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An AI keynote for leadership teams, about the moments you cannot automate.

Every organization is deploying AI into moments that were never information problems. They were connection problems. This is the talk about which ones a leader may hand to a machine — and which ones are theirs alone.

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What is this keynote about?

Every organization is deploying AI into moments that were never information problems. A status update that used to be a conversation. A rejection that used to come with a reason. A check-in that used to mean somebody noticed.

The technology works. That is not the question. The question is what a team quietly concludes about its leaders when the human parts of the week start arriving pre-written — and whether anyone actually decided that, or whether it just happened one tool at a time.

AI does not create the gap between people. It widens it, quietly, one automated touchpoint at a time.

Why an AI keynote from a leadership speaker?

Jay is neither the futurist nor the alarmist already on your agenda. He runs his own business on these tools, which is exactly why he can be specific about which moments a leader may hand to a machine and which ones are theirs alone — not as a principle, but as a working rule leaders can apply to next week’s calendar.

The argument underneath it is the one running through all of Jay’s work: we share 99.9% of our DNA, and almost everything that goes wrong at work lives in what we build on top of the 0.1%. He calls that difference inflation. AI adoption is where it accelerates, because every automated touchpoint is one less chance to notice the 99.9.

Who is it for?

Leadership teams in the middle of an AI rollout, and the ones about to start one. CHROs and Chiefs of Staff watching adoption numbers climb while engagement numbers do not. Executive teams who have bought the tools and have not yet decided what they are for.

It works as a keynote for a full organization and as a closing session for a leadership offsite.

What do leaders leave with?

Three things, and they are deliberately small enough to still be true on Monday.

Key outcomes

  • A working rule for what may be handed over to AI and what may not
  • The specific touchpoints in their own week where AI is quietly costing trust
  • One touchpoint each leader commits to re-humanizing before the next quarter

Where it fits on the agenda

Best programmed as the close of day one. It gives a leadership team something to argue about over dinner and something to decide the next morning.

Questions planners ask

Before you book.

Is this a technical talk?
No. There are no demos, no tool recommendations, and no predictions about which model wins. It is a leadership talk that happens to be about AI, aimed at the decisions leaders are making this quarter rather than the technology underneath them.
Is this an anti-AI talk?
No. Jay runs his own business on these tools and says so on stage. The talk is about where the line sits, not about whether to cross it at all.
Does it work for a team already deep into an AI rollout?
Yes, and that is often where it lands hardest. Teams that have already deployed can point at the exact touchpoints where something got thinner, which makes the working rule concrete instead of theoretical.
Can it be paired with a working session?
Yes. The Human in the Loop is the working session version, where a team sorts its own calendar touchpoints into what may be automated, what may not, and what is quietly costing trust.
What does a keynote cost?
Fees depend on format, audience size, location, and how much customization the session needs. Send your event details through the contact form and you will get a straight answer with no back and forth.

Let’s work together

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Tell Jay about your event and where your organization is with AI. He will shape the talk around the decisions your leaders are actually facing.

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