The future will not be shaped by intelligence alone.

Speaker, Advisor, Podcast Host & Co-Founder of Humanity Schools

For more than two decades, Rebecca Maklad has worked at the intersection of ideas, technology and human potential.

Previously CEO of Future Crunch, founder of Supernova Speakers and part of the founding team at ODE Management, she has spent her career in the global ideas industry, helping organisations and audiences make sense of the profound changes unfolding across technology, science and society.

Today, through her speaking work with Future Crunch and as Co-Founder of Humanity Schools, Rebecca explores one of the defining questions of our time: what becomes more valuable as intelligence becomes more abundant?

Across boardrooms, classrooms and communities, she sees the same answer emerging. As artificial intelligence transforms work and society, the capabilities rising in value are deeply human ones: judgement, adaptability, collaboration, agency and meaning.

After years spent helping organisations prepare for the future, Rebecca began asking a different question: if these capabilities matter so much in the world young people are inheriting, why are we not teaching and recognising them more intentionally in the next generation?

That question became the foundation for Humanity Schools.

Rebecca has spoken for organisations including Nine Entertainment, ANZ, Ernst & Young, Australia Post and Cuscal, as well as state education associations and leadership conferences across Australia.

Her work is grounded in a simple belief: the future will reward what makes us human.