Lea Reinhart

Consultant & Trainer for Human-Centered AI Transformation

Main focus: Human-Centered AI & Change

Websites/Blogs/Social Media Accounts: https://leareinhart.com
https://leareinhart.com/vortraege
https://leareinhart.com/publikationen

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Languages: English, German

City: Stuttgart

State: Baden-Wuerttemberg

Country: Germany

Topics: artificial intelligence, change management, future of work, human computer interaction, ai and the future of work, human-centered transformation, human resources & leadership, ai literacy, ai and leadership, human-centered ai

Services: Talk, Workshop management, Consulting, Coaching, Interview

Willing to travel for an event.

Personal note:

I speak about AI from an unusually interdisciplinary perspective: my background combines IT (M.Sc. Computer Science), psychology (B.Sc. Human-Computer Interaction) and business (enterprise consulting).

Talk topics include:
• Would you trust your parrot with your credit card? – language models and their risks, explained without tech jargon.
• AI changes more than the output: decision fatigue, skill atrophy, AI-driven burnout – and how we protect ourselves.
• When the emails sound perfect, but the value never arrives – why chatbot rollouts fail.
• AI transformation is a leadership task – giving direction while still learning the technology yourself.
• The employee of 2030: which skills do we need to cultivate and protect in order to stay relevant?

Further topics at the intersection of people, AI and business on request.

Biography:

Over the course of my career, I've positioned myself at the intersection of computer science, psychology and business – first academically, through a B.Sc. in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Hamburg and an M.Sc. in Computer Science with a focus on ethical AI development at Leibniz University Hannover, and then in practice.

I spent two and a half years in various roles in Data & AI consulting at Lidl International, most recently as Digitalization Champion reporting directly to the CIO. There I was responsible for AI adoption across a division of around 100 people, through workshops, training and talks I designed myself. It let me bring my psychological background to bear on what actually makes AI projects fail: rarely the technology, almost always people, expectations and processes.

I now work independently, supporting companies with AI adoption that is sustainable and protects people's capabilities. I give keynotes, run workshops for leadership teams, people & change functions and IT teams, and I'm a guest lecturer on AI competency at the University of Hamburg.

I also write: articles for heise+ and a chapter in the Rheinwerk book "Künstliche Intelligenz verstehen".