Leanne Shelton

Featured in The Australian, ABC News, Money Magazine, The CEO Magazine, Mumbrella, Inside Small Business, and various podcasts, Leanne Shelton is CEO, Global AI Coach, and highly sought-after Keynote Speaker. She’s also the best-selling author of ‘AI Human Fusion’, published by Major Street Publishing in June 2025.

With her 9-year-old SEO copywriting agency struggling to convert in a tough economic climate in early 2023, Leanne made the ultimate business pivot. She decided to embrace (not escape) her shiny, new, and free competitor - ChatGPT - by educating herself on the topic.

With decades of writing, marketing, and training skills in her back pocket, she started to teach (non-techy) business leaders about AI prompt engineering - with the human touch.

The Sydney-based entrepreneur quickly became a sought-after keynote speaker for summits and conferences, with multiple requests to run webinars, workshops, one-on-one sessions, and team training. She’s inspired, educated, and entertained thousands or people directly, alongside a highly engaged online community.

Outside of work, Leanne is a newly converted running and gym enthusiast, lover of dance, daily meditator, occasional yogi, engrossed reader and Audible consumer of business books and psychological thrillers, a dedicated wife, and frazzled mum to two daughters.

Keynote Topics 

Taking a Human-First Approach to AI

As AI accelerates across every industry, many teams feel overwhelmed, unsure and worried about being left behind. But the real opportunity isn’t about mastering every tool. It’s about understanding how humans and AI work best together. In this keynote, Leanne Shelton cuts through the hype and shows audiences how to take a clear, confident and human-first approach to AI adoption.

Leanne explores the three core pillars that shape successful AI use: mindset, strategy and outcomes. She reveals why human judgement, creativity and critical thinking matter more than ever, and how to treat AI as a junior assistant rather than a replacement for expertise. Audiences will learn practical ways to train the tool, improve prompts, assess outputs, and build meaningful capability without losing the uniquely human skills that drive business performance.

This uplifting session helps leaders and teams feel empowered, not intimidated, and ready to use AI thoughtfully, responsibly and with purpose.

Stopping the AI Slop – How to Protect Quality and Prevent Over-Reliance

As AI becomes part of everyday work, many organisations are unknowingly facing a new challenge: a quiet decline in quality. When people lean too heavily on AI, skip the thinking part or trust the output without checking it, the results can be inaccurate, generic or reputationally risky. This is what we call AI slop – and it’s spreading fast.

In this eye-opening keynote, Leanne Shelton shows leaders and teams how to use AI as a powerful assistant without becoming dependent on it. She explores why over-reliance happens, how it impacts performance and what practical safeguards every workplace needs. Audiences will learn simple oversight techniques, smarter prompting habits and human-first quality checks that keep standards high while still enjoying the speed and efficiency AI provides.

This is an empowering session for any organisation wanting to stay sharp, strategic and human-centred in an AI-enabled world.