Keynote
What a Finished File Was Never Proving: Rebuilding Assessment for the AI Era
The assessment crisis started before AI. A polished essay, model or deck never proved that a student could do the work alone, and AI made that obvious fast. This keynote shows a design response that doesn’t rely on detection or bans: a fading scaffold, questions anchored to each student’s own work, live defense, and a gradebook that puts the points where independent performance is observed.
Format: keynote, 45–60 min · in person or virtual
For: faculty, deans and provosts, teaching-and-learning centers, education conferences
You’ll leave able to:
- Explain why grading the polished file now means grading the AI
- Sort your graded work on the 2×2 grid: with or without assistance, product or observable competence
- Start three design moves on Monday, with no platform required
Workshop
AI On, AI Off and AI Proof Assessments: A Hands-On Course Redesign Workshop
Bring one real assignment and leave with a redesigned version. Participants map their gradebook on the 2×2 grid, then rebuild one assignment in pairs with a fading scaffold (full, shared, light, AI off), anchored questions and a live defense where the revision carries the points. A short LLM council exercise shows why agreement between models is not evidence.
Format: 90 min to half day · in person or virtual
For: faculty, instructional designers, faculty-development programs
You’ll leave able to:
- Map your current gradebook onto the 2×2 grid and set a target point split
- Redesign one assignment with an AI-off checkpoint and anchored questions
- Run a blind-score, live-defense, revise cycle in your own class
Business and finance education
No Textbook, AI on Every Assignment: How I Teach Graduate Financial Management
Teams work one real company all term from its actual filings and report to the CFO, the CEO and the board. Seventy-seven concepts, each tied to a course outcome, replace the textbook. Students build models by prompt and then fix what the AI got wrong, and two-page memos are defended live with AI off. I walk through what worked, what didn’t, and how to adapt each move without my platform.
Format: session or keynote, 45–60 min · workshop, 90 min · in person or virtual
For: business and finance faculty, business-school leaders, finance-education conferences
You’ll leave able to:
- Design a backward-mapped course arc anchored in real filings
- Use LLM councils to teach source discipline and judgment
- Shift grade weight toward live, AI-off demonstrations of mastery
Innovation and identity · from the Utah HIMSS 2026 keynote
Tension Doesn’t Determine the Outcome. Identity Does.
Proven innovations stall, and the obstacle is rarely the technology. It’s the structure and identity of the organization. Pressure is neutral: organizations respond as Victims who cut and blame, Reformers who optimize inside the system, or Architects who redesign it. This talk covers the three ways to change a system (reform it from inside, regulate it from outside, or route around it) and why unsanctioned AI use is a signal, not just a threat.
Format: keynote, 45–60 min · leadership session · in person or virtual
For: healthcare, education and corporate leaders; innovation and strategy teams
You’ll leave able to:
- Diagnose whether a stalled innovation is a technology, training or architecture problem
- Choose among reform, regulate and route-around strategies for your own system
- Reframe shadow AI as signal intelligence about unmet needs
