Navigating Now Series: Trump & AI: Your New Career Reality

There is opportunity around every cataclysmic shift. But opportunity doesn’t reveal itself without clarity, and you need a plan for how to face the next few years and anticipate the changes about to unfold in your industry or arena. We are already doing this work with many of our clients, and it is both exciting and challenging.

Right now, two forces are colliding at once: political decisions that can shift markets overnight, and artificial intelligence transforming business models and roles at lightning speed. Together they are reshaping the future of business, work, and financial security.

This 60-minute interactive session is about seeing the terrain more clearly so you can navigate it differently. After the session, I’ll stay on for as long as the Q&A lasts to address your questions.

A few years ago, I wrote about the difference between a trend and a megatrend. Trends come and go, like the hula hoop. Megatrends, like birth control or the internet, permanently change how we live. Today we are living through something even bigger, not a megatrend but a maxi-trend, an explosion.

Most people are skimming headlines, not connecting them to what tomorrow will look like for their industries, their jobs, their investments.

When you can’t see the patterns, you can’t prepare. This session is about connecting those dots differently, so you can position yourself more effectively for what’s next.

We’ll cover:

• How lessons from the past can sharpen our view of what’s unfolding now.

• Approaches that will work when we account for the seismic shifts underway.

• Real-world examples of industries adapting successfully, and the signals to watch.

• Where leaders and professionals are gaining ground, and how to apply those moves yourself.

• Fresh ways to think about risk, agency, and possibility in a rapidly shifting landscape.

  
  

You can submit questions ahead of time or anonymously during the session, and I’ll take them all in the extended Q&A.

The session is $50 and limited to 20 participants to keep the discussion focused and interactive.

Want to know more? Here's the outline for the session.

Introduction & How We Got Here — 5 minutes

Setting the stage: why politics and AI are colliding to redefine business, work, and financial security, and how lessons from past signals can help us recognize the ones emerging now.

Spotting Signals Before They Become Headlines — 10 minutes

How to move beyond surface-level news and identify early signs of disruption, opportunity, and shifting power.

Politics, AI, and the Future of Business — 15 minutes

Where AI is driving change, how policy decisions amplify those shifts, and what this means for industries, business models, and careers. With real-world examples to help you evaluate your own positioning.

What’s Working Now — 10 minutes

Where professionals and business leaders are actually succeeding in adapting, and how to avoid the outdated strategies that waste energy. From industries reinventing themselves to individuals building influence, you’ll learn how to separate signal from noise.

Enough About Them: Turning Data Into Your Own Path — 7 minutes

How to analyze the trends, case studies, and shifts we’ve discussed and translate them into choices for your own career, business, or financial positioning. Practical ways to filter the noise and apply insights directly to your context.

Positioning Yourself Strategically — 8 minutes

How to ask smarter questions of yourself, your advisors, and your employers to assess your exposure, create real options, and navigate disruption with clarity. You’ll leave with a simple framework you can apply immediately.

Rethinking Risk, Agency, and Possibility — 5 minutes

Why your personal and professional history can no longer guide your decisions, and how to adopt future-focused frameworks that open new ways of navigating uncertainty.

Q&A

An extended, dedicated session to connect workshop insights directly to your industries, careers, and challenges. Submit questions ahead of time or anonymously during the session.

About Christine Merser

Christine Merser has spent more than 40 years at the strategic table, shaping marketing, political, and business landscapes through times of seismic change. She was there for the rise of e-commerce and the internet, the early adoption of social media in political campaigns (including Barack Obama’s), and for forecasting both the threat of Trumpism and the collapse of companies like Enron. Known for her curiosity, creativity, and ability to adapt, she has guided companies, candidates, and changemakers with innovative strategies that anticipate what’s coming next.

Her latest book, Circles of Collaboration, makes the case for replacing traditional leadership models with collaborative ones as the only way to succeed in today’s changing world.