Stacey Hanke Inc
Share
Stacey Hanke is a Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker, executive coach, business leader and author of Influence Elevated: Maximizing Your Connections, Monday to Monday®. Executive presence and communications expert, Stacey Hanke, is a National Speaker’s Association CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame and Certified Speaking Professional playing a pivotal role in how influence shapes leaders and prompts people to cr
Stop talking to data points.
Start talking to humans.
AI can write your talking points.
It can polish your emails.
It can prepare your messaging.
What it cannot do is create impact.
Impact is human.
Eye connection.
Intentional pauses.
Listening without distraction.
Adapting in the moment.
Research from PwC found that 82% of employees want more human interaction at work, not less.
As communication becomes more automated, influence becomes more personal.
The leaders people remember Monday to Monday® are the ones who make others feel seen, heard and valued.
Leaders love to believe results are proof of influence.
“We’re profitable.”
“My team respects me.”
“I’m a strong communicator.”
Maybe.
Yet profitability does not automatically equal trust.
Authority does not equal connection.
Talking does not equal influence.
Here's how you know for sure.
05/13/2026
AI is moving fast.
The companies winning right now are not the ones replacing human connection. They are the ones elevating it.
Loved partnering with Allego Inc. — an INC. 500 company and leader in AI-powered sales enablement — for a keynote focused on one of the most important conversations happening in business today:
How do we embrace AI without losing the human side of influence?
Their CEO, Yuchun Lee, said it perfectly: “AI prepares us for the conversation. It doesn’t replace it.”
Exactly.
AI can help you move faster.
It can sharpen your ideas.
It can prepare your messaging.
Yet your executive presence, your trustworthiness and your ability to connect with another human being?
That still comes down to you.
The future of leadership is not AI versus human connection.
It is leaders who know how to combine both, Monday to Monday®.
Special thanks to Mark Magnacca, President & Co-Founder; Erik Fowler, COO/CRO and Yuchun Lee, CEO, for allowing me to be a part of their innovative and thoughtful event.
Most people don’t listen to understand.
They listen to respond.
To defend.
To control the conversation.
To prove they’re the smartest person in the room.
Your listeners know the difference.
Click here to claim your Sponsored Listing.
Category
Contact the business
Telephone
Website
Address
Chicago, IL
