Speaking & Writing
The work I do happens in private rooms. This page is the part that doesn't: talks, panels, and writing on organizational change, AI governance, technology risk, and negotiation. If you want to know how I think before we ever have a conversation – start here.
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What changes when an organization runs AI models on hardware it controls – privacy, cost, model provenance, and who becomes responsible for guardrails when there's no cloud vendor in the loop. Includes a live local document-analysis demo.
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Product and engineering misalignment isn't a morale problem – it's a line item. This talk puts numbers on the rework, the stalled decisions, and the quiet duplication that show up when the two sides stop agreeing, and shows where the bill actually lands.
WatchThe IT and governance voice on a panel with HR and legal perspectives: what happens when AI enters hiring and performance decisions, and who's accountable when nobody agreed on the rules first.
View eventA panel of fractional executives on how early-stage startups get executive-level leadership long before they can afford executive-level payroll – when founders are actually ready for it, which functions matter most at each stage, and how fractional leaders de-risk the full-time hires that come later. Korey was the technology voice, on fractional CTO/CIO leadership through the jump from traction to real scale.
View eventCapable leaders don't make bad compromises because they don't know better – they compromise because pressure changes how they decide. A talk for negotiation-trained alumni on the FOG that clouds high-stakes decisions (fear, obligation, guilt), how bias turns into a coping mechanism when the stakes rise, and why AI is compressing the pressure systems companies already had.
Visit 88 OwlsA working session on the Model Context Protocol – the open standard Anthropic released to be the 'USB-C for AI,' collapsing the tangle of custom tool-to-data integrations into one shared language. Korey covered what MCP is, why it matters for an integration strategy, and live demos of connecting an AI assistant to local files and APIs through MCP servers.
Visit AI PioneersA panel on what fractional executive leadership actually is, when it makes sense for a growing company, and what founders should expect from a part-time leader with full-time accountability. Founders heard from a powerhouse panel of seasoned fractional executives – spanning sales, marketing, finance, non-profit, operations, AI strategy, HR, legal, and IT – who shared insider stories of how they solved real-world problems.
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What the Silicon Flatirons conference revealed about infrastructure risk: AI governance conversations stop at the software layer, while the real exposure – power, cooling, physical infrastructure, and the organizations that run them – goes unexamined.
Read articleMost of what I write about, I write about because I keep seeing it. If it sounds familiar, that's usually worth a conversation.
From the Archives
From the archives: a published testimonial on leading Rackspace Email's move away from a monolithic codebase – developer scalability, lower coupling, and consistency at scale. Still cited by Particular Software a decade later.
From the Rackspace Email years – how a large cloud email provider kept spam and viruses out of customer inboxes and protected deliverability at scale, and the technologies and partners behind it.
