Speaking & Keynotes
Dr. Rhoderick J. Ramsey speaks to leadership teams, professional associations, and organizations navigating AI adoption, performance challenges, and workforce change. His sessions draw from active consulting work and are built for audiences who need practical insight, not theory.
IN THE MEDIA
Ed Tech Hour, Episode 37: Insight Digital Magazine
Podcast guest discussing AI in education and what responsible AI adoption looks like for organizations. Listen Here.
Voyage Dallas Magazine
Featured as a Dallas entrepreneur building people-centered organizations in a technology-driven world. Read it here.
Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce
Regular contributing writer on leadership, performance, and AI readiness for business leaders.
SEE DR. RAMSEY IN ACTION
SOAR Strategy Lab | April 2025
Watch a live facilitation segment where small business owners work through a SOAR exercise (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Results) using a fictional restaurant to identify strategic priorities and map a path to better performance.
SOAR for Entrepreneurs Workshop | February 2025
A facilitation segment covering how to prepare a team for a strengths-based planning exercise, including what leaders need to do before the team gets to work.
Keynotes
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Don't Be the Case Study: AI Governance and Workforce Readiness
Most organizations are adopting AI faster than they are building the structure to manage it. This session covers how to identify ungoverned AI activity, establish practical guardrails, and build the people readiness your organization needs before a governance failure becomes a headline. Built around the KNOW ecosystem, attendees leave with a framework for responsible AI adoption that connects directly to operations, compliance, and workforce performance.
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Close the Gap: How Leaders Misdiagnose Performance Problems and What to Do Instead
Most performance problems get treated at the symptom level. Leaders chase the wrong fix, spend money on training that does not stick, and wonder why nothing changes. This session shows how to identify the real constraint behind a performance gap, involve the right people, and build solutions that hold in real operating conditions. Rooted in the KNOW ecosystem, this talk reframes how leaders think about diagnosis before they invest in solutions.
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Dust It Off and Try Again: Your Job Descriptions Need an AI Update
AI is reshaping what every role in your organization actually requires, but most leaders are still evaluating people against job descriptions written for a world that no longer exists. This talk challenges leaders to look honestly at the gap between what their people are being measured on and what the work actually demands today. Drawing on the KNOWecosystemâ„¢, this session reframes AI workforce readiness as a leadership and strategy issue, not a training problem, and gives leaders a new lens for thinking about role design, performance expectations, and organizational capability in an AI-augmented environment.
PAST ENGAGEMENTS
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AI and the Future of Work, Panel Guest | The Chicago School | November 2025
Joined a panel discussion on how AI is reshaping workforce expectations and what organizations need to build now to keep people and technology aligned.
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Adaptive Learning Tools | The Chicago School Lunch and Learn Series | February 2025
Explored how adaptive learning tools can personalize development and improve knowledge retention for learners, and also raises the Fairness ethical concern.
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AI in the Classroom, Podcast Guest | Ed Tech Hour, Episode 37, The Chicago School | October 2024
Discussed practical approaches to integrating AI into educational environments and what responsible AI adoption looks like for institutions and their people.
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AI Friend, Not Foe: Integrating AI into the Curriculum | Family and Consumer Science Teacher Summer Professional Development Conference, Dallas, TX | June 2024
Helped educators reframe AI as a practical teaching tool and walked through concrete strategies for curriculum integration without sacrificing learning outcomes.
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From Webinar Fatigue to Engagement: Implementing Problem-Based Learning in Your Online Learning Environment | International Society for Performance Improvement Conference, Nashville, TN | April 2022
Facilitated a hybrid workshop on applying problem-based learning to virtual environments to drive deeper engagement and measurable knowledge transfer.
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