Each talk runs as a standalone session or pairs with another for a half-day or full-day program. Tell me your audience, your format, and your timeline; I will recommend the combination that fits.
The signature talk. The labor market your seniors are walking into has fundamentally shifted, the cheating panic is the wrong diagnosis, and the literacy gap inside your faculty is bigger than the gap inside your students. Walk out with the three principles, the 12-month rollout, and a sample two-page board policy.
The contrarian talk. Bans do not reduce student AI use, they reduce school visibility into it. The schools softening their bans in the last 18 months are not giving up on integrity; they are recovering their seat at the table. For board members who are getting pressure from parents on both sides of the AI question, this is the talk that gives them defensible language for either direction.
Hands-on faculty workshop. The students using AI badly is a smaller problem than the faculty not using AI at all. This session walks teachers through the core moves: when to use AI for grading, lesson planning, and differentiated material creation; when not to; how to evaluate student AI use; and how to talk to parents about it. Leaves participants with a working set of prompts and a follow-up plan.
A working session for school leaders ready to commit to the framework. Walk in with where your school is. Walk out with a sequenced 12-month plan: working group composition, policy timeline, faculty literacy training schedule, parent communication plan, and curriculum touchpoint integration map. Bring your IT lead.
The parent-facing version of the framework. Five common questions parents bring to school admin (should I take ChatGPT away, will the teacher catch AI use, will kids stop learning to think, what about cheating, what is the school doing for teachers) with five defensible answers grounded in the same policy the school adopted. Designed to be co-hosted with the building principal.
The 30,000-foot version of the work. 25 years watching technology waves reshape industries (the early web, mobile, social, attention economy), six years shipping production AI, an honest read on what is real and what is hype, and a framework for thinking about AI in any industry, not just education. Good for cross-sector conferences where the audience is mixed.
The fastest path is a 30-minute scoping call. Tell me about your conference, association, or district event: audience size, format, dates, and which talks fit the program. I will come back with a clear yes or no and a fit-checked recommendation.
Speaking fees scale with audience size, format, and travel. State and regional associations, superintendent groups, and independent school associations are the audiences I prioritize. I take a small number of paid talks per year so each event gets the same level of preparation as the keynote, which means I will only say yes if the fit is real.
For schools or districts that want me on-site for a combination keynote plus faculty workshop plus parent-night session, that is a full-day program and the rate reflects it. For state associations and conferences, the standalone keynote is the most common booking.