Swim or Swarm and contributing author of the “Leveraging Artificial Intelligence” chapter in ATD’s Handbook for Measuring and Evaluating Training (2nd Edition). Across her work, her mission is consistent: help organizations thrive, help humans flourish, and together create a world that works better.   .