The Decision Experiment
Dr. Lisa Palmer's flagship keynote
Same AI. Different People. Different Results.
Flagship Keynote
You own the decision.
Your AI assistant cut resolution time 40%. Legal just found 3% of its responses make commitments you can't honor.
Quarter ends in three weeks.
Make the call.
Cheap to make.
Expensive to decide.
AI made producing work cheap. It made decisions expensive.
Every organization can buy the same AI — the same models, platforms, and tools. What they can't buy is how well their people decide with it.
Why judgment matters now
As AI floods organizations with ideas, options, and prototypes, decisions once reserved for seasoned leaders are landing on every desk. Deciding what good looks like, where to invest, which process to change, which partner to trust — every employee now needs decision skills once reserved for executives. The bottleneck has moved from ‘can you create it?’ to ‘can you tell whether it's good?’
What happens live
Your audience doesn't hear about this problem. They experience it. Within the first five minutes, every person in the room makes a real AI business decision from their phone. The results appear instantly on screen — and the room watches itself split on identical facts. Later, after a shared decision lens, they vote again and watch their own judgment become visible, discussable, and manageable. No two audiences produce the same result, because the audience is the experiment.
What your audience leaves with
You just met one lens. Your audience meets all four — and leaves with a shared language for the instincts underneath every AI decision they'll make.
You watched one split become visible. Your leaders learn the loop that runs on it: make judgment visible, nudge it, measure what moves.
You saw it named after you experienced it. Your audience gets the first working session in AI Adoption Engineering — the discipline behind everything on this page.
Ideal audiences
Leadership meetings, customer conferences, executive summits, sales kickoffs, and partner events where the room holds the people whose decisions carry your AI investment.
Proof
Dr. Lisa Palmer has watched enterprise AI from every chair: buyer (technology executive and CIO), seller (enterprise leadership at Microsoft and Splunk), advisor (Gartner VP serving hundreds of CIOs; board director), and researcher (doctorate in AI in enterprise environments).
She led 36 global bank CIOs through AI planning in Basel, Switzerland, sponsored by the CIO of the US Federal Reserve.
Author of Show AI—Don't Tell It (Wiley, 2026).
Built on behavioral data from 500+ enterprise leaders.