The Inspire Collective
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Inspirational Speaking And Events
Invite Abby to ignite passion and purpose within your teams, and build organizations where equity, meaning, and joy to fuel performance.
Potential Speaking Topics
Guiding organizations to adopt AI in ways that enhance human capability, align with values, and deliver responsible, sustainable impact.
Helping individuals and teams build adaptable skills, mindsets, and confidence to thrive amid technological and workplace change.
Equipping leaders with the tools and perspectives needed to make sound decisions, inspire trust, and navigate uncertainty effectively.
Measuring and strengthening an organization’s ability to generate, scale, and sustain meaningful innovation.
An integrated approach to leadership development that aligns strategy, culture, execution, and people for long-term performance.
About Abby S Knowles, Founder & Principal
Technology Strategist | Enterprise Advisor | Tech-Culture Architect | Social Equity Champion | Green+Tech | Speaker
Abby Knowles is a globally respected technology executive and advisor with more than 28 years of experience leading innovation, operations, and enterprise-scale change within a Fortune 50 telecom organization serving a $100 billion business unit.
Through ASKTech Works LLC, Abby helps organizations accelerate digital and AI adoption, strengthen business–technology trust, and build the leadership capability to execute with discipline and purpose. Her proprietary frameworks—developed and proven in the field—blend systems thinking, culture building, and business acumen into practical, high-impact strategies.
Known for her warmth, wisdom, and authenticity, Abby both builds and teaches the trust that enables teams to collaborate across silos, communicate effectively, and deliver measurable results. Her work bridges the human and machine worlds, helping organizations lead confidently in this era of exponential change.
Beyond her enterprise advisory and execution work, Abby is the founder of the December Leadership Lab—a professional- and personal-development initiative that applies Kolb’s learning science and MIT’s Theory U to enable deep, measurable transformation for individuals and teams. The Lab combines reflection, experiential learning, and intentional design to help participants pause, reimagine, and create actionable roadmaps for purposeful growth—in leadership, work, and life.
With the precision of an engineer, the discipline of a military upbringing, the stamina of a masters athlete, and a core belief that technology must serve good, Abby brings a rare combination of intellect, integrity, and inspiration to every engagement.
Abby brings decades of real-world experience and inspiring storytelling to every stage—helping leaders see technology, trust, and transformation through a more human lens.
