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The World's Leading Practical AI Speaker | Former Technology Leader at Google, McKinsey & Atlassian | CEO of Reinvention Labs & Creator of 'AI & the Future of Everything'
Rahim Hirji
Author of SuperSkills: The Seven Human Skills for the Age of AI (Kogan Page) | Future-of-Work Strategist & Founder of The SuperSkills Intelligence Company | Ex-EtonX & Quizlet
Rahim Hirji is a keynote speaker, strategic advisor, and the author of SuperSkills: The Seven Human Skills for the Age of AI. A future-of-work strategist who spent twenty years in education technology, co-founding EtonX and growing Quizlet, he helps leaders understand how AI changes the work of thinking. Drawing on research with 200+ organizations across 30+ countries, he shows audiences the human skills that matter most in the age of AI.
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Rahim Hirji biography
AI speaker Rahim Hirji is a keynote speaker, strategic advisor, and author whose work addresses one of the most important questions of our time: as artificial intelligence takes over more and more of what we do, what is left that is distinctly, valuably human? His answer is the subject of his book, SuperSkills: The Seven Human Skills for the Age of AI, published by Kogan Page, which argues that in the AI era the bottleneck is no longer output, but human judgment.
In SuperSkills, Hirji identifies the seven human capabilities that become more valuable as machines take over production: curiosity, change readiness, big-picture thinking, empathetic communication, global adaptability, principled innovation, and the augmented mindset. His framework, Drift versus Design, describes how leaders unconsciously hand their judgment to AI one convenient default at a time, and the deliberate choices they can make to reclaim it. It draws on his own research with more than 200 organizations across over 30 countries.
From Education Technology to the Future of Work
Before writing SuperSkills, Hirji spent twenty years building education technology. He founded the skills platform EtonX, scaling it internationally before its acquisition by Eton College, and led Quizlet’s international growth across more than 60 countries, with earlier roles at HarperCollins and Avallain. He now runs The SuperSkills Intelligence Company, an advisory and speaking practice working with leadership teams on how AI changes the work of thinking, and writes Box of Amazing, a weekly newsletter on AI and human capability read by around 25,000 subscribers. His book is endorsed by Harvard Business School’s Karim Lakhani and WIRED UK founding editor David Rowan, and he is a regular AI commentator on BBC radio.
As a speaker, Rahim Hirji is sharp, thought-provoking, and refreshingly human, helping audiences cut through the AI hype to focus on what people do best. He speaks on the human skills that matter in the age of AI, reclaiming judgment and decision-making from the algorithm, building change-ready and future-proof teams, and leading well through constant technological change. Having addressed leadership teams at Google, Barclays, and Kaplan, and taken the stage everywhere from the CIPD Festival of Work and London Tech Week to Imperial College London, he leaves audiences clearer, more confident, and reminded of their own irreplaceable value.
Rahim Hirji Speaking Videos
Rahim Hirji | Keynote Speaker | Drift vs Design (2026)
SuperSkills: The 7 human skills AI can't replace (with Rahim Hirji)
Rahim Hirji Keynote Topics
Most organizations drift. The best design. Drift asks nothing of you, because every single step toward handing judgment to AI is reasonable, yet a thousand unmade choices add up to an organization that has given away its judgment without ever deciding to. Design is the opposite: the deliberate decision to work out in advance where human judgment has to remain, and to build the work so it cannot slip out unseen. Drawing on research with more than 200 organizations, Rahim Hirji shows a leadership team which mode it is running, where AI sharpens judgment and where it weakens it, and hands them the controls, including the start of a “custody list” of what the organization has decided not to delegate. Built for executive teams, boards, and senior leadership offsites.
The suit amplifies; the human decides. AI is the suit: it makes everyone faster, stronger, and more capable, but the suit does not decide, the human does. In this keynote, carried by a family story spanning generations and continents, Rahim Hirji hands audiences the seven human “SuperSkills” that grow more valuable as the tools spread, along with his SuperSkills Ladder and the Augmented Mindset. People arrive thinking AI is the story; they leave knowing they are. Built for whole organizations, cross-sector conferences, education, and leadership audiences.
A live test of a board’s own judgment. As AI rewires how businesses run, human judgment is quietly leaving with it. Told in three acts and built specifically for boards, this talk ends with a live, real-time test that shows a board its own judgment in the room, a result no one forgets. Directors leave clear on what AI is changing in how organizations run, how their own board actually decides, and what to do next. Typically offered to boards from December through March.
Rahim also develops bespoke keynotes shaped around an organization’s specific theme or sector each year, alongside the flagship three, from how AI is reshaping a particular industry to the precise shift a leadership team is facing. Delivered in person and online, worldwide.
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FAQs on Booking Rahim Hirji
Why Rahim Hirji?
Booking Rahim Hirji brings audiences a genuinely fresh, human-centered take on AI, grounded in both research and two decades on the front line of education technology. As the author of SuperSkills, the founder of The SuperSkills Intelligence Company, and a former founder of EtonX and growth leader at Quizlet, he helps leaders cut through the hype to focus on what actually matters: the human skills and judgment that become more valuable as machines take over the rest. Sharp, optimistic, and refreshingly practical, his work is endorsed by figures from Harvard Business School to WIRED, and he has spoken to teams at Google, Barclays, and Kaplan and on stages from the CIPD Festival of Work to London Tech Week. He is ideal for events on AI, the future of work, leadership, and change. To bring Rahim Hirji to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Rahim Hirji?
Rahim Hirji is a London-based keynote speaker, strategic advisor, and author, and an expert on future-readiness and the human side of artificial intelligence. He is the author of SuperSkills: The Seven Human Skills for the Age of AI (Kogan Page) and the founder of The SuperSkills Intelligence Company, an advisory and speaking practice focused on how AI changes the work of thinking. Over a twenty-year career in education technology, he founded the skills platform EtonX, later acquired by Eton College, and led Quizlet’s international growth across more than 60 countries, with earlier roles at HarperCollins and Avallain. He writes Box of Amazing, a weekly newsletter on AI and human capability read by around 25,000 subscribers, and is a regular AI commentator on BBC radio. His book is endorsed by Harvard Business School’s Karim Lakhani, WIRED UK founding editor David Rowan, Sherry Coutu CBE, and Tom Chatfield.
What is “SuperSkills” about, and what are the seven human skills?
SuperSkills: The Seven Human Skills for the Age of AI is Rahim Hirji’s book, published by Kogan Page. Its central argument is that as AI takes over more and more of what we produce, the bottleneck in organizations is no longer output, but human judgment, and that certain human capabilities therefore become more valuable, not less. Hirji identifies seven of them: curiosity, change readiness, big-picture thinking, empathetic communication, global adaptability, principled innovation, and the augmented mindset. Running through the book is his Drift versus Design framework, which describes how we unconsciously hand our judgment to AI one convenient default at a time, and the deliberate choices we can make to take it back. Drawing on research conducted with more than 200 organizations across over 30 countries, SuperSkills gives leaders a practical, optimistic playbook for thriving, and staying human, in the age of AI.
What topics does AI speaker Rahim Hirji cover?
Rahim Hirji speaks on the seven human skills for the age of AI, reclaiming judgment and decision-making from the algorithm (“Drift versus Design”), and what remains distinctly human as machines grow more capable. His keynotes suit events on AI, the future of work, leadership, change, and innovation, for corporate and leadership audiences. To book Rahim Hirji as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau
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