Sofia Geyer, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and the future of human thought in organizations.
"The true competitive advantage of the future will be the capacity for human thought, collaboration, and creativity."
Much of the current conversation about AI still focuses on automation, productivity, and technology adoption.
But the most important questions are only now beginning to emerge: what happens to critical thinking when we increasingly delegate decisions to intelligent systems; how does creativity change in contexts of cognitive automation; which human capabilities are strengthened and which begin to deteriorate; how to build organizations capable of integrating AI without losing judgment, depth, and autonomy of thought.
These are the questions that guide my research and my practice.
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La inteligencia artificial no solo está cambiando herramientas y procesos. Está empezando a modificar cómo las personas piensan, deciden, aprenden y construyen conocimiento dentro de las organizaciones. Y esa transformación —silenciosa, profunda y todavía poco comprendida— es exactamente el territorio donde trabajo.
Soy investigadora, consultora y speaker especializada en la intersección de neurociencia cognitiva, innovación organizacional e inteligencia artificial.
Mi trabajo acompaña a empresas, gobiernos y líderes a navegar una pregunta que ya no es opcional: cómo integrar IA sin erosionar el criterio, el juicio y la inteligencia colectiva de sus equipos.
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My starting point is unconventional.
I started in neurorehabilitation, working at institutions such as FLENI, INECO and Pediatric Therapy Network in Los Angeles.
There I understood something that continues to guide my work to this day: human capabilities are not abstract. They develop, deteriorate, and depend deeply on the systems and environments where people work. I saw firsthand how the human brain functions when it loses autonomy, language, memory, or planning ability.
I learned to observe how real skills are built in complex contexts, long before artificial intelligence became the focus of the debate. Years later, I brought that perspective to the organizational world.
Not only through external consulting, but also by leading innovation and transformation processes from within. I led programs and departments in the Buenos Aires City Government, at BASF, and in organizations plagued by internal politics, cultural resistance, silos, and fear of change.
In that step, I learned another dimension of the problem: organizations don't change by incorporating technology. They change—or fail—depending on how their people think, learn, collaborate, and respond to complexity.
That experience shaped everything I do today.
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Technologies to improve humanity.
From The Human Lab —my consulting firm and academy focused on innovation, artificial intelligence and human capabilities— I work with organizations and professionals throughout Latin America designing transformation processes, development programs and new ways to build capabilities in times of increasing automation.
I divide my time between strategic consulting, research, speaking and outreach, and the development of my first technology startup, focused on how to use technology to enhance and expand human cognition.
I advise and work with companies such as Mercado Libre, Globant, YPF, IDB, BGH and more than 30 organizations throughout the region.
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I learned from the best innovation hubs in the world.
In 2025 I was selected to represent Argentina in the Eisenhower Fellowship , one of the most demanding and recognized leadership programs in the world.
For six weeks I toured ten innovation hubs in the United States —Philadelphia, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Chicago, Boston and New York— conducting more than 80 interviews at MIT, Harvard, Stanford, IDEO, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and other globally renowned organizations , investigating how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are redefining work, organizations and human capabilities.
Understanding how we should develop truly ethical frameworks and governance for innovation.
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Lifelong learning.
Master's degree in Neuroscience Research — Favaloro University (thesis pending)
Women Entrepreneurship — Bank of America & Cornell University
Creativity and Strategic Innovation — UTDT
Specialization in Strategic Human Resources Management — UdeSA
Sensory Integration — USC, Los Angeles
Positive Psychology UPenn
Occupational Therapist — University of El Salvador
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