“The Nonlinear Career: Thriving in the Age of Agentic Work” with Nadia Hansen, Digital Transformative Executive, Global Public Sector at Salesforce.
The career ladder is dead — and AI just finished the job. For decades, professional advice assumed a straight line: pick a lane, climb it, retire from it. But as agentic AI reshapes what “a job” even means, the people who thrive won’t be the ones who climbed the highest — they’ll be the ones who moved the smartest.
This session is for anyone standing in the middle of a pivot: students entering a job market that barely resembles the one their parents knew, professionals watching their industries get rewritten by AI, and founders building companies with tools that didn’t exist two years ago. Drawing on a career that moved from art school to computer science to 12+ years as a public-sector technology executive to founder and AI strategist, this talk makes the case that nonlinear paths aren’t a liability to explain away — they’re the actual training ground for adaptability, the one skill AI can’t replace.
Attendees will leave with a practical framework for auditing their own skills against where the job market is actually heading, reframing “gaps” and pivots as assets on a resume or in an interview, and building the kind of career resilience that doesn’t depend on any single job title staying static.
About the speaker:
Nadia Hansen is a keynote speaker and AI strategist who helps executives and organizations navigate the future of work. She serves as Global GTM AI Strategist at Salesforce, focusing on the public sector, and is adjunct faculty at UNLV and Nevada State University. Before joining the private sector, she served as CIO of Clark County, Nevada, overseeing a $300M+ technology portfolio serving 2.3 million residents. She’s been recognized as a Top 50 AI Leader, spoken at CES 2026 and Dreamforce, and been featured in Inc. Magazine. She also publishes Hack to the Future, a newsletter reaching 3,400+ leaders on AI and the future of work.