The Cognitive Tradeoffs of AI, and How to Recover From Them

I help women grow their careers faster by building influence at work, which matters now more than ever, in a workplace reshaped by AI.

I spent 12 years in product and growth at Blinkist, Blacklane, Montblanc and KIA, and I know what it's like to do the work and not be seen for it.

So I built the Influence Accelerator Framework, the practice-based approach I now teach my mentees to get taken seriously without waiting for someone to notice.

The tools are grounded in gender research and built from what's actually worked for me and the women I've mentored, not from theory.

I speak about growth and leadership at conferences, on podcasts, and on LinkedIn.

Margaux Pelen is the founder of Episcope, where she studies what AI does to human cognition, judgement, attention, and control. She has worked with leaders and teams on emerging technology since 2011, both as a builder and a strategist.

Her work combines research and fieldwork: a working body of literature on AI and cognition, and direct practitioner communities she runs in Paris and Berlin. She has worked with organisations including LVMH and Chanel.

She co-chairs the GenerationAI Conference in Paris, teaches at HEC Paris, and is an alumna of HEC Paris and Télécom Paris. In 2014 she received a full scholarship to Singularity University at NASA. She is based between Berlin and Paris.