Speaking & Workshops
Governance without theater. AI without hype or panic. Leadership people can actually live.
Governance for the World That Actually Exists
Most organizations are not governing AI. They are hoping policies will behave like systems. What accountable decision systems look like after the demo ends — and how to build them before the crisis, not during it.
The Leader Is an Operating System
Judgment, presence, boundaries, and care. How executive presence, decision rights, rhythm, and trust become the invisible operating system of a team — and what happens when that OS is never maintained.
From AI Ambition to Accountable Operating Model
A working session that turns AI intent into an operating model: intake, ownership, risk tolerance, escalation, and review. Leave with a decision map, not a slide deck.
You Do Not Need a Smaller Life to Be a Serious Leader
Authority, visibility, home, ambition, and care — the real terrain of leading while carrying a whole life. Systems that make it possible to hold real authority without shrinking or hardening.
You Do Not Need to Become an AI Expert
A plainspoken talk for libraries, community groups, and teams. What AI actually is, what it is actually for, and how ordinary people can engage it with judgment instead of fear.
The Automated Household: Offloading Mental Load Without Losing the Human
The household is the smallest complete governance environment. How AI can carry repetition, memory, and sorting so the humans can carry meaning, presence, and care — with real systems running in a real house of seven.
Well-Formed Agents: Identity, Intent, Drift, Limits, and Succession
Beyond prompts. What it takes to govern long-running AI agents doing real work: identity documents, intent architecture, drift detection, limits, auditability, and succession protocols.
What to expect
I speak the way I work: plainspoken, operationally specific, and warm. No inspirational fog, no doom, no futurist cosplay. Every talk is grounded in two decades of cybersecurity governance, risk, and trust work — and in systems that are actually running, at enterprise scale and at kitchen-table scale.
Audiences leave with language they can use on Monday: who decides, what values guide the decision, what risk is acceptable, how accountability flows, and what must remain human.
Formats
Keynotes (30–60 minutes), executive and board sessions, half-day workshops, panels, and community education. Virtual or in person, based in Colorado.