Signature talks

What Is Work Worth When AI Does the Work?

The economic logic under compensation is breaking. This talk gives executives a new framework for valuing human work when agents do the execution, and why the companies that figure it out first will win the talent that matters.

For: CHROs, CFOs, boards, executive teams

The Horizon and the Cliff: Leading Through the Human Side of AI

From the C-suite, AI looks like the horizon. From the front line, it looks like a cliff. That gap, what I call Altitude Sickness, is why transformations stall: leaders are energized by the strategic potential while their teams are paralyzed by the existential threat. Two different movies on the same screen. Grounded in original research on 950 employees, this talk shows leaders how to close the gap by architecting trust deliberately, credibility, integrity, and benevolence, and gives them the behavioral tools to make the technical roadmap actually get adopted on the front line. 

For: executive teams, transformation and technology leaders, senior leadership off-sites

Your Performance System Was Designed for People Who Don't Exist.

A behavioral scientist's teardown of performance management, and a blueprint for a system built on how humans actually work. Managers leave with a different job, and the skills to do it.

For: HR leaders, people managers, leadership programs

What audiences get:

• A reframe they'll repeat to their own teams

• Research they can trust, translated into plain decisions

• A specific action, not inspiration