About the Author
Caroline Stokes
Caroline Stokes is leadership strategist for the 5th Industrial Revolution and author of AfterShock to 2030: A CEO’s Guide to Reinvention in the Age of AI, Climate, and Societal Collapse. Her work offers a radical roadmap for navigating disruption, grounded in trauma-aware systems, emotionally intelligent AI, and adaptive intelligence.
A Sony alum who helped launch PlayStation, Caroline has evolved from executive headhunter to a globally recognized authority on psychological and strategic leadership reinvention. She works with CEOs, boards, and executive teams to build sovereign, trust-based systems that align with today’s complex, polycrisis environment.
She is also the author of Elephants Before Unicorns (Entrepreneur Press, 2019), co-author of the HBR Guide to Navigating the Toxic Workplace (2024), and contributor to Coach Me! (Wiley, 2022). Her insights have appeared in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, The Globe and Mail.
Caroline has delivered keynotes and workshops around the world, including for the World Bank, IEEE-USA, and the UN Peace Day celebration in Los Angeles. Her TEDx talk predicted the leadership challenges organizations now face.
