AI Governance & Future of Work Strategist; CHRO, Empower Pharmacy and Former VP & Head of HR, Tesla
Valerie Capers Workman: Biography at a Glance
- Valerie Capers Workman has spent her career leading large-scale workforce transformation at some of the most influential and fast-moving companies in the world, overseeing massive organizational growth, enterprise change management, and talent strategy at a scale few executives ever experience firsthand.
- From helping scale Tesla from 50,000 to 100,000 employees while serving on the company’s three-person Management Committee, to now leading AI-driven workforce transformation as CHRO of Empower Pharmacy, Valerie brings audiences an operator’s perspective on navigating disruption, hypergrowth, and cultural change.
- At Empower Pharmacy, Valerie is actively building the future of work in real time — architecting the company’s first AI-integrated HR technology stack, creating the Director of HR AI role, and redesigning performance management systems around modern workforce metrics like Learning Metabolism, Collaborative Intelligence, and Ethical Impact Score.
- Following her tenure at Tesla, Valerie served as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Talent Engagement Officer at Handshake, where she advised Fortune 500 leaders on early-career talent strategy and the growing need to build AI-fluent workforce pipelines across industries.
- A licensed attorney, bestselling author, and widely recognized voice on leadership in the AI era, Valerie combines deep operational credibility with forward-looking insight, helping executives understand not only how AI will reshape work, but how to successfully lead people through transformation at enterprise scale.
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Biography
Valerie Capers Workman is one of the few sitting Chief Human Resources Officers in America actively building — not commenting on — the next era of work. She is the rare AI-and-workforce keynote speaker who is a practitioner, not a researcher, theorist, or analyst.
As CHRO of Empower Pharmacy, scaling toward $5 billion in revenue, Valerie has architected the company's first AI-integrated HR technology stack, designed the Director of HR AI role, and built a new performance management framework for the AI era — anchored in five new metrics including Time to Impact, Learning Metabolism, Collaborative Intelligence, and Ethical Impact Score. She is doing the work that executives in every industry are now being asked to do, in real time, in front of the audience.
Before Empower, Valerie served as Vice President & Head of HR and Head of Global Compliance at Tesla, where she reported directly to Elon Musk, scaled the workforce from 50,000 to 100,000 employees, and served on the company's three-person Management Committee alongside the CFO and General Counsel. Following Tesla, as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Talent Engagement Officer at Handshake, she advised Fortune 500 CHROs on early-career talent strategy with a focus on building AI-fluent pipelines.
Valerie's writing has appeared in Fortune and Fast Company, and Fortune Education featured her as the leading counter-voice to Elon Musk on the value of higher education in the AI era. She is the bestselling author of Quantum Progression: The Art & Science of Career Advancement in the Age of AI — Quantum Leap Edition, an HR TODAY Global Women Leader HR Excellence Award honoree, and a main-stage speaker at HR Tech (Las Vegas) and the Future Talent Council Global Summit (Stockholm).
A licensed attorney in New York, Texas, and Washington, D.C., she is a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School at Syracuse University and St. John's University School of Law. She serves as a Trustee of Huston-Tillotson University and lives in Austin, Texas.
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The Human Advantage: Performance, Adaptability, and Leadership in the Age of AI
As AI reshapes roles, workflows, and organizational structures, most companies are still measuring performance and developing talent using systems built for a pre-AI era. This keynote combines the enduring human skills that will outlast every AI cycle with the practical frameworks organizations need to redesign leadership, workforce strategy, and performance management today. Drawing from Valerie’s experience scaling Tesla from 50,000 to 100,000 employees during one of the fastest workforce expansions in modern business history — while serving on the three-person Management Committee alongside the CFO and General Counsel — the session explores what organizations can learn from leading through disruption at scale.
The keynote focuses on the capabilities becoming most valuable in the AI era: strategic partnership with AI, emotional intelligence and contextual judgment, in-person influence, complex problem-solving, rapid learning agility, and the ability to create impact across fluid organizational structures. Valerie also shares the AI-era performance management frameworks now operating at Empower, including new metrics such as Time to Impact, Scale Quotient, Learning Metabolism, Collaborative Intelligence, and Ethical Impact Score. Designed for executives, CHROs, and senior leaders, the session delivers a practical roadmap for building organizations where technology accelerates human capability rather than replacing it.
Your Audience Will Learn:
- Why most companies are using an outdated playbook to manage their talent, and the specific metrics to replace what's broken
- The five human capabilities that AI will never replace, and how to make them your organization's competitive edge
- What scaling Tesla from 50,000 to 100,000 employees taught Valerie about leading through disruption - and what many leaders get wrong
- How to stop preparing your workforce for AI and start building one that's better because of it
The Hyperscaler Myth: Why Most Companies Are Solving the Wrong AI Problem
The AI strategy keynote. AI strategies borrowed from hyperscalers like Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are the wrong fit for most organizations. This talk reframes AI implementation for the regional healthcare system, the mid-market manufacturer, the community bank, the law firm, and the companies navigating AI transformation without hyperscaler scale or resources.
At the center of the session are the skills that will outlast every AI cycle — strategic partnership with AI, emotional intelligence and contextual judgment, in-person influence, complex problem solving, and rapid learning agility. Valerie also explores how leaders can motivate employees to embrace AI by reducing fear, creating clarity about opportunity, and positioning AI as a tool for growth, contribution, and greater impact rather than as a replacement. Designed for executives, managers, and organizational leaders, this keynote gives audiences a grounded framework for building AI-ready cultures that are both high-performing and deeply human.
Your Audience Will Learn:
- The uncomfortable truth: the AI strategies publicized by Silicon Valley were built for companies nothing like yours, and following them is making you slower
- That your employees aren't resisting AI because they don't understand it (Hint: they're waiting for someone to show them how it makes their work matter more - not less)
- The human skills your competitors are underinvesting in while chasing the wrong technology bets
- A framework built to empower leaders and their teams to stop waiting for permission to move
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