Scott speaks about AI readiness and the future of work.

Every student in the room already knows AI can crank out an essay in nine seconds or do calculus. What they don't know is that this is exactly why their generation is about to split into two camps — the ones who use AI as a crutch and the ones who use it as a launchpad. This talk meets students where they actually are (yes, they're using it; no, lecturing them won't work) and reframes the whole game: become the kind of human no machine can replace — curious, adaptable, able to ask the question nobody else thought to ask. Students leave with a clear sense of how to stand out in a world where being "good at school" is no longer enough.

Best for: high school or college students · 60-minute interactive talk

Here's the trap nobody warns you about: AI doesn't just do your work, it can quietly do your thinking — and the more you let it, the weaker the muscle gets. This is the real conversation students need about the difference between using AI to learn faster and using it to avoid learning entirely. We talk about why the shortcut feels great today and costs you tomorrow, what the research says about attention, memory, and mental health, and how to build a relationship with these tools that makes you sharper instead of softer. Caring but not preachy, direct but not doom-y — students leave knowing the difference between a tool and a crutch, and why learning will matter more than their GPA.

Best for: high school or college students · 60-minute interactive talk

Most students use AI like a vending machine — type a request, grab the output, walk away. That's amateur hour, and it shows. This is a roll-up-your-sleeves working session where students actually learn to use these tools like a pro: prompting with precision, pushing back on bad output, fact-checking the confident nonsense, and building real things instead of just generating their homework. We treat AI like what it is — a wildly capable, occasionally unreliable collaborator — and teach students to direct it instead of being directed by it. By the end, students have hands-on reps and a personal toolkit they can use.

Best for: college students · half-day or full-day workshops

The diploma used to be the differentiator. Not anymore. Employers can now use AI to do a meaningful slice of entry-level work, which means a degree alone gets you a polite rejection email — generated, fittingly, by AI. This keynote is a wake-up call wrapped in a game plan. Students learn what actually makes a job candidate indispensable now (judgment, range, the ability to do the things the machine can't), how to build those edges before graduation, and how to talk about AI fluency in a way that makes a hiring manager lean in. Equal parts reality check and roadmap — the talk every college student should hear before they hit the market and wonder why "I’m a hard worker" isn't landing offers.

Best for: college students · 60 min keynote

There's never been a stranger, better time to build something. A single student with a laptop and the right AI tools can now prototype, design, code, and launch in days what used to take an experienced team and a budget. This talk is for the dreamers, the side-hustlers, and the future founders — the ones who'd rather create the job than apply for one. We cover how AI collapses the distance between idea and execution, where it hands a solo builder a real edge over incumbents, and the traps that sink people who mistake "the AI can do it" for "I don't have to understand it." Part inspiration, part instruction manual — students leave itching to build the thing they've been putting off.

Best for: high school or college students · 60-minute keynote or half-day workshop

There's a gap in your house right now, and it's wider than you think. Your teenager is using AI to write, study, brainstorm, and occasionally dodge actual learning — and most of that is happening with zero parental visibility. This talk closes that gap. Parents get a clear-eyed, jargon-free picture of what their kids are really doing with these tools, where the real risks live (hint: it's less about cheating and more about what happens when a kid outsources their own thinking), and how to have a conversation that doesn't end in the dreaded eye-roll. No fear-mongering, no "ban the internet" nonsense — just straight talk for parents who want to raise a kid who's ready to launch.

Best for: parents of high school students · 60-minute interactive talk

Your teenager might be having long, daily, surprisingly intimate conversations with an AI, and you'd have no idea. It's available at 3 a.m. It never judges, never gets bored, never has a bad day of its own. To a stressed or lonely kid, that can feel like the best friend they've ever had. That's exactly the problem. The conversation about kids and AI has been stuck on cheating; this one goes somewhere more important. The rise of AI companions — the chatbots playing the role of friend or confidant — and what it does to a still-developing kid to lean on something built to keep them engaged like social media. We get into why these tools are so sticky, what the research is starting to show about loneliness, attachment, and adolescent mental health, the signs worth watching for, and — most usefully — how to raise it with your kid without getting the door slammed in your face. No need to panic. Just an honest look at a real shift, and how to stay close to your kid through it.

Best for: parents of teens, school counselors, and wellness staff · 60-minute keynote

Banning AI in your course is like banning calculators in 1985 — you can try, but you're fighting the tide, and the tide always wins. This session is for teachers who are tired of playing detective and ready to redesign their classrooms for the modern world. We get into what changes (assignment design, assessment, what "original work" even means now) and what doesn't (your value as a teacher just went up, not down). Expect practical, steal-this-tomorrow ideas for assignments AI can't easily fake and classroom norms that turn these tools from a threat into a teaching ally. You walk out with a plan, not just anxiety.

Best for: teachers & administrators · 60-minute keynote or half-day workshop

Somewhere on your campus right now, faculty are debating what to do about AI — and somewhere a student is using it to do their homework. The panic-and-prohibit approach will lose. This talk is for professors who'd rather get ahead of it, building AI literacy into their courses instead of treating every student like a crime suspect. We dig into assessment that rewards thinking over output, how to teach students to use these tools with judgment (the skill employers will pay them for), and why your role as the expert in the room matters more, not less, in an age of infinite generated text. You leave with a sharper sense of what's worth teaching when all the answers seem to be a prompt away.

Best for: professors and academic leadership · 60-minute keynote or half-day workshop

How do you counsel a student toward a career when half the jobs they'll hold haven't been invented and a chunk of today's jobs are quietly being automated? That's the impossible-sounding question every guidance counselor, college career advisor, and professor is now facing. This talk hands you a framework for advising students without pretending to predict the future. We focus on the durable stuff — the skills, habits, and mindsets that pay off no matter which way the labor market lurches — and translate it into concrete guidance you can use in your next student meeting. Think of it as a counselor's field guide for an era when the map keeps redrawing itself.

Best for: high school guidance counselors and teachers or college career advisors and professors · 60-minute keynote or half-day workshop

The entry-level job — the rung of the ladder every career has always started on — is the exact rung AI is reshaping fastest. That puts career advisors in a tough spot: the old playbook ("polish the résumé and practice the handshake") doesn't fully cut it anymore. This session, drawn from my work advising firms on how they're actually rethinking talent, gives career advisors a front-row view of where hiring is heading and what it means for the students asking for your advice. We cover the skills employers are quietly starting to screen for, how to coach students to be AI-literate without being AI-dependent, and how to keep your advice ahead of a market moving faster than the curriculum. Practical, current, and built for the people doing the hardest advising job on campus.

Best for: career center staff and professors · 60-minute keynote or half-day workshop