Re-Placed: Answering the Call of Leadership in the Age of AI

Amazon Best Seller in Strategy & Competition, Business Mentoring & Coaching, and Business Technology Innovation
A Fast Company Press Book

AI didn't arrive with a warning. It arrived with a question: what are you going to do now?

Today, leaders are caught in a cascade of contradictions. The technology that promises unprecedented capability also delivers unprecedented doubt. AI makes everything faster, cheaper, and more capable. It also makes the most fundamental question of leadership unavoidable: what are humans actually for? You did not choose this moment. But you are responsible for who you and your organization become in it.

In Re-Placed, Leadership Strategist and CEO Kari Zeller offers something rare in the AI conversation: a leadership book that starts with the human, not the technology. The arrival of artificial intelligence doesn't have to displace us. But it will, unless we learn to re-place ourselves first—to consciously reposition who we are, how we lead, and where we create value in a world where intelligence is no longer ours alone. Through stories as practical as they are personal, Zeller shows how the strongest leaders take the helm during existential change, how re-placing ourselves is key to flourishing in this new era, and how what we choose to value matters more than what AI can do.

Drawing on decades of experience guiding senior executives through high-stakes transitions, from combat operations to the boardroom, Zeller provides a framework for the proactive, innovative leadership this moment demands. The linear thinking that built your success cannot survive this exponential wave. Re-Placed equips you to create the conditions where people and organizations don't just survive the shift, but flourish in it.

The future will not be managed. It must be led.

Kari Zeller is a battle-tested leader, U.S. Air Force

combat veteran, and Founder and CEO of TGN

Consulting. She brings transformative strategies from

the battlefield to the boardroom, advising boards,

CEOs, and senior executive teams across Fortune 100

companies, healthcare systems, retail, private equity,

and governmental organizations.

Her methodology focuses on actively aligning

strategy, culture, and leadership to create coherence

and clarity when the stakes are highest.

She is the author of the forthcoming book Re-Placed:

Answering the Call of Leadership in the Age of AI

(Fast Company Press, July 14, 2026), which provides a provocative and essential

playbook for executives seeking to mobilize their organizations for a future shaped by AI,

robotics, and quantum computing.

Rather than allowing people to be passively displaced by technology, Zeller champions a

strategy of consciously "re-placing" ourselves to harness disruption, reimagine value

creation, and ensure human-centric growth.