Available for keynotes, panels, podcasts, and workshops. Chris brings the same diagnostic listening to a stage that he brings everywhere else - substance over performance, recognition over motivation.
From boardroom keynotes to technical deep-dives to a few deliberate provocations. Every talk is built for the room in front of me, never delivered off the shelf. A sample of what I am speaking on now:
The four capacities that decide whether AI amplifies your best thinking or quietly stands in for it. A human-development talk for the AI age, drawn from philosophy, the science of judgment, and over two decades of navigating without maps.
Most AI rollouts go quiet within weeks, and the technology is rarely the reason. This is the human half of adoption: the permission, the leadership, and the conditions that turn a tool a company bought into a way the company actually works.
The most important AI hire many companies are making sits in the wrong department. The case for housing AI enablement where adoption actually lives, inside a people-centered function, and what changes the moment you do.
AI is superhuman at some tasks and confidently wrong on others, and the border between them moves every month. A working tour of that jagged edge for the people who build on it, and how to tell which side of the line you are standing on.
Prompt tricks expire with the next release. Specifications and tests last. How to build AI systems on the layer that holds, the discipline that separates a slick demo from something you can run a business on.
Everyone says to give AI context, then treats context as a minor input. It is the whole game. Why articulating what you actually mean is the most valuable skill in the AI era, and why so few people do the work.
AI multiplies whatever you bring it, including what you never developed. The quiet cost of adopting AI faster than you grow the judgment to wield it, and how to build the kind of judgment that compounds.
The story behind building Colorado's top-rated inn, selling two businesses, and designing a life in a small mountain town. A navigation story told honestly, and the same one most people in the room are quietly living.
Chris W. Greene helps people and organizations build the human capacities that decide whether AI deepens their judgment or quietly replaces it. He is the creator of the WILD Intelligence framework and the founder of The WILD Navigation Company, where he builds and runs production AI systems every day and advises leaders on putting them to work. A tenured professor of innovation and entrepreneurship for thirteen years, he holds a JD from the University of Colorado, a Certified Financial Manager credential, and certifications across Anthropic's Claude Code, API, Model Context Protocol, and Agent Skills courses. With his wife Andrea he built and sold two businesses, including Colorado's top-rated boutique inn. He is the author of the forthcoming WILD Intelligence: Navigating the Mapless Age, and he lives and works at ten thousand feet in Crested Butte, Colorado.
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The stage work grew out of more than twenty years of rooms: thirteen years as a tenured professor of innovation and entrepreneurship, a national outstanding-teaching award from the Experiential Classroom clinic at the University of Florida, the AI in Action series for business and community leaders, and more than 1,500 people trained to fold AI into how they actually work, from boardrooms to people quietly afraid of it. He teaches business law and ethics at Fort Lewis College today. New engagements and podcast appearances are added here as they happen.
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