Keynote
More than another “AI is changing everything” talk.
For conferences, leadership retreats, and company-wide events. I speak about the psychology of human-AI collaboration: why smart organizations struggle with adoption, what the research says about when human-AI teams outperform and when they don’t, and what leaders can actually do about it. Grounded in specific findings, concrete examples, and the kind of uncomfortable observations that generic keynote speakers avoid.
Every keynote is built for the specific audience. A room of CEOs gets a different talk than a room of department heads. A healthcare organization gets different examples than a technology company. The framework is consistent. The application is tailored.
Topics include why AI pilots die and what the survivors do differently, the psychology of resistance to AI adoption, how to build the organizational conditions where human-AI collaboration actually works, and what leadership looks like when your team includes machines.
Workshop
A working session, not a presentation.
Half-day or full-day formats for leadership teams and cross-functional groups who need to move from “we should do something with AI” to a concrete plan.
Workshops start with the current state: where the organization is on the adoption curve, what’s been tried, what’s working, what’s stalling. From there, I run a structured process that surfaces the real barriers (usually psychological and organizational, rarely technical) and builds an implementation plan that accounts for them.
Participants leave with three things: an honest assessment of their organization’s AI readiness, a prioritized roadmap of what to do first, and a shared understanding of why previous attempts stalled. That last one matters most, because until a team agrees on what went wrong, every new initiative repeats the same failure.
Workshops can stand alone or serve as the starting point for an engagement retainer.
Engagement Retainer
Where adoption actually sticks.
For organizations that want ongoing advisory and implementation support as they navigate AI adoption. Monthly retainer, typically following a workshop or keynote that surfaced the depth of the challenge.
I work with leadership to prioritize initiatives, design rollout plans that account for human factors, troubleshoot adoption failures, and measure progress against the conditions that predict long-term success.
Surface-level AI consulting delivers a recommendation deck and walks away. The retainer is what makes adoption stick, because the hardest problems only reveal themselves during implementation, and they’re almost always about people.
The Book
AI Empowered: The Psychology of Extraordinary Human-AI Collaboration
A synthesis of research on human-AI collaboration, organizational psychology, and what separates companies that get AI right from the ones that keep buying tools nobody uses. Written for leaders who are tired of hype and want to understand why their AI initiatives keep stalling.
The Podcast
AI Empowered: Human X AI Readiness
Weekly episodes that take the ideas from the book into practical territory. Interviews with practitioners, analysis of what’s actually working, and the questions about AI that most podcasts skip.
What This Isn’t
I don’t sell AI tools. I don’t resell software with a new label. I don’t build chatbots, implement platforms, or run “AI transformation” programs that produce a slide deck and a pilot that dies in six months.
I help organizations understand why AI adoption fails and build the conditions where it succeeds. The approach is platform-agnostic. The focus is on your people and your systems, not on any vendor’s product.
If you’re looking for someone to install a tool, I’ll happily recommend a good integrator. If you’re trying to figure out why your organization keeps stalling on AI despite having good tools and smart people, that’s the conversation I’m built for.