Speaking & Workshops
RE-DESIGNING ORGANIZATIONS, LEADERSHIP, AND TRUST FOR THE AI-ERA.
As AI reshapes how we work, decide, and govern, the structures we've relied on are reaching their limits.
Sonali Sharma brings two decades of experience across organizational strategy, innovation, and systems transformation to provocative keynotes and practical workshops on AI adoption, collective intelligence, and ethical leadership.
Drawing on The 90% Code, her sessions challenge assumptions, open new possibilities, and give organizations frameworks to rethink how they operate.
FEATURED KEYNOTE · BCIT · OCTOBER 2026Building Digital Resilience in an AI-Driven World
NAVIGATING AI ADOPTION, EMERGING RISKS, AND THE TRUST INFRASTRUCTURE ORGANIZATIONS NEED TO THRIVE.
Opening BCIT's Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Sonali Sharma engaged 120 faculty, staff, and students in a conversation about building organizational resilience as AI transforms the cybersecurity landscape.
Drawing on The 90% Code and its AI Trust Framework, the keynote explored three critical shifts:
From centralized control to distributed intelligence
From technology deployment to continuous systems redesign
From trust as an aspiration to trust as infrastructure
The session introduced five dimensions of trustworthy AI — honesty, growth, power, fairness, and accountability — as a practical foundation for responsible adoption.
“Sonali delivered an inspiring and thought-provoking keynote on Building Digital Resilience in an AI-Driven World. The feedback from our community was overwhelmingly positive. Her perspective on moving beyond the traditional Hero Model toward distributed leadership, collective intelligence, and shared ownership was both timely and highly relevant as we navigate the complexity of the AI era. She truly knocked it out of the park.”
— Sunny Jassal
CISO, British Columbia Institute of Technology | President, ISACA Vancouver
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Explore keynotes and facilitated workshops on AI adoption, organizational redesign, collective intelligence, and trust.
Keynotes & Speaking Topics
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01 · REDESIGNING ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE AI ERA
Why AI Transformation demands more than technology adoption.
AI is distributing intelligence while organizations remain built around concentrated authority. This keynote examines the growing mismatch between technological capability and organizational design, exploring how decision rights, workflows, accountability, and human capability must evolve to make organizations genuinely AI-ready.
Audience takeaway: Where organizational redesign must begin to unlock AI's potential.
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02 · TRUST AS AI INFRASTRUCTURE
Building AI systems that earn trust and preserve human agency.
Trustworthy AI requires more than technical safeguards and governance policies. Drawing on The 90% Code AI Trust Framework, this keynote explores five dimensions: honesty, growth, power, fairness, and accountability, examining how AI affects human judgment, who benefits, who decides, and who remains accountable.
Audience takeaway: A practical framework for identifying AI trust gaps and strengthening responsible adoption.
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03 · THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
Distributed doesn’t mean disconnected.
Collective intelligence goes beyond collaboration or consensus. Drawing on The 90% Code's Collective Intelligence Framework, this keynote explores how organizations unlock the intelligence of the many through shared purpose, distributed authority, transparent information, and accountability, turning collective knowledge into coordinated decisions and action.
Audience takeaway: How to build organizations that think, decide, and act collectively.
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04 · FROM MANAGEMENT TO STEWARDSHIP
Building with ethical foresight for generations yet to come.
Our decisions increasingly shape futures we may never experience, yet institutions remain governed by short-term incentives. This keynote explores ethical foresight, intergenerational accountability, and how to design systems that consider irreversible consequences, give voice to future generations, and make long-term responsibility durable.
Audience takeaway: How to move beyond ethical intentions toward structures that sustain responsibility across generations.
INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS
REDESIGNING SYSTEMS. BUILDING CAPABILITY. CREATING LASTING CHANGE.
REDESIGNING LEADERSHIP, TEAMS, AND GOVERNANCE FOR THE AI ERA.
AI-ready organizations need more than new tools and technical skills. They need leadership structures and ways of working that can harness distributed intelligence while maintaining coherence, trust, and accountability.
Drawing on The 90% Code, this workshop explores how cross-functional human-AI teams, relational intelligence, systems stewardship, and shared governance models can reshape organizational design for an AI-enabled future.
Participants will:
Explore leadership structures and team models that enable human-AI collaboration.
Apply relational intelligence and systems stewardship to AI-enabled organizational challenges.
Examine shared governance, distributed decision rights, and accountability.
Outcome: An initial AI-ready organizational blueprint identifying practical shifts in leadership, team structures, and governance.
01 · THE AI-READY ORGANIZATION LAB
FROM RESPONSIBLE AI PRINCIPLES TO PRACTICAL GOVERNANCE.
Trustworthy AI requires more than technical safeguards and governance policies. Organizations need to understand not only whether AI improves productivity today, but whether it strengthens or erodes human capability, judgment, and autonomy over time.
Drawing on The 90% Code AI Trust Framework, this workshop examines five dimensions: honesty, growth, power, fairness, and accountability, helping teams assess how AI is deployed, who benefits, who holds decision-making power, and what meaningful accountability looks like.
Participants will:
Assess current or planned AI deployments across the five dimensions of trust.
Examine short-term productivity gains against long-term human capability and dependency risks.
Identify gaps in transparency, fairness, human agency, and accountability.
Outcome: An initial AI trust assessment with prioritized actions for responsible adoption.
02 · THE AI-TRUST DIAGNOSTIC LAB
03 · THE IMPACT SYSTEMS- CHANGE LAB
FROM PROGRAM-LEVEL IMPACT TO REGENERATIVE SYSTEMS CHANGE.
Lasting impact requires more than effective programs. It demands understanding how policies, economic incentives, institutions, and power structures intersect to produce persistent social and environmental challenges.
Drawing on The 90% Code, this workshop combines systems stewardship, collective intelligence, ethical foresight, and regenerative design to identify deeper leverage points for change and rethink how lasting impact is created and measured.
Participants will:
Map interconnected policy, economic, social, and institutional drivers of complex challenges.
Identify leverage points for regenerative design, collective action, and systems-level interventions.
Apply ethical foresight and systems-oriented impact measurement to assess structural change, long-term outcomes, and unintended consequences.
Outcome: An initial systems change roadmap identifying priority interventions, opportunities for collaboration, and indicators for measuring lasting impact.
Podcasts and Conversations.
THE LOW-DOWN | ANALYSIS.TECH
Rewriting Power for the AI Era
A conversation with Rob Koplowitz and Andy Bartels on AI governance, technofeudalism, ethics, and why collective intelligence matters as AI reshapes how organizations operate.
TECH SNIPPETS TODAY | JOSEPH RACZYNSKI
When AI Augmentation Turns Into Human Deletion
A conversation with Joseph Raczynski on AI augmentation, the erosion of human agency, and why preserving human judgment and trust matters as AI reshapes our future..
ENTERPRISE PODCAST NETWORK | ERIC DYE
The 90% Code: Rewriting Power for the AI Era
A conversation with Eric Dye on the end of hero-driven leadership, the concentration of power, and why distributed ownership and collective intelligence matter in the AI era.
Meet the Author
The central question of this moment is not what a single brilliant mind can do. It is what many minds can do together.
The 90% Code is an operating system for governing the AI-era complexity without concentrating power.
AI STRATEGY, MIT xPRO
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STRATEGY, HBS
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TIMES SHE UNLTD ENTREPRENEUR
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PUBLIC SERVICE LEADER
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DESIGN THINKING, MIT
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ENTREPRENEUR IN RESIDENCE
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Innovation Governance Professional, CCI
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AI STRATEGY, MIT xPRO ・ STRATEGY, HBS ・ MBA ・ TIMES SHE UNLTD ENTREPRENEUR ・ PUBLIC SERVICE LEADER ・ DESIGN THINKING, MIT ・ ENTREPRENEUR IN RESIDENCE ・ Innovation Governance Professional, CCI ・
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