KEYNOTE SPEAKER BUSINESS EDUCATOR TECH STRATEGIST
Helping startups, non-profits and established businesses make sense of technology and make better decisions.
Tech talks should not leave you pumped up and empty-handed. I follow the research on how technology is changing your organization, people, customers, and your decisions. I help turn that research into practical next steps for your team.
I follow the paper trail so you don’t have to.
I spent over twenty years running my own technology business, then taught at the University of Missouri, where I directed the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. In many ways, my job has always been the same: understand what is really happening, then help people see why it matters and what to do about it.
Today I follow the research on how technology works, how it’s being used, and what it’s doing to our organizations — and bring it back in plain language you can act on. Clarity over clickbait.
Substance and energy aren’t opposites.
I have spoken with hundreds of groups, including:
Three ways to work with me
Keynotes & Talks
What the research actually says about AI — the real story, without the hype or the doom. A talk your audience is still quoting next quarter.
Workshops
Using AI Well Workshops. The tools matter. How you use them matters more. A hands-on workshop for using AI effectively in real work.
Consulting & Special Projects
Entrepreneurship and innovation programs, built and run — from a two-day intensive to a multi-month cohort, in the US and abroad. Not another strategy deck.
★★★★★
"EXCELLENT speaker. Loved the content and how realistic it was. Wished it was longer, to be honest."
— Mizzou AI Staff Development Week
For years, my job as a professor was simple: read the research and make people understand the implications for work and society.
I learned two things. The answers organizations are looking for are often already in the research. And people don’t act on ideas they don’t remember.
I bring both together: real evidence, made memorable and useful.
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