Let's talk about how work actually works.
I speak at conferences, company offsites, in-person or online workshops, and leadership events about the patterns most people are living inside but can't quite name — about how organizations really function, what makes people irreplaceable, and why the conditions matter more than the talent.
I also speak to business audiences about AI implementation, product strategy, user experience and digital transformation — drawing on my time building products and leading teams, and the experience of working with over a thousand entrepreneurs navigating AI through Hello Alice.
What I Talk About
Every talk is adapted to the room. These are the themes I keep coming back to.
Building With AI
Your team has AI tools. They’re using them to rewrite emails and summarize meetings. Meanwhile, the opportunity everyone keeps talking about isn’t showing up in your results. The problem isn’t the technology and it isn’t your people. It’s that nobody taught them to start with the problem instead of the tool. This talk is about what changes when domain experts stop treating AI like a search engine and start treating it like a teammate — and why the businesses pulling ahead right now aren’t the most technical ones. They’re the ones who know what to build and why it matters.
Keynote or Workshop (45-90 min)Product Leadership
You shipped the thing. The team worked hard. The product technically works. And nobody’s using it the way you expected. This gap between what you built and what people actually need keeps showing up, and the instinct is to fix the product. But the product usually isn’t the problem. The environment your team made decisions in is. This talk is about what happens when you stop managing outputs and start managing the conditions where good decisions get made — and why the best products aren’t designed by the smartest person in the room.
Keynote or Talk (30-60 min)Love the Box
Every creative brief starts the same way — your team wishes they had fewer constraints. More budget, more time, more freedom. But the projects where everything was wide open? Those are the ones that stalled. Constraints aren’t what’s limiting your team’s best work. They’re what’s missing from the work that isn’t landing. This talk is about why the tightest boxes produce the most creative solutions, and how to stop treating limitations as problems to overcome and start treating them as the thing that makes the work possible.
Keynote or Workshop (45-90 min)Building Products People Love
Your product works. It does what it’s supposed to do. Users aren’t complaining. And nobody’s excited about it either. That gap between functional and lovable is where most products live and die, and the instinct is to add more features. But the products people are devoted to didn’t get there by doing more. They got there by understanding something about the person on the other side of the screen that a feature list will never capture. This talk is about what changes when you stop building minimum viable products and start building minimum lovable ones.
Keynote or Workshop (45-90 min)Metaskills: The Skills That Make You Unlearnable in The AI Era
You can train someone on a tool in a week. You can teach a framework in a workshop. But judgment? Taste? The instinct to know something is off before you can explain why? Those don’t come from training and AI can’t replicate them. They come from lived experience in environments that let them develop. The question nobody’s asking is why some environments produce people with these capabilities and others don’t — and what you’re doing right now that might be preventing them from emerging on your team.
Keynote or Workshop (45-90 min)Organic Systems for Modern Teams
You reorganized the team. You implemented the new process. You bought the new tool. Six months later, the same problems are showing up with different names. That’s because most organizations treat change like engineering — redesign the system and the behavior follows. It doesn’t. Teams are living systems, not machines, and they respond to cultivation, not optimization. This talk is about learning to tell the difference between the two when you’re inside one, and why the leaders who figure this out stop having the same meeting every quarter.
Talk or Workshop (30-60 min)Conditions, Not Control
You’ve told your team they’re empowered. You’ve flattened the hierarchy, opened the door, said all the right things. And somehow they’re still waiting for permission. The problem isn’t that they don’t believe you. It’s that the environment is telling them a different story than your words are. This talk is about the gap between saying people are empowered and creating conditions where they actually act like it — and why the hardest part isn’t letting go of control. It’s building the standards that make letting go safe.
Keynote (45-60 min)Where I've Spoken
I've shared stages at CES, SXSW, Essence Festival, Creative Mornings, AccessU, SMX and Big D Design, and worked with organizations like Microsoft, AT&T, EA, Yahoo, the NAACP, PROS Pricing, Houston Chronicle, Cellucor, Rice University, and University of Houston — among others. Whether it's a university lecture hall or a corporate keynote, I love meeting people where they are.
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