44 MAGAZINE measure and thus make less-biased decisions. There’s something else, though, and that is losing any sense of belonging to one specific physical place. Many of us consider ourselves digital nomads who can do our jobs perfectly with a laptop, a smartphone, and little else. In fact, the teams of people we work with may be spread out over different cities, or even different countries. Since I left my research work behind me to start a professional career in business, I’ve returned to working in a team outside the university teaching field. From that point of view, a leader, for me, is someone capable of extracting all the individual potential of each member of their team while successfully combining everyone’s skills so the members complement one another, develop professionally, and grow in a diverse environment, without ego. There are few things as beautiful in the working environment as seeing someone grow professionally, even more so if you were able to mentor them. I’d like to think that talking about new “future leaders” will help open people’s minds and shine a light on the fact that not all leaders wear a suit or are successful 20-something entrepreneurs who left school early to work in Silicon Valley. Other sides, other profiles, need to be shown, and we need to value those who foster team-based learning. Exceptional things have happened to me over the last eight years thanks to the mentoring I received, mostly from women in the technology and academic sectors. This article is also a way of thanking all of them, for what they bring to the world and for what they gave me in particular. Having new role models who inspire you and who you see yourself reflected in as a woman and as a professional helps you recognize yourself (in time) as a leader when you manage teams, lead projects, or nurture new ideas. But I won’t lie to you. On a personal level, it is a journey that cost me 10 years of my life. It was worth it though. Recognizing new leaders will undoubtedly boost entrepreneurship among women and eliminate gender inequalities once and for all. Finally, to conclude this article, I hope my generation is the one responsible for continuing to define and improve the human-machine relationship without forgetting what it is that makes us human. Human inference and interpretation, taken together, give us the tools we need to create, come up with ideas, and investigate (among other things). If we add technology and Artificial Intelligence to that equation, we have an opportunity to enhance a product, process, service, or even entire field of knowledge in our hands. We need to understand which parts we leave to the machines and which part we do ourselves, and then work together. We have an opportunity to enhance a product, process, service, or even entire field of knowledge in our hands. We need to understand which parts we leave to the machines and which part we do ourselves, and then work together