Why does the same AI tech pay off at one company and stall at another? Thousands of human decisions every day determine whether your AI investment creates organizational value.
Same AI. Different People. Different Results.
A road-tested speaker
Dr. Lisa has keynoted in 20+ cities, 5 countries and 3 continents.
New York CityChicagoBostonDallasHoustonOrlandoBasel, SwitzerlandLisbon, PortugalSingaporeBeijing, Chinaand more
Her stages: sales kickoffs, board retreats, CIO forums and a 15,000-seat arena.
Three organizers have each booked her three or more times.
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AI now produces in seconds what used to take weeks: drafts, analyses, code, plans. When making the work is cheap, the expensive part is ensuring that it delivers business value, and that responsibility now sits at every level of the organization.
Every organization can buy the same AI. The best results come from teaching people to make high-quality human + AI decisions.
For your audience
They see their own fingerprints on AI results.
They discover why some people and organizations get better results from AI than others.
They make better decisions with AI on Monday.
Practical changes they can make right away to get better results with AI.
They keep talking about where they landed.
A shared experience that gives teams a common language for deciding with AI.
Why event teams book it
“Will my audience tune out?”
Not this time.
The audience becomes part of the keynote. They make the call, see how their colleagues decided, and discover something about how they think.
“We’ve already had an AI talk this year.”
This one is about your people, not the technology.
Built for your industry, from banking, insurance, and construction to public power, cybersecurity, HR, and sales teams. Don’t see yours? Dr. Lisa builds a scenario for your audience. It lands with a mixed room, frontline to C-suite.
“Will it fit our agenda?”
It’s built to drop in.
Leadership meetings, executive summits, association meetings, partner conferences, and sales kickoffs. Program copy is ready to paste below.
INCLUDED WITH EVERY KEYNOTE
Pre-event assessment
A three-minute decision-style assessment so the keynote runs on your attendees’ own answers.
Executive report-out
A 30-minute call with your executive sponsor on how your audience decides with AI.
CE-ready
Learning objectives and an outline for continuing education submission.
Book signing
When you order copies of Show AI—Don’t Tell It.
The continuous polling throughout your presentation was brilliant and kept folks engaged.
Lisa has done it all when so many are trying to.
For sales kickoffs
AI is already in every rep’s workflow. Some reps get better results from AI than others, and it’s showing up in attainment numbers. Dr. Lisa has sat on both sides of the table, buying technology as a CIO and selling it as a Microsoft and Splunk executive, and she brings both to your stage.
Recent sales stages: Seismic City Tours · Sales Success Summit
“Unbelievably fantastic! Dr. Lisa named something I’ve lived but never heard anyone talk about: buyers making decisions in private communities long before a seller shows up. I read and listen to everything in this space, and this isn’t coming through any other channel. I took notes like crazy and walked away energized.”
In-person keynotes start at $25,000, plus travel. Virtual keynotes start at $15,000.
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The room: Bank for International Settlements, Basel.
Proof
She put 36 central bank CIOs hands-on with AI at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, then led them in deciding which AI risks to tackle together.
Invited by the CIO of the US Federal Reserve.
Former CIO, Gartner VP, Microsoft and Splunk executive, board director, and author of Show AI—Don't Tell It (Wiley, 2026).
She bought it, sold it, governed it. Now she builds with it every day as founder and CEO of AI-native Neurocollective.
Selected stages
More keynotes
Same approach. Written for sales kickoffs, for the leaders who answer for AI risk, and for leaders who need AI's value to be seen.
For executives, boards and leadership teams
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.
For CROs, sales leaders and their teams
For CROs, sales leaders and their teams: how AI changes the buyer, the seller and the number.
For CIOs, CISOs, boards and regulated industries
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.
Everything you need to promote and run The Decision Experiment.
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Same AI. Different people. Different results. At our event, Dr. Lisa Palmer will show us why, and every one of us will be part of the experiment. Want a preview? Try it yourself: drlisa.ai/keynote?e=promo
Introduce Dr. Lisa
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The Decision Experiment
Dr. Lisa Palmer's Signature Interactive Keynote
Same AI. Different People. Different Results.
Why does the same AI pay off at one company and stall at another? Every day, people make thousands of human decisions with AI. Each one looks small. Together, they determine whether AI delivers real business value.
In The Decision Experiment, the audience becomes part of the evidence. Everyone gets the same AI-powered business scenario and makes a decision on their phone. Seconds later, the results appear on the big screen: same AI, same facts, surprisingly different decisions.
Dr. Lisa Palmer, former CIO, Gartner VP, Wiley author, and AI advisor to executives worldwide, uses those live results to reveal why some people and organizations get better results from AI than others. Drawing on her doctoral research and executive experience, she shows leaders the practical changes they can make right away.
Audiences leave with a clear view of their own role in AI success, practical changes to make on Monday, and a shared experience that sparks conversations long after the event.
The AI advantage your competitors can't buy is the judgment of your people.
Speaker bio
Short bio for your program and website.
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.
Emcee introduction
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Our next speaker has bought AI as a CIO, sold it as a Microsoft and Splunk executive, advised on it as a Gartner VP and governed it as a board director. Today she builds with it every day as founder and CEO of Neurocollective. She recently put 36 central bank CIOs hands-on with AI at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. Get your phones out, because every one of you becomes part of the experiment. Please welcome Dr. Lisa Palmer.
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Speaker one-sheet
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Learning objectives
Objectives and credit details for continuing education submission.
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The Decision Experiment: Learning objectives
After this session, participants will be able to:
1. Compare their own decision on a live, AI-supported business scenario with their peers' decisions, and explain why the same AI and the same information produced different choices.
2. Explain why some people and organizations get better results from AI than others.
3. Identify practical changes they can make in their own role to improve AI-assisted business results.
A timed session outline for CE submission is available on request.
Session details
Level: Basic. Prerequisites: None. Advance preparation: None (a three-minute pre-event assessment is optional).
Delivery: Group live or group internet-based, with live interactive polling throughout.
Credit hours: 1.0 for most credentialing bodies (up to 1.2 CPE under NASBA's 50-minute standard).
Credit by audience (the host or attendee confirms eligibility):
HR and L&D: SHRM PDCs and HRCI credits (host-filed); ATD CPTD/APTD (self-reported).
Finance, banking and accounting: NASBA CPE, Information Technology field; CFMA for construction finance.
IT and project leaders: PMI PDUs (Power Skills), CompTIA CEUs, ISACA CPE (self-reported).
Security: ISC2 CPE, Group A when delivered with the cybersecurity scenario, Group B otherwise (self-reported).
Engineering, construction and utilities: PDH for licensed engineers (self-reported).
Insurance: state CE when the host is an approved provider.
Board Leadership in the Age of AI: eligible for NASBA CPE (2.2 credits) and ISC2 CPE (0.75) through LinkedIn Learning, a registered CPE sponsor and ISC2 CPE Submitter Partner.
AI Strategy and Growth for the Modern Board: eligible for PMI PDUs (0.5) through LinkedIn Learning, a PMI Authorized Training Partner.
What the room needs
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