Hiring a keynote speaker is one of the highest-stakes decisions an event planner makes. The right speaker transforms your event into a milestone your attendees remember for years. The wrong one? An expensive lesson in disappointment. Here's how to make the right choice. Start with Your Outcome, Not the Topic Most event planners start by searching for speakers on a topic: "AI speaker" or "leadership speaker." This is backwards. Instead, start with the question: What do I want

Data tells. Stories sell. Yet most business presentations are graveyards of bullet points and charts that audiences forget within hours. The executives who move markets and mobilize teams have mastered something different: they know how to wrap their business case inside a story that sticks. Why Stories Work in Business Neuroscience explains it: stories activate the brain differently than facts alone. When we hear a story, our brains release oxytocin (the empathy chemical) an

AI slowly eats away the modern org chart Did you know that the modern org chart is actually modelled after how soldiers reported to generals during war times in the Roman period? Just like how schools are modelled after the Germanic assembly line (aka outdated), org chart make-ups isn’t that innovative either. And it’s controlled us for about 2000 years. Let that sink in. So apparently, back in the day, 8 soldiers would form a contubernium (pictured below) Which really was ju

Tokens are the new form of labor, a new way to calculate the opex of a company? The other day, I was using Perplexity Computer, a new product feature that was rolled out. Basically, it’s Perplexity’s version of an AI agent, where it can draft and send emails, run commands in parallel, create sub agents, and execute on tasks. Each task that was finished, my credits started to dwindle, and it made me think of something, which is that labor, in the future, is simply tokens.

The Two Things AI Can't Replace If you have been using the latest AI models recently, you might feel another step-change in the progression. I certainly do. In 2025, you might have had the same feeling I have had: looking at a piece of AI output and thinking, well, it's not perfect, it's...useable, you say hesitantly, but would I hand this to my boss? Hmm. A client? Hmm. Those moments of hesitation were also moments of assurance. It told us that AI was still not good enough

In an era of rapid technological change, organizations are discovering that the ability to learn and adapt may be the most valuable skill of all. This is especially true in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). New AI tools and capabilities emerge at a dizzying pace. What was cutting-edge last year might be commonplace today. A year ago, most AI applications could only process text; now they can analyze images, interpret voice commands, and perform tasks once thought to

And the AI acceleration curve keeps on curving. On July 17, 2025, OpenAI announces ChatGPT agent. ChatGPT Agent is an AI-powered assistant that can carry out complex, multi‑step tasks on your behalf using its own virtual computer. It merges the powers of previous tools like Operator (which handles web interactions) and Deep Research (for long-form reasoning and web synthesis) into a unified system capable of both reasoning and action. I recently got access to ChatGPT agent an

Last week, in the middle of delivering a virtual keynote on AI, a comment in the chat caught my attention. A participant expressed surprise and a bit of disheartenment, having realized that AI is not only capable of managing mundane tasks, as she had expected, but increasingly taking on creative responsibilities. She wondered, "What exactly is left for humans?" It's true: we've been reassured repeatedly that AI would handle repetitive, process-heavy tasks, leaving humans to f