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Erica In Action
Erica Anderson Rooney is a keynote speaker, executive coach, and two-time author. Her new book, THE AI GAP: Women, AI, and the Next Great Leap Forward, launched on June 1, 2026, building on her bestselling Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors.
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She is the founder of HER Collective, the movement helping ambitious women get promoted, paid, and AI-fluent, and host of two podcasts: Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors, and AI Voice or Victim.
The biggest risk to your career isn't AI.
It's sitting it out.
Right now, a gap is opening between the women who are learning to use AI and the women who are waiting until they feel ready. And it's compounding by the day. The ones leaning in are getting faster, sharper, and more visible. The ones waiting are quietly falling a step behind, through no fault of their own, because no one told them what was actually at stake.
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For 15+ years as a Chief People Officer, Erica had a front-row seat to every promotion, raise, and leadership decision. She watched brilliant women get passed over, not for lack of talent, but because every major shift left them behind. AI is the biggest shift yet, and Erica refuses to let it happen again.
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From the C-suite to the front lines, she helps women close the gap and claim the future, before the defaults harden for good.
Free Tools to Close Your Gap
Every book I write is about the same thing: clearing what stands between women and what they're capable of.
Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors is about the fight we've always known. The limiting beliefs that hold us back and the systemic barriers that keep us down. It's how you break through.
The AI Gap is what comes next. Because the moment we've been climbing toward is here, and AI is about to either widen every gap we've been fighting or close them for good. Same mission, new frontier.
One shatters the ceiling. The other claims the future.