Pathways to Collaborate
You can believe in stakeholder value. You can sign the Business Roundtable statement. You can mean it. But if your systems are still designed for extraction, if your incentives still reward quarterly thinking, you will reproduce the patterns you're trying to change.
Ethical foresight is what makes the difference—the capacity to design for consequences you will not personally experience. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy's Seven Generations Principle feels abstract until you do the math. Your great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, you, your children, your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren. Many of us will meet both ends of that chain in our lifetimes. Suddenly, the principle becomes visceral.
The 90% Code, Chapter 6: Ethical Foresight
Keynotes, fireside conversations, and podcast appearances—reframing AI, leadership, and power for audiences ready to think structurally. Four signature talks, each built on the same argument: the systems we're scaling weren't designed for what we're scaling them into.
For conferences, executive summits, university audiences, and editorial conversations.
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The Hero Model that built the last century cannot govern the next one—and AI is accelerating its collapse. This talk re-envisions leadership for AI-active organizations and lays the foundation for distributed power: the architecture that determines whether AI integrates successfully, scales hierarchy further, or stalls inside organizations not built to absorb it.
Best for: Corporate leadership offsites, executive conferences, transformation summits, senior leadership development programs.
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Every AI framework asks whether systems are technically sound. None asks whether they are trustworthy to the people they affect. This talk makes that gap visible—and names the architecture that closes it.
For: AI governance forums, boards, public sector summits, responsible AI events, regulated industries.
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AI doesn't make humans obsolete. It makes the human system—how we see, decide, relate, and steward—the decisive variable in what AI ends up being. The capacities that matter most now are the ones AI can't replicate and most organizations have systematically eroded: relational intelligence, systems stewardship, ethical foresight. This talk names what we bring that AI can't, why those capacities are infrastructure not personality, and what changes when an organization treats them that way.
For: leadership development programs, board education, sustainability and ESG forums, university leadership audiences, executive learning conferences.
The Lab is for organizations choosing to build their operating system for the AI era—where authority distributes by design, trust holds as infrastructure, and AI scales capability without concentrating power.
These are partnerships, not engagements. The 90% Code is a living framework—we bring the architecture, you bring the organization, and what emerges builds the practice forward. Long-term, co-developmental, and intentionally selective. We take on a small number of partners each year.
What Partnership would look like
You are building the new operating system—embedded with leadership and the teams doing the work, not advising from the outside.
We work alongside, not from outside—embedded with leadership and the teams doing the work, not advising from the outside.
Long-term by design—supporting end-to-end transformation initiatives, from diagnosis through to outcomes.
Mutual Stake—build an operating system that lasts. The framework sharpens through the work. Both sides walk away with something that lasts.
Who this is for
Lab partnerships are for organizations that have already decided the operating system itself needs to change. Not the strategy. Not the tooling. The way authority moves, decisions get made, and trust functions inside the organization.
You're likely a fit if:
You're past diagnosis. You don't need to be convinced the current model is breaking — you're looking for what to build instead.
Leadership is aligned on direction. Not on the details, but on the fact that incremental change isn't enough.
You're deploying AI, or about to. And you've recognized that how you deploy it depends on the operating system underneath it.
You can hold long timelines. Operating systems don't change in a quarter, and you're not looking for a quick win.
You're willing to be a partner, not a client. What we build, we build together.
Who this isn't for
Organizations looking for a methodology to implement
Teams seeking advisory input on a defined problem
Leadership that wants the framework but not the work
Anyone looking for a short-cycle engagement or a productized service
If you're in any of these, the Speaking or Workshop offerings are likely a better fit.
Start a conversation
Lab partnerships begin with a conversation, not a proposal. We'll spend 45 minutes together—you tell me what you're seeing inside the system, I'll tell you whether Lab is the right vehicle for it. If it's not, I'll say so.
Short-form programs that translate the 90% Code framework into applied practice—moving leadership teams from concept to capability. Each program is built for a specific moment in an organization's arc, using the canvases, diagnostics, and frameworks at the heart of the book.
Launching in two waves alongside the book. A curated first cohort will run the inaugural programs—join the waitlist for early access.
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For leadership teams whose organizations are about to deploy AI at scale — or are mid-deployment and feeling the friction. The tech rollout is exposing structural gaps in governance, decision-making, and trust that the existing operating model can't hold. This workshop runs a structural diagnostic of where the operating system is breaking, identifies the governance gaps that AI is about to widen, and surfaces the first decisions that need to be made before the tech goes deeper.
AVAILABLE NOW
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For organizations, communities, governments, cooperatives, and NGOs that have read The 90% Code and recognized the need to redesign governance and leadership to match the existential velocity of the change. This workshop is for those who believe in the core thesis and want to build for what comes next — the future where authority distributes by design, trust holds as infrastructure, and AI scales capability without concentrating power.
LAUNCHING SEPTEMBER 2026, WITH THE BOOK
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For AI builders and adopters working the same problem from different sides. This workshop runs a dual-lens assessment across the five dimensions of AI trust — does the system know what it doesn't know, does it build human capability or erode it, does it distribute power or concentrate it, does it engage the full range of human experience, and can it be held to account. The gaps surface where they actually matter: between what builders claim the system does and what the people affected by it experience.
LAUNCHING SEPTEMBER 2026, WITH THE BOOK
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For leadership in NGOs, foundations, social enterprises, and mission-driven institutions facing a quiet paradox: organizations that exist to distribute power, equity, and value in the world, but whose own operating models often concentrate them internally. This workshop applies the three infrastructures lens — economic (who owns and captures value), democratic (who decides), trust (how it functions inside) — to surface where the organization's own model contradicts its mission, and identifies the first redesign decisions to bring the how into alignment with the why.
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2026, WITH THE BOOK
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