Mathieu Lanssens has spent 20+ years in digital marketing and e-commerce, on both sides of the table. As an entrepreneur, team leader and consultant, he has built agencies, led teams and guided companies from ambitious scale-ups to large international brands through their digital growth. His career has taken him from Belgium to London to New York, two cities that permanently shaped how he thinks about ambition, pace and getting things done.
That experience left him with one stubborn conviction: smart, capable people don’t underperform because of strategy. They underperform because they’ve lost control of their time, their attention and their ability to think clearly. AI was supposed to change that. And in some ways, it has. In others, it has made things considerably worse — in ways most people haven’t stopped long enough to notice.
Today, as the founder of Your Time To Speak, Mathieu coaches entrepreneurs, founders and executives on focus, time management and leadership communication. He’s here to ask the question nobody on the AI circuit seems to be asking: where did all the saved time actually go?