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Abigail Posner

Inspire teams to think expansively in an AI-driven world with Abigail Posner, former Director of U.S. Creative Works at Google. Abigail helps leaders harness AI to amplify human creativity and deliver impact that's unmistakably theirs. Founder of the Human Code Company, recipient of the UN Media Impact Award, and a highly sought-after speaker at conferences and business gatherings worldwide.

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Abigail Posner

Abigail Posner

New York City, United States

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  • Google's former Director of U.S. Creative Works
  • Magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University in social anthropology
  • Pioneered the Humanizing Digital series, exploring our emotional relationship with technology
Abigail Posner is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University in social anthropology and a 13-year veteran of Google, where she led U.S. Creative Works. Before Google, she served as Executive Vice President of Brand Strategy at Publicis New York and Strategy Team Director at DDB New York. She brings a rare combination of cultural anthropology, creative strategy, and technological insight to help organizations harness AI to amplify human creativity. At Google, Abigail led the development of data-driven AI-powered advertising and branded content strategies for YouTube's top global advertisers, pioneered Humanizing Digital, an anthropology-based thought leadership series exploring our emotional relationship with technology, and helped guide a cultural transformation initiative for Google's 4,000+ sales professionals. She is now the founder of the Human Code Company, working with senior leaders to help them use their unique perspectives to lead with more impact. Abigail's keynotes center on three interconnected ideas. Firstly, that creativity is an innate human capacity, ready to be activated. Secondly, that every leader has an expansiveness edge, an untapped ability to turn their experiences into ideas no competitor can replicate. And finally, that AI is not a threat to human imagination but a force multiplier for it, freeing people to do their boldest, most original thinking. Abigail's work has been recognized with the United Nations Media Impact Award, and her ideas have been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, and CNBC. She shares her thinking at conferences and business gatherings in keynotes worldwide as well as through her Human Code podcast and writing in outlets such as The Drum. Book Abigail to help your organization unlock creativity, innovation, and the human advantage in our AI world.

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Your Expansiveness Edge
Abigail Posner explores how leaders can remain distinctive in a world where AI is rapidly reshaping work and decision-making. Drawing on anthropology, creative strategy, and her experience inside Google, she reveals how the most impactful leaders combine disciplines, experiences, and perspectives to generate ideas competitors cannot replicate. Through storytelling, business examples, and practical frameworks, Abigail demonstrates how expansive thinking unlocks innovation, strengthens leadership, and enables organizations to identify opportunities that conventional strategy often overlooks.
Wired To Create
Abigail Posner challenges the common belief that creativity belongs only to a talented few. Drawing on insights from anthropology, neuroscience, and her career shaping global brands, she shows how creativity is a universal human capability that organizations often fail to activate. With practical tools and cross-disciplinary perspectives, Abigail reveals how curiosity, observation, and collaborative thinking fuel innovation, helping teams generate bold ideas and develop creative confidence in an increasingly automated world.
Ingenuity Unleashed With AI
Abigail Posner reframes artificial intelligence as a tool that expands human imagination rather than replacing it. Drawing on years working at the intersection of technology, advertising, and culture, she explores how AI can remove cognitive overload and amplify creative thinking. Through real-world examples and practical frameworks, Abigail shows how organizations can combine human intuition, curiosity, and emotional intelligence with intelligent tools to develop more ambitious ideas and solve complex challenges in new ways.

Why we recommend booking Abigail

Abigail's Harvard background in social anthropology, combined with 13 years as Google's Director of U.S. Creative Works and senior roles at Publicis and DDB, gives her a genuinely distinctive take on how AI and human creativity work together. She shows leaders how to use AI as a creative force multiplier, one that removes cognitive overload and frees people to think bigger, bolder, and more originally than ever before. Clients value her ability to give teams a practical, human-centered framework for unleashing their best thinking.

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Trusted by LPL Financial, Oslo Business Forum, Delta Community Retirement and Investment Services, Electric Power Engineers, Purus Wealth

Testimonials

Everything you passed on to us truly resonated with me. I have been in financial services for 35 years and I’m always looking for ways to be more creative and expand and grow my view into the business. You’re an inspiration, a world of constant movement and I want to say thank you for the jolt of energy.

Director, Client Experience, Purus Wealth

Excellent job on your presentation today…I learned a lot and have some confidence in my creative abilities more now after listening to your ideas about not being intimidated and thinking about your unique concept of embracing expansiveness.

Wealth Advisor, LPL Financial

It was an incredible pleasure to have [Abigail] here. People really loved her presentation and everyone who had the pleasure of meeting Abigail pointed out what a great and positive person she was…It’s been an honor hosting her.

Oslo Business Forum

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Abigail Posner structures her keynotes around three interconnected frameworks — that creativity is an innate human capacity, that every leader holds an untapped expansiveness edge, and that AI functions as a force multiplier for human imagination — delivered through cross-disciplinary storytelling drawn from anthropology, neuroscience, and her 13-year tenure at Google.

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Abigail Posner's sessions address distinctive leadership in an AI-driven landscape, the universal nature of human creativity, and the use of artificial intelligence as an amplifier of imagination rather than a replacement for it. She spent 13 years at Google leading U.S. Creative Works, where she developed data-driven AI-powered strategies for YouTube's top global advertisers and pioneered the Humanizing Digital thought leadership series, and her work has been recognised with the United Nations Media Impact Award.

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