Practical AI talks on building AI operating systems and using AI to magnify your human ingenuity.

The Ingenuity Effect: Using AI to Magnify Your Human Ingenuity

When AI takes on the repetitive work that fills the week, capacity comes back for the work only a person can do: their judgment, creativity, relationships, and vision. Rachel shows how to set AI up to surround a person's zone of genius and bring more of it out, so their work grows sharper and more theirs.

Best for: Women entrepreneurs and professionals, founder communities, leadership groups.

Interactive option: A five-minute exercise where attendees set AI on one piece of their busywork and see what it frees up.

The Future of the Business Operating System

The shift from scattered SaaS tools and individual AI use toward a connected operating system with AI at the centre: new workflow-based roles, where agents fit, what happens to existing roles, and how to think one to two years out.

Best for: Leadership teams, business associations, executives, conferences.

Interactive option: A quick self-assessment so the room can place where their organization sits today.

Fix the Process, Then Add the AI: Lessons from Building a Real AI Operating System

The proof talk, delivered anonymized. Rachel worked with a fractional finance firm carrying roughly 180 overdue tasks and no reliable capacity data. Over about six weeks, she built a structured operating cadence with agent-generated agendas and conditional automation. Within the first week, overdue tasks were visibly shrinking and team leads were running their own meetings. Most of the work was fixing the process; once that was clean, adding the AI took very little time.

Best for: Business associations, executive groups, operations audiences, conference main stages.

Note: Always delivered anonymized, no client or individual names.

How to Be a Responsible AI User

Most people adopt AI tools without ever being taught how to use them responsibly. This talk covers the questions that matter once the novelty wears off: how to spot bias in an AI's output before it shapes a decision, what these tools actually cost environmentally and how to weigh that honestly, and how to think about trust, privacy, and risk instead of assuming the tool has already handled it. Practical, not preachy: attendees leave with a way to check their own AI use, not a list of reasons to be afraid of it.

Best for: Business associations, professional bodies (CPA and similar), teams and leadership groups, mixed business audiences.

Interactive option: A live bias demo, run the same prompt or bio through an AI tool under two different names or framings, and look at what changes.

Leading AI from the Front: The Decisions Only You Can Make

Built from the AI for Executives program. Most senior leaders are being asked AI questions that need better answers than "yes," "no," or "we'll ask IT." Rachel shows non-technical leaders how to own the decisions that are actually theirs: setting a defensible AI direction, asking sharper questions of vendors, knowing what needs guardrails, and leading their teams through the human side of AI change.

Best for: C-suite and senior leadership audiences, executive retreats, boards, business associations, CPA or professional bodies.

Interactive option: A short decision-audit where leaders sort real AI questions into what they should own, delegate, or escalate.