The Inspire Collective
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Inspirational Speaking And Events
Invite Abby to ignite passion and purpose within your executive or all employee teams, and build organizations where equity, meaning, and joy fuel performance.
Inspirational Speaking Opportunities
Guiding organizations to adopt AI in ways that enhance human capability, align with values, and deliver responsible, sustainable impact.
Delivered at Frontier Communications AI Week, November 2025, HR Leadership Summit CANTO Feb 2026
Learn Abby's principles for leading technology teams through one of the most challenging times in technology in the history of the world.
There is Zero trust and essential framework for secure digital systems. Then there is FULL Trust for human systems in the digital Age. Learn how to integrate with two with the ASKTech Works Bridge5 Framework.
Delivered at ABIL Foods Cyber month keynote (virtually) October 2025
Measuring and strengthening an organization’s ability to generate, scale, and sustain impactful innovation.
Presented to the Grace Kennedy Board of Directors July 2025
An integrated approach to leadership development that aligns 4 quadrants of personal, domain, organizational and business performance for high impact over the long term.
Leadership Workshop Hosted in 1Q2026
The time to transform is always. Developing a pipeline of leaders that are always ready for the need to change is what separates the good businesses from the bad ones great ones
Helping individuals and teams build adaptable skills, mindsets, and confidence to thrive amid technological and workplace change.
Workshop hosted in 4Q 2025
A message for business or technology leaders, equipping them with the tools and perspectives needed to make faster decisions, inspire trust, and navigate uncertainty effectively.
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.