Penny Locaso works with organisations where pace and urgency leave little room for error in leadership decisions.

As AI accelerates the speed and volume of work, the conditions that support sound judgement are increasingly impacted, placing decision quality, trust, and long-term consequences under strain.

Many organisations experience this as constant busyness, while the deeper risk shows up in rushed decisions, narrowed trade-offs, and leadership choices that carry more weight than systems are designed to hold. Penny’s work focuses on strengthening leadership judgement at this exact point of pressure.

A behavioural scientist and provisional psychologist, Penny brings over two decades of commercial leadership experience together with evidence-led insight into how judgement operates under high-pressure conditions. Her original qualitative research, published as The Compassion Advantage, reframes compassion as leadership capability infrastructure and a scientifically proven edge, strengthening the conditions that support judgement, trust, and integrity as pace and responsibility increase.

Penny supports leaders and organisations to strengthen discernment where it matters most.

Her work focuses on reshaping the decision conditions leaders operate within, including how decisions are paced and framed and how trade-offs, responsibility, and human impact are held day to day.

The focus stays on simple, usable practices leaders can apply immediately under pressure, helping them slow the right decisions while sustaining performance.

She has worked with organisations, government and universities, including Deloitte, Microsoft, SingularityU, NAB, Google, and Booking.com. Her work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, the Australian Financial Review, and on the TEDx stage.

Penny is based in Australia and works with corporate and conference audiences seeking serious, evidence-backed insight and practical ways to strengthen leadership capability in an AI-shaped world.