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AI will touch every corner of our lives as citizens, consumers, and business people. In this 60• to 90-minute keynote, Paul covers Artificial General Intelligence • and whether that creates an existential risk. Then closer to today, he covers the effect on jobs, on biases and fairness, on privacy and property rights, on accountability and malfeasance, and on human development.
Some CEOs call our moment the opportunity of a lifetime, but deciding which AI strategies to pursue is fraught with risk. This 60• to 90• minute keynote covers a) why technology deployments often fail, b) the AI maturity model, c) how to create a vision, d) how to create an AI centered people strategy, e) what an AI deployment and governance team should look like, f) the ethics of AI, and g) getting an AI culture to work. Paul has 35 years helping businesses deploy technology, at PwC and at IBM and is the author of six book on change leadership.
Change management is essential, but big-name firms offer methods from the 1990s, and specialists often peddle New Age and pop psychology. We can’t use 1990s methods because the business world (duh) has changed; we can’t use pseudoscience and pop psychology (such as “left-brain/ right-brain”) because they don’t work. What does work? While there are no change silver bullets, behavioral science (including ideas such as nudging) offers a way of changing behavior sometimes ten times as effective as traditional change. Paul helped design PwC’s change methodology and has advised both Deloitte and IBM on how to upgrade their methods. His four books on change are best-sellers.
McKinsey says that 85 million jobs may be displaced by 2025 by AI. By 2032, the market for AI is predicted to reach two trillion dollars. Business leaders face two related challenges – how do I take advantage of this new technology to create business value? And, more viscerally, how do I future-proof my career, and perhaps even gain a career advantage in this new world?
Old models of change management and leadership, even those from big-name firms, offer nothing by way of insights and tools to help understand the effect of mental health on change and how to build personal and organizational resilience. Yet look around your next meeting. One in five of us suffer at any given moment. Half of us will experience a mental health episode in our lifetime. (And of those, only half get treatment!) We know that change can affect mental health, but mental health also affects a leader’s ability to effect change. What can and should we do?
Did you know that research suggests that culture change fails 81 percent of the time? Yet, IBM’s CEO once said, “Culture change isn’t part of the game, it is the whole game.” And which of us hasn’t seen glossy values posters that get eye-rolls from staff? Why is that? Why is something so critically important impossible to shift? And how, when culture change succeeds, does it happen? Paul was ranked #5 in the world on culture change by Global Gurus. He has advised 3 of the “big-4” consulting firms on culture change and has advised Microsoft and Comcast on culture.
Paul Gibbons is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Ethics of AI: What Citizens and Business Leaders Need to Know, Leadership of AI: Driving Growth while Managing Risks, Getting Past the BS and Myths of Change Management, The Human Side of GenAI and the Future of Work, New Frontiers in Leading Change: Mental Health and Resilience and Why Culture Change Fails, (and What Leaders Can Do to Make It Happen). The estimated speaking fee range to book Paul Gibbons for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Paul Gibbons generally travels from Denver, CO, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Greg Verdino, Tia White, René Carayol, Tim Sanders and Dr. Rumman Chowdhury. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Paul Gibbons for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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