KEYNOTES, WORKSHOPS & ADVISORY

Your people are already using AI. The question is whether it's making them sharper or making them lazy. Liz B. Baker equips organizations with a tested framework for using AI to develop critical thinking, wisdom, innovation, strategy, and ethics.

Liz B. Baker

Most Organizations Are Getting AI Wrong

They bought the licenses. Mandated the training. Sent the memos. And their people are using AI to write emails faster, summarize documents they should have read, and generate slide decks no one believes in.

Meanwhile, the research is stacking up. Students who use unconfigured AI perform worse than students who don't use AI at all. Professionals who trust AI the most verify its work the least. Harvard, Wharton, Boston Consulting Group, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences all point to the same conclusion.

The variable is how your people engage with AI.

AI is always an echo chamber. The question is what it echoes.

Configure it to echo speed and convenience, and you get faster mediocrity. Configure it to echo critical thinking, wisdom, innovation, strategy, and ethics, and you get people who are sharper, more discerning, and harder to replace. Not because they use AI. Because of who they become while using it.

That's what the AI Thinking Model does. And that's what Liz B. Baker teaches organizations to deploy.

THREE WAYS TO WORK WITH LIZ

Every engagement is built on the same framework. The depth and duration change. The mission doesn't.

Signature
Keynote

A high-impact talk that reframes how your audience thinks about AI. A fundamental shift in how your people relate to the most powerful thinking tool ever built.

  • Why unconfigured AI weakens thinking, backed by peer-reviewed research
  • The five capacities that turn AI from a shortcut into a development tool
  • How to configure any AI platform to coach you toward better thinking
  • The difference between prompting and configuring, and why it changes everything
  • Strategies your audience can implement the same day
60 – 90 minutes · In person or virtual · Up to 5,000 attendees
Ongoing
Advisory

For organizations that want more than an event. Advisory engagements embed the AI Thinking Model into your leadership development, talent strategy, and operational workflows over weeks or months.

  • Executive coaching on AI-augmented leadership and decision-making
  • AI strategy development aligned to organizational mission and values
  • Team-level configuration and deployment across departments
  • Change management for AI adoption that develops people and processes together
  • Ongoing partnership with measurable outcomes
Monthly retainer or project-based · Virtual and in person

WHAT YOUR AUDIENCE WALKS AWAY WITH

Infrastructure your people can use the moment they get back to their desks.

Why Configuration Matters

The research-backed case for why unconfigured AI degrades thinking, and what to do about it.

How to Configure

Step-by-step understanding of how to set up any AI platform as a thinking partner that develops you.

The Five Capacities

A shared language for critical thinking, wisdom, innovation, strategy, and ethics that your teams can use immediately.

Strategies They Own

Practical approaches for verifying AI outputs, protecting privacy, and maintaining sovereignty over their own thinking.

Free Wizard Access

Every attendee gets free access to the AI Thinking Model Configuration Wizard to build their personal configuration on their own time.

Organizational Clarity

Leaders leave understanding how to deploy AI thinking across teams, departments, and entire organizations.

TALKS THAT SHIFT HOW YOUR PEOPLE THINK

Every talk is customized to your audience and context. These are starting points.

The AI Thinking Model

The signature talk. Why most people use AI in ways that weaken their thinking, what the research says, and how configuring AI around five capacities reverses the damage. Based on the book.

AI for Us, Not to Us

A talk for leadership audiences about the difference between AI that serves you and AI that develops you. Why the organizations that thrive in the AI era won't be the ones that adopted fastest. They'll be the ones that adopted wisest.

Stop Prompting. Start Configuring.

A practical, energizing talk about why prompt engineering misses the point. Configuration is the variable. A single strategic setup shapes every future conversation your people have with AI.

Double Your Team in One Day

Your team already has AI. They just don't know how to use it yet. This talk covers why most AI pilots fail to deliver ROI, what a strategically AI-augmented workforce actually looks like, and how one day of configured AI deployment can double your team's capacity. Based on Nimbology's proprietary framework.

The Future of Work Is the Future of Thinking

A futurist perspective for boards, executives, and policy leaders. The skills that matter most in the AI era are not technical. They are cognitive. The organizations that invest in human thinking will outperform the ones that invest only in AI tools.

AI in Education: Developing Thinkers, Not Cheaters

For educators and administrators navigating AI in the classroom. Banning AI teaches students nothing. Configuring it teaches them to think. A practical framework for K-12 and higher education.

Don't see your topic? Liz speaks on AI strategy, change management, leadership development, nonprofit capacity building, and the intersection of AI and ethics. Let's talk about what your audience needs.

Built for the Organizations That Shape How People Think

The AI Thinking Model was designed for leaders who understand that AI adoption without human development is a liability.

  • Corporate leadership and executive teams
  • Government agencies and public sector organizations
  • Higher education institutions and faculty
  • K-12 school systems and districts
  • Nonprofit organizations and boards
  • Faith-based institutions and networks
  • Conferences, summits, and industry associations
  • Professional development and L&D departments

Credentials

Author
The AI Thinking Model: Reclaiming Critical Thinking in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Founder
Global Institute for AI and Humanity (GIAH)
Founder
Nimbology (AI strategy consultancy)
Background
20+ years Fortune 500 and nonprofit leadership: Verizon, MeadWestvaco, TIAA. Former Executive Director, Working Assembly of Governmental Employees.
Education
Fine Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University (studied under Kent Ipsen, Allan Rosenbaum, and Richard Carlyon)
Community
Co-founding member, AI Ready RVA; Former board member, Needle's Eye Faith & Work Community
Recognition
Two-time finalist, /rvatech Women in Tech Community Impact Award
Proprietary Frameworks
AI Thinking Model™, Double Your Team in One Day™, AI Coworker Blueprint™

The Book Goes Deeper

Every engagement is built on the framework in The AI Thinking Model. The book gives your audience the full architecture: the research, the five capacities, the configuration methodology, and the strategies for every area of life. Bulk orders available for events and organizations.

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Every organization is different. Let's talk about what this looks like for yours.

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