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February Meeting- AI and YOU! How to Understand, Embrace and Apply AI!

February 18, 2025
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
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Hilton Garden Inn
5265 International Blvd.
North Charleston, SC 29418
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AI is reshaping HR, from talent acquisition to employee engagement and workforce planning. This keynote demystifies AI for HR professionals, showing how to embrace it with confidence and use it to enhance, not replace, human decision-making. Attendees will learn practical ways to integrate AI into HR processes, improve efficiency, and navigate ethical considerations.
AI is transforming the way we work, make decisions, and innovate in HR, but many people still don’t fully understand its impact or how to use it effectively. This keynote demystifies AI, showing how anyone regardless of technical background can embrace it with confidence. Through real-world examples and actionable insights, attendees will learn how to integrate AI into their daily work, drive efficiency, and stay ahead in an AI-powered world.
Three Learning Objectives:
1. Understand AI’s Role in Business and Daily Life. Gain a clear understanding of what AI is, how it works, and how it’s already shaping industries and everyday tasks.
2. Overcome AI Resistance. Gain strategies to foster AI adoption while maintaining a human-centered approach.
3. Apply AI for Better HR Outcomes. Explore practical AI tools that improve efficiency, data-driven decision-making, and workforce planning.
Presented by: Joy Baldridge, BA, CPC, CSP, CVP

Joy is the founder and owner of 3 successful international businesses, a Certified Speaking Professional, TEDx and globally renowned expert on leadership, communication, stress reduction/wellness, and positive change.
Joy is the author of 3 business books, and made the 41 Top Motivational Speakers list along with Daymond John and Simon Sinek. Her message is fresh and new. Her energy is captivating, insights inspiring and motivating.
Joy has delivered over 2,500 presentations for organizations, associations, and corporations including: SHRM-South Carolina, Tri-State SHRM - CT/RI/MA, National SHRM, Pizza Hut Women’s Forum, Microsoft, Google, KPMG, IBM, NBC, Rolling Stone, Energizer, Architectural Digest, O the Oprah Magazine, and Yale University. She is a dynamic and engaging speaker who delivers presentations that are meaningful, stories that are inspirational and provides insights that are relatable and useful for decades. Joy shares innovative, actionable, invaluable tools and proven fresh ideas that all can quickly benefit from by applying to everyday challenges at work and in life.
