Dr. Lisa Palmer speaking on stage at Dell

Dr. Lisa Palmer,
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The Decision Experiment

Same AI. Different People. Different Results.

What if your audience could see, in real time, why some people turn AI into measurable business value while others struggle with the exact same technology? In the first five minutes, they will.

Audiences leave with a new understanding of their own role in AI success, practical ways to improve decisions, and a shared experience that sparks conversations long after the event.

  • See the difference in the room
  • Practical ways to improve decisions
  • A shared experience that lasts
“The AI advantage your competitors can't buy is the judgment of your people.”

Topics

The Decision Experiment

Flagship, interactive

Same AI. Different people. Different results. A live audience experiment that works for any audience.

For executives, boards and leadership teams

Show AI, Don't Tell It: From Personal Productivity to Company-Wide Results

Your people are saving hours with AI. What is your business gaining? Dr. Lisa shows leaders how to connect scattered AI efforts to business priorities, choose what is worth scaling and measure what changes.

Pairs with AI Adoption Engineering Level 1 certification, delivered by certified partners.

AI-Powered Sales

For CROs, sales leaders and their teams: how AI changes the buyer, the seller and the number.

When AI Mistakes Are Expensive: Trust, Risk and Human Judgment

For CIOs, CISOs, boards and regulated industries: why AI risk is mostly a people problem (over-reliance, judgment and accountability) and how leaders get it right.

Speaker bio

Dr. Lisa Palmer is focused on making complicated things simple and useful. She has bought, sold, advised on and governed AI: as a CIO, as a go-to-market executive at Microsoft and Splunk, as Gartner's VP of Executive Programs and as a board director. Now she builds with it every day as founder and CEO of Neurocollective, an AI-native company. She holds a Doctorate in Artificial Intelligence (2023), led a hands-on AI lab for central bank CIOs from 36 countries in Basel, Switzerland, and is the author of Show AI—Don't Tell It (Wiley). She has spoken to audiences from boardrooms to 15,000-seat arenas and has been featured by NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News, Forbes, CIO and the Financial Times.

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What audiences say

“Great speaker. She truly knows her subject… I could have listened to her for hours.”
Gregory LawlerCIO, Government Personnel Mutual Life Insurance Company (GPM Life)SIM Boston Technology Leadership Summit
“Dr. Lisa Palmer's keynote on AI was a showstopper, packed with actionable insights on how to embrace AI's potential. Her energy reignited my excitement in the 'era of disruptive innovation.'”
Brianne SprengerManager, BI & Analytics, Agtegra Cooperative
“Her presentation stopped us all in our tracks... every person in my group highlighted her presentation.”
Lisa NammDirector of Brand Marketing and Public Relations, LBMC
“One of the best presentations I've ever heard on AI was from Dr. Lisa Palmer, who was the first person to give me a REAL answer on 'How can we address biases and gaps in our AI data'.”
Leona ThomasSr. Delivery Director, Global BAS Transformation Team, Slalom

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