Not an AI story.
A shift in perspective.
Margôt van Brakel challenges how we see humans and AI, showing how technology creates value by strengthening human potential.
As long as humans and AI are treated as interchangeable, real value remains out of reach.
Margôt brings the perspective shift that allows technology and humanity to move forward together.
Human
challenges & opportunities
What this time calls for
AI is high on the agenda.
The pressure to accelerate is significant.
At the same time, uncertainty arises among people.
What does this mean for my work, my role, my value?
Many organizations sense that something is off,
yet lack a clear human compass to provide direction.
perspective
A different starting point
If AI is a game changer, it requires more than technology alone.
It calls for stepping back, bringing people along, and first setting direction.
Not accelerating for the sake of acceleration,
but slowing down in order to move forward more deliberately.
In my keynotes, I reframe AI — not as a technical issue, but as a fundamental question about people, purpose and the future of work.
impact
impact
What the keynotes set in motion
The keynotes deliberately introduce a different pace.
Thinking slow in a time that mainly pushes toward thinking fast.
Creating space to think instead of reacting immediately.
Space for strategy and policy. And for personal reflection.
The conversation shifts:
- from technology to people and meaning,
- from acceleration to direction,
- from isolated initiatives to a shared, supported movement.
Margot was a fantastic speaker at an event about the impact of AI on the creative sector at A Lab on March 28. Her keynote was lively, inspiring, and engaging from start to finish. She managed to involve the audience in her story and held their attention with her enthusiastic presentation.
Arpad Gerecsey
Directeur / Managing Director A-Lab
Margot has done extensive preparation to tailor her presentation to suit us, which felt very professional. It didn’t feel like a lecture she delivers exactly the same way every time.
Tulan Leth
Head of CEO Office Advisense - Stockholm
Margot is an insightful and passionate speaker. The speaking itself she has raised to be an art by itself, but more importantly her message is spot on in todays disconnected world. I have asked Margot to inspire my entire team and her contribution to the phase that we were in as a company was a message that needed to be heard. From one heart to another Margot’s speech inspired my team and left a message that still resonates today.
Dirk Beljaarts
You scored an 8.2. Compliments, as it is truly a critical audience. Your keynote was rated as the most relevant!
Pleuni Maassen
Management Support Event
I got goosebumps when I listened to you. What you say, and how you say it…
How you emphasize that everything is shifting, and what it takes for that, no one can say that better than you. Vulnerable and very powerful. From your heart.
Yolanda Eijgensteijn
Margot is an inspirational speaker who addresses you straight from the heart. She understands how to move her audience: Empowering, Energetic and Informative at the same time. Her topic is an issue we have to deal with every day, so in my opinion she should get as much attention as possible to tell her story all over the world.
Charles van Goch
CEO Mise en Place
Margot has taken ample time to give all hotel concierges a positive feeling during our Les Clefs d’Or meeting about the future. After her inspiring story, they go back to work with great enthusiasm to bring hospitality to an even higher level.
Ron Stoevelaar
President Les Clefs d’Or
Publications
Further reflection after the keynote
In my publications, I explore the human perspective and themes that also lie at the heart of my keynotes. On being human in a changing world, leadership, connection, and the role of technology as context.
Not manuals or ready-made solutions, but perspective and language for questions that remain.
For those who wish to read, listen, or reflect further after a keynote.