Michael Earls

Michael Earls is an Enterprise Cloud & AI Transformation Leader with over 20 years of experience helping organizations navigate complex technology shifts. He has partnered with enterprise clients across financial services and beyond to drive cloud adoption, AI strategy, and modern transformation. He is the author of Finding Direction in the Age of AI, Wired for Purpose, and The Digital Compass.

His work centers on a simple but critical question: how can leaders keep clarity, direction, and human connection while technology continues to accelerate?

The three books form a series. Finding Direction in the Age of AI is the map: a short, direct look at leading through AI without losing the human side of work. Wired for Purpose is the practice: a year of daily reflections for the people who build and run technology. The Digital Compass is the compass: four directions for staying oriented in the noisy middle of a real day.

In 2026, Tim Hughes, co-founder and CEO of DLA ignite, named Finding Direction in the Age of AI to his Executive Bookshelf and featured The Digital Compass in his Executive Leadership Playbook.

Michael lives in Cincinnati and writes regularly about leadership, technology, and the human side of change. Be Human First.