Keynote Speaker · Corporate Trainer · 200+ Audiences
I've trained 200+ small-business owners and corporate teams across 15+ industries. Every talk I give ends the same way: your audience leaves with at least one AI workflow they can run the next morning. No hype, no 47-tab tool roundups, no engineer-speak.
On Stage · Small Business Show Panel
Bringing real AI workflows, not hype, to the rooms that need them most.
Why event organizers book me
Your audience doesn't need another "AI is going to change everything" deck. They need someone who's installed AI into 200+ actual small businesses and can translate it, live, into their workflows.
No code. No jargon. No Silicon Valley case studies. Every example is a small or mid-size business that looks like the people in your room, so the lessons actually transfer.
Not a handout. Not a QR code to a PDF. An actual AI prompt, tool, or mini-automation they can run Monday morning, demoed live, with the exact words to say.
15+ years as a business analyst, project manager & operations lead before becoming an AI educator. I turn "LLM context windows" into "this is how you stop rewriting the same email 40 times a week."
Signature talks
Pick the one that fits your audience, or we'll build a custom version on our planning call.
Best for: associations, chambers, mixed-industry audiences
The 11pm-Googling-AI-tools talk. Why most owners are stuck, why adding 30 more tools won't fix it, and the 3-step method 200+ owners use to finally ship their first AI workflow. Ends with a live build.
Your audience walks away with
Best for: business owner cohorts, founder networks, mastermind retreats
A hands-on working session. Your audience opens their laptops. We build one AI automation together, using each attendee's actual business, in real time. By the end, something that didn't exist at 9am is running by noon.
Your audience walks away with
Best for: executive teams, leadership retreats, corporate offsites
The talk nobody wants to hear, and every leader needs to. Your team is pasting client data into random AI tools right now. This session lays out the real compliance risk, the 5-piece AI governance framework, and how to roll it out without killing adoption.
Your leadership team walks away with
Best for: solopreneur summits, founder meetups, service-business conferences
A case-study-led keynote. I walk through exactly how I (and 200+ owners after me) cut 10–15 hours/week off our calendars with 3 specific automations, shown live, with the prompts, tools, and timelines. The "how," not the "why."
Your audience walks away with
Audiences I've worked with
When you book me
Every booking includes the planning, the talk, the takeaway pack, and 30 days of post-event follow-through for your attendees, so the impact of your event doesn't end when the lights go up.
Check My Date →If your post-event attendee survey comes in under 4.5/5, you don't pay my speaking fee. Full stop. I take the risk on every single engagement, so you can book me without second-guessing whether your audience will love it.
Formats & availability
Moderated Q&A, panel spot, or fireside format. Great as a breakout at a larger event.
Conference-style signature talk. Live demo included. Most-booked format.
Full signature talk with 15-min moderated Q&A. Ideal for founder conferences.
Laptops open. Your audience builds an AI workflow with me in real time.
3-hour deep-dive for a single team. Custom policy + 2 workflows installed.
6-hour executive offsite. Strategy, policy & rollout plan for your entire team.
Based in Toronto · Travels across North America · Virtual anywhere
For event organizers
My fee varies by format, audience size, and travel. Keynotes start at $3,500. Workshop keynotes and half-day trainings start at $5,000. Full-day leadership intensives start at $9,500. Reach out and I'll send a custom quote within 48 hours.
I'm based in Toronto, Canada. I travel across Canada and the United States for half-day or larger engagements, travel is billed separately at cost (economy air + one night hotel). For 45-min keynotes I usually prefer virtual unless your event is in Ontario or a flight-hub city.
Always. Every booking includes a 30-minute planning call where we tailor the opening story, industry examples, live-demo use case, and Q&A focus to your specific audience. You're not getting the same canned deck I gave last month.
HDMI or USB-C connection to the main screen, a lav mic (preferred) or handheld, reliable internet (I do live AI demos, this matters), a confidence monitor if possible, and a table nearby for my laptop. I bring my own clicker.
You run a post-event attendee survey (I'll provide the template). If the weighted average rating on "How valuable was this session?" comes in below 4.5/5, you pay nothing. No negotiation. No fine print. I've never had to honor it, but it's real.
For a custom keynote: ideally 6–8 weeks. For a workshop or half-day: 8–10 weeks. Can I pull off a 2-week turnaround? Sometimes, but custom content quality drops, so I only recommend it for audiences where my standard talks already fit.
Yes, internal re-use by your organization or attendees is included. Public distribution (YouTube, podcast clipping, paid replay events) is negotiated separately and usually priced as an add-on to the fee.
Within 48 hours you get: availability confirmation, a custom quote, and a short discovery call booked. If we're a fit, a contract lands within another 48 hours. Then we move to the planning call 3–4 weeks before the event to nail the content.
⚡ Currently booking through Q4 · 4.5+/5 rating guaranteed
One PDF-style page with topics, formats, audience fit, the 4.5+/5 guarantee, photos, and pricing bands. Submit your event below and I'll personally reply within 24 hours with the kit and 2-3 date options that fit your timeline.
The Anti-Overwhelm Journal · Free Newsletter
One Friday email. One small piece of your business you'll never have to think about again. Not "quit your job" content. Not productivity bro hacks. The boring backend work, follow-ups, invoices, "did I respond to that?", handed off to an AI employee so your brain can actually close out by 6pm.
Alice Bazdikian · AI coach for small-business owners
Subscribe and the first email includes the free AI Stack template, the 4-workflow blueprint I install live in the workshop, so you can start handing off 40 tabs of decision fatigue this week.