Cortney Harding is a leading authority on the integration of Smart Glasses and Agentic AI into the global enterprise. As the founder of Friends with Holograms, she has spent over a decade re-architecting how the world’s most complex organizations—including Walmart, Amazon, Accenture, Verizon, and Lowe’s—scale human intelligence and operational performance.

Her work moves beyond "pilot theater" to deliver measurable business outcomes, including a 75% reduction in enterprise training costs, a 31% decrease in employee turnover, and a 92% improvement in workforce performance.

Global Leadership & Recognition

A member of the World Economic Forum and the Fast Future Executive faculty, Cortney is at the forefront of the "Spatial Race." She was named one of the Top 100 Global Women in AI (Davos 2025) and has been honored with an Emmy nomination and the SXSW Innovation Award for her work in defining the next interface of human-machine collaboration.

Academic & Thought Leadership

Cortney is the author of The Spatial Race (2025) and co-author of Fast Future Blur (Wiley, 2024). She developed and leads the world’s first university-accredited curriculum for Smart Glasses at New Mexico State University, and has taught at CalTech, NYU, and Barnard. Through her regular columns for Forbes, she provides the strategic blueprint for the post-smartphone economy, advising executive boards and sovereign entities on navigating the $1.2T risk and opportunity of the spatial intelligence era.