Why Portfolio Careers Win in the AI Era & How to Build Yours

Hosted by Oumaima Talouka and Rachel Slater

Wed, Apr 1, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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The Career Lab: Quiet reinvention in an AI era

Oumaima Talouka and Rachel Slater

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Wed, Apr 1, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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The Career Lab: Quiet reinvention in an AI era

Oumaima Talouka and Rachel Slater

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What you'll learn

Escape the Single-Identity Trap

Discover why "pick one lane" is outdated career advice & the psychology keeping you stuck in a role that no longer fits.

Build Your Portfolio Career Advantage

Use a simple framework to combine your skills and experiences to create career resilience that AI can't replicate.

Map Your Expanding Career Identity

Identify the current, dormant, and emerging identities influencing your next professional chapter.

Why this topic matters

For decades, careers were built around a single professional identity. But the problem is: single-track careers are becoming fragile. AI can replicate a single skill. It can't replicate you: the unique combination of everything you've done, learned, and become. Today, real career leverage comes from portfolio careers that evolve over time. We will help you start mapping your own career expansion.

You'll learn from

Oumaima Talouka

AI Strategist & Leadership Coach | Director @ The AI Collective | Ex-Microsoft

Oumaima Talouka is a Leadership Coach, AI Strategy Advisor, and Founder of The Human × Tech.

She built her career across engineering, product, and Responsible AI at Microsoft, Siemens, and Air France-KLM. She has since coached 400+ professionals through career transitions, advised 50+ startups globally, and spoken on 50+ stages. Oumaima is a Top 1% Techstars Mentor and also leads The AI Collective across Africa, MENA, and Francophone markets.

Today, through The Human × Tech, she coaches ambitious individuals through professional growth, reinvention, and the identity shifts that come with them — and works with leaders and organizations to integrate AI into how they think, decide, and operate, building organizational resilience for lasting impact.

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Rachel Slater

Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft | Licensed Therapist

Rachel is a Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft and the founder and therapist behind Big Feelings Therapy, PLLC.

Bridging tech and psychology, she is especially interested in how AI is reshaping work, identity, and the choices we make about what to build next.

Balancing her dual roles has shaped her belief that a career can expand us over time, rather than confine us to a single box.

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