Keynote Speaker · AI & Human Performance

Awakened
Intelligence.

Setting the tone in the age of AI.

I turn AI anxiety into AI fluency. A Fortune 500-tested keynote on the only framework where the AI is also the mirror — Program. Prompt. Practice. — applied to both the system and the self.

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The problem your AI rollout has

8 in 10 of your employees are quietly avoiding the AI tools you just rolled out.

The bottleneck isn't training. It's identity, fear, and self-talk. What HBR now calls the psychological side of AI adoption — and what most keynote speakers can't reach.

— HBR · MIT Sloan · Deloitte / Wharton / Harvard, 2026

The Keynote

Awakened Intelligence: Setting the Tone in the Age of AI

What audiences experience

A live, embodied tool to identify and rewrite the beliefs holding them back. Not a software demo. Not a TED-talk performance. A 40-minute reset that uses AI's own logic as a mirror for the human mind.

What they leave with

Three tools they actually use the next morning: the Limiting Belief Breaker, the 66-Day Rewire daily practice, and a personalized Suno song co-created live on stage.

Format & length

35–40 minutes including interactive moments. Available as keynote, half-day workshop, or executive offsite session. International travel.

Three framings — same talk, different room:
01

Setting the Tone in the Age of AI

All-hands · kickoffs · culture days. Inspiring and practical.

02

Closing the AI Adoption Gap

L&D · Chief AI Officer · change-management buyers. Workflow- and tool-heavy.

03

The Three P's: An Operating System for People in the Age of AI

Executive offsites · strategic planning. Framework-led, with live tool demos.

The Framework

Program. Prompt. Practice.

AI runs on three things: a program, a prompt, and a practice. Your mind runs on the same three. That's not a metaphor — it's a near-perfect operating model. Once your audience sees it, they can't unsee it. And they can finally use AI as the mirror to engineer themselves.

01

Program

AI: the underlying framework set by the engineers — what's safe, how to reason, what's possible.

You: the subconscious script installed by every disappointment, every win, every belief you absorbed before you were old enough to question it.

02

Prompt

AI: the input. What you ask of the system.

You: what you say to yourself, in real time, when you make a mistake — and what you feed yourself over time to rewrite the program.

03

Practice

AI: the training. Repetition, reinforcement, consistency — until the new pattern becomes default.

You: the 66-day rewire. Real research from UCL: 21 days is a starter sprint. 66 days is where the new identity locks in.

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The Bridge

Why this intersection. Why this speaker.

Three years ago I was a broke musician sleeping on a friend's couch in California, on food stamps, with no idea how I was going to get out.

I spent three months meditating in the woods every day. I rewired a nervous system that had been stuck in low-grade fight-or-flight for a decade. I met my own mind for the first time — and chose to speak to it differently.

Six months later I was on Zoom calls consulting VPs at Samsung. ChatGPT had just dropped. We pivoted into AI, and the course went to #1 on Udemy — over 500,000 students. The corporate trainings followed: Apple, Pepsi, Nike, Samsung. They kept rebooking us, and recommending us.

The outer transformation was real. But it came second. The real shift happened first — when I changed the program inside.

That's why I can stand in front of a Fortune 500 audience and talk about AI and consciousness in the same breath. They're the same conversation. I just happen to be the only person on the speaker circuit treating them that way.

What audiences walk out with

Three tools. Used the next morning.

01

The Limiting Belief Breaker

A custom AI agent your audience accesses live in the room. It surfaces the exact subconscious programming running their professional lives — the belief blocking the next promotion, deal, or rollout — and offers the rewrite in plain language.

02

The 66-Day Rewire

Built on Philippa Lally's UCL research. A daily practice — 5 minutes, 66 days — that installs a new identity-level pattern. Comes with a personalized affirmation song, generated live, that they listen to every morning.

03

The Executive Assistant Agent

The practical answer to "where will I find the time for inner work?" A walkthrough of how to build an AI agent that handles the busywork of leadership — inbox, calendar, project status — so the time goes back to what only humans can do.

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