Superpowers
AI Agents have skills. Humans have superpowers :-) My top three superpowers are my abilities to influence, think differently and be passionate.
Everyone has superpowers, skills or attributes that they possess that sets them apart from other people.
My top 3 superpowers are:
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The ability to connect and empathise with people, and to be influential - one colleague has even referred to me as an “evangelist.” In my role as a strategist, I have the ability to relate to people and their motivations and concerns, and influence a better outcome for them and the organisation. I have led teams, coached and mentored individuals, guided and delivered organisational strategies that have made a difference. I use my skills each week in my consulting career, and also when teaching undergraduates and masters students at Torrens University.
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The ability to think differently, and solve problems creatively - at the heart of innovation is the need to look at things and situations from a different angle, to provide fresh and unique perspectives and to challenge herd thinking. My career has been full of forged paths, I established one of the earliest successful enterprise architecture practice in a large Australian organisation (MLC) and wrote my own job description, and created norms and roles which are now prevalent in the industry. I was an early pioneer in enabling citizen data scientists, and I deployed an LLM (GPT2) in 2018 to classify support calls into categories.
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The ability to be passionate, and be able to dive deeply and learn quickly on many topics - I am intensely curious about many topics (including the nature and concept of how we perceive reality). I love researching, learning and absorbing everything I can about topics that interest me, ranging from philosophy, Buddhism, music, photography, investment theory, developing websites and apps, and leveraging artificial intelligence to deliver outcomes. Often my passions can be useful to organisations and other people. For example, I have participated and led many Proof of Concepts to explore new technologies and help realise benefits. I am able to pick up new skills quickly and use them to provide outcomes.