Emotional Intelligence in the Age of AI

Faris Aranki is the CEO of Shiageto Consulting, an innovative consulting firm blending strategy and emotional intelligence. Having spent over 20 years delivering strategic change for businesses around the world, Faris has experienced first-hand the fine differences between success and failure. He came to realise what hinders institutions from achieving their goals isn’t the quality of their ideas; it’s their ability to get engagement and focus around those ideas; aspects he is an expert in. He set up Shiageto Consulting in 2019 to help businesses and individuals improve their strategic effectiveness, and now works with some of the top organisations in the world. He is also a speaker, writer and contributor for a variety of outlets.

Soozy G. Miller, CPRW, CDCC, CDP, is a career advisor with 12 years of coaching and recruiting experience and 30 years of experience in professional business writing, including a guest blog for WattNext. As a certified behavior analyst, Master Resume Writer, and recruiter, she brings expertise in leadership behavior, hiring software, and the full hiring lifecycle. She is the co-author of the bestselling book Business Leadership and Culture and the author of the best-selling and award-winning book Control Your Career: 5 Steps to Stand Out and Get the Job You Want. Soozy has been featured in Bloomberg, Yahoo News, MarketWatch, Street Insider, and multiple radio shows.

D. Earl "Doug" Johnston is the author of Choosing Emotions: Thinking with Your Head and Acting with Your Heart. A lexicographer, investigative business researcher and litigation support expert in commercial banking and mergers & acquisitions, Doug has more than 30 years of executive management experience leading banks and private equity firms. Throughout his career, he has worked across lending, borrowing, due diligence, management, and operations, supervising over $5 billion in total transactions and authoring numerous published articles. While spending nine years researching the language and phenomenology of emotions, Doug developed a highly accessible ‘emotionary’ framework that identifies and defines 272 distinct emotional states as the ‘Gears of Life.’ It draws on insights from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, and the arts to help people communicate more effectively. Utilizing contributions and everyday quotes from 19 academic disciplines and all walks of life, his work makes it easier to express emotions, and to enhance emotional intelligence through easily accessible but deeply clarifying vocabulary and phrases. Choosing Emotions has been cited as the most comprehensive reference book on emotions in the English language, and as a modern-day ‘Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations’ in the specific field of emotions.

Akbar Sultan is a certified executive coach and former Chief People Officer who partners with leaders to build clarity, self-regulation, adaptive intelligence and visible impact under pressure. He also supports women leaders navigating male-dominated environments and helps organizations build cultures rooted in servant leadership, accountability and trust.

Patrick D. Fagan, Ph.D., MBA is a senior adviser in executive leadership and talent strategy and an organisational psychologist with experience in workforce transformation, executive succession, leadership development, organisational design, employee engagement, labour relations and culture change. His work focuses on leadership, human-centred organisational transformation, responsible AI and the future of work.