The productivity win you’re chasing? You already won it. Nobody told you what comes after.
Yifat Cohen makes the case your audience hasn’t heard yet — that AI’s most important gift isn’t efficiency. It’s time. And what we do with that time is everything.
Where Yifat has spoken & appeared
We automated ourselves into loneliness and now we're surprised. Cool, cool, cool.
AI isn't the problem. Using it to do more is.
— Yifat Cohen
The Big Idea
Most people use AI to become a faster cog. Yifat helps them stop being a cog entirely. Her central idea flips everything: let AI handle any task it can. The human steps in only when things get real — complex, emotional, irreplaceable.
That moment of human intervention? It stops being exhausting. It becomes precious.
01 — Delegation, Not Enhancement
Stop using AI to do more. Use it to stop doing this.
"AI helps me work faster" and "AI does the work so I can stop working like this" are completely different sentences.
02 — Connection as Health
Loneliness is the new smoking.
Belonging isn't soft — it's survival. The AI-First model frees humans to be with each other. That's not a side effect. That's the whole point.
03 — From Human-Doing to Human-Being
Your worth is not your output.
The assembly line lied. The most important shift AI enables isn't in what you produce — it's in who you get to be when you're not producing.
Signature Talks
AI-First for Well-being · Keynote
We solved efficiency. Nobody told us what comes after. Audiences leave with a framework for using AI not to do more — but to live more.
"The best thing AI could do for your mental health isn't a mood tracker. It's giving you a Tuesday afternoon back."
Human by Appointment · Keynote + Workshop
Human touch becomes precious when it's the exception. A clear blueprint for leaders going AI-First without losing their soul.
"AI is not going to save your marriage. But it might give you enough time to work on it."
Leadership & AI Strategy · Executive Workshop
How do you implement AI without losing your brand's voice or your team's trust? Practical, actionable, built for leaders making real decisions right now.
"Generic automation turns customers into transactions. The fix isn't less AI."
Why Yifat
She doesn’t lecture. She doesn’t preach. She makes you laugh, then drops something you’ll be thinking about for a week — and then tells you what to actually do about it.
She's a practitioner, not a pundit. Invited by Google — as one of very few non-Googlers — to speak about building human connection at scale. She's built what she talks about.
She takes a contrarian angle on AI — without being a fearmonger or a tech evangelist. That's rare. And it makes for compelling radio.
Her audience is your audience. Burned-out high performers. Entrepreneurs who sense something's broken. Parents terrified about what their kids are inheriting.
Sharp. Warm. Funny. Not “LinkedIn thought leader funny.” Dry, genuine, the kind of wit that earns its place by serving the point.
Contributor to bestselling books alongside Guy Kawasaki, David Amerland, and Martin Lindstrom. She plays in serious company.
Years working at the intersection of tech & human connection
Bestselling books she contributed to
Google events as an invited non-Google speaker
Countries where she's spoken or been featured
Past Stages & Shows Include
What People Say
★★★★★
"Yifat is in a league of her own. She doesn't just speak — she connects. Every person in the room felt seen, challenged, and genuinely entertained."
Google Developer Group
★★★★★
"The best hangout I've ever seen. She has this rare ability to make complex ideas land immediately — and make you feel like you just figured it out yourself."
Business & Entrepreneurship
★★★★★
"Yifat's talk had the room thinking and laughing at the same time — which is a rare combination. The feedback from our audience was overwhelmingly positive."
GameChanger Global Summit
About Yifat
Yifat Cohen is an international speaker, strategist, and reclamation advocate making the case that AI’s most important gift isn’t productivity — it’s time. Time to be human again.
She’s one of the very few non-Googlers invited by Google to speak on human connection at scale. She’s appeared on stages across Google Austin, Google Mexico, VidSummit, and Eben Pagan’s Accelerate — and on podcasts like Entrepreneur on Fire, Business Rockstars, and Smarter Destiny.
Her work sits at the intersection of technology, belonging, and what it actually means to live well. She’s not here to sell you on AI. She’s here to help you think clearly about what you do with the time it frees up.
She’s also a Krav Maga practitioner, bungee jumper, and the person most likely to say the thing everyone in the room was thinking but didn’t say out loud.
Contributor to Bestselling Books
The Art of Social Media — Guy Kawasaki & Peg Fitzpatrick
Google Semantic Search — David Amerland
Small Data — Martin Lindstrom
Yifat Cohen — AI-First for Well-being
Speaker · Strategist · Reclamation Advocate