Mother of Disruption
Reshaping the Human Contract in the Age of AI
by Jess Von Bank
AI is rearranging how work happens. That upheaval is also an opening: a rare chance to ask what our systems are actually for, and what they quietly ask people to carry.
About the book
We still work inside systems shaped in the last century: rules about who works, when and where, what counts as valuable, and whose lives the workplace is built to accommodate. AI may be the biggest system update we see in our lifetimes. Jess asks us not to spend it making those old rules run faster.
Before we build the next version of work, Mother of Disruption asks who it is for, what value it should create and for whom, and what people should gain from this new capability. The book gives language to what the old system has asked people to carry and opens the possibility of choosing differently. Once the new rules become infrastructure, they will begin to feel inevitable too.
About Jess Von Bank
Jess Von Bank is a technology humanist, future-of-work advisor, and systems thinker. She is the co-founder of Now to Next, a transformation firm specializing in the human dimensions of enterprise AI. Raised in small-town North Dakota with shoulders that know how to lift, Jess has spent over two decades inside talent, technology, and systems design. She is a mother to three daughters, the founder of a nonprofit for girls, and an endurance athlete. Jess measures every system by how well it serves the people inside it, and believes any future of work that fails the humans living inside it is no future at all.