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Executive Education, Speaking & Convenings

Human-Centered AI Learning for Corporate Leaders, Institutions & Organizations

Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi designs and leads executive education experiences, speaking engagements, and convenings that help leaders and institutions navigate AI-enabled transformation with greater clarity, strategic insight, and human-centered leadership.

Grounded in real-world implementation, these experiences strengthen communication, decision-making, governance, stakeholder engagement, and organizational capability in increasingly AI-enabled environments.

Programs integrate executive education, collaborative intelligence, human-centered AI frameworks, and applied learning experiences designed to support both immediate application and long-term institutional transformation.

Ways to Engage

Custom learning and leadership experiences, designed around your audience, strategic priorities, and delivery environment.

Keynotes & featured talks

Conferences, leadership summits, annual meetings, and large-scale gatherings

Executive briefings

Boards, executive teams, leadership retreats, and decision-makers assessing AI priorities

Interactive workshops

Leadership cohorts and cross-functional teams seeking practical application

Half-day and full-day intensives

Deeper skill-building, strategic alignment, and structured working sessions

Multi-session and multi-day programs

Executive education, academic programs, leadership academies, and sustained organizational learning

Moderation, panels & fireside conversations

Convenings that need informed, engaging facilitation around AI, leadership, and institutional change

Available in person, online, or in hybrid formats for corporations, universities, leadership teams, associations, conferences, and global convenings.

Leadership Themes and Conversation Areas

Liz’s executive education, speaking, and convening work can be tailored around the leadership questions organizations are facing now—from AI adoption and workforce transformation to governance, communication, and institutional capability.

Talk 1

Human‑Centered AI Leadership: From Experimentation to Accountable Adoption

A cross‑sector briefing for leaders moving beyond pilots and tools toward real institutional change. This talk explores how to design AI adoption around human judgment, governance, and institutional integrity—so organizations strengthen culture, decision‑making, and trust as intelligent systems scale.

Talk 2

1+1+AI=10™: The Human Equation for High‑Performing Institutions

Liz's core methodology session, applicable to corporate, academic, public, and social‑impact contexts. It reframes AI as an amplifier of human expertise and collaboration, introduces the 1+1+AI=10™ framework, and offers practical ways leaders can combine individual judgment, collective intelligence, and AI‑enabled amplification to achieve 10x outcomes without losing what makes leadership human.

Talk 3

AI, Work & the Future of Leadership

A broad, workforce‑focused keynote for any organization facing shifts in roles, skills, and work design. This talk examines how AI is changing work across professions—from frontline roles to executive decision‑making—and outlines principles for reskilling, communication, and governance that keep people, dignity, and agency at the center of transformation.

Talk 4

Storytelling in the Age of AI: The SHINE™ Framework for Leading Change

A cross‑sector communication intensive for leaders who need to explain complex AI‑driven change to diverse stakeholders. Centered on the SHINE™ Storytelling Framework, this talk shows how to translate technical transformation into narratives people can understand, trust, and act on—whether the audience is employees, boards, regulators, donors, or the public.

Relevant across enterprise technology, workforce and labor, health and access, financial markets, legal and regulated professions, higher education, associations, and public-benefit organizations.

Engagements can be tailored around AI leadership, governance, workforce transformation, institutional capability, strategic communication, and responsible adoption.

Designed for Your Context

Liz designs human-centered AI leadership experiences around an organization’s people, priorities, and decision environment.

Each engagement draws on the relevant combination of executive education, collaborative intelligence, strategic communication, applied AI learning, and human-centered AI frameworks—configured to meet the needs of the audience and the institution’s goals.


Liz’s executive education work includes the development and teaching of AI for Impact at New York University, alongside customized leadership learning, convenings, and AI-enabled experiences across sectors.


Formats & Delivery

Liz’s work spans keynotes, executive briefings, workshops, intensives, and multi‑day programs for leaders across sectors. Drawing on years of executive education and convening experience, she designs learning in multiple formats:

Session lengths

30–60 minute keynotes; 90–120 minute interactive sessions; half‑day and full‑day intensives; multi‑session and multi‑day programs modeled on her NYU and executive education courses.

Delivery modes

In‑person, online, and hybrid—adapted for conferences, board and C‑suite offsites, university programs, association meetings, and global convenings.

Roles

Keynote speaker, moderator, panelist, fireside‑conversation partner, and session facilitator, depending on what the program or convening requires.

Custom executive education programs, leadership intensives, workshops, and institutional learning experiences are available for corporations, universities, leadership teams, conferences, and global convenings.

Representative Leadership Experiences & Institutional Engagements

Selected speaking engagements, convenings, and institutional collaborations that show how human-centered AI leadership shows up in practice across sectors and formats.

This curated snapshot highlights leadership experiences across sectors, formats, and institutions—from keynote stages and academic programs to convenings where human-centered AI leadership is being put into practice.

The Frameworks Behind the Work

Liz’s executive education experiences and talks are anchored in original frameworks that help leaders turn human-centered AI from an aspiration into a practical leadership discipline—strengthening judgment, alignment, communication, governance, and institutional capability.

AI-NATIVE COLLABORATIVE INTELLIGENCE METHODOLOGY: 1+1+AI=10™

The 1+1+AI=10™ methodology shows how individual expertise, collective intelligence, and AI-enabled amplification can work together to strengthen leadership, communication, governance, innovation, and organizational capability.

The methodology supports more participatory, ethical, and scalable approaches to AI-enabled transformation.

STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK: SHINE™

Originally developed for storytelling and stakeholder engagement, the framework now supports executive education, leadership communication, organizational alignment, and AI-enabled learning environments across sectors.

INSTITUTIONAL AI & DIGITAL ROADMAP FRAMEWORK

A practical, four-phase framework that helps leaders and institutions assess their current AI landscape, identify meaningful opportunities and risks, align stakeholders, and build a governed path forward.

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  • Discovery & Context
    Understanding institutional priorities, workflows, systems, and stakeholder realities to establish a clear picture of how work happens today.
  • Assessment & Insight
    Analyzing workflows, documentation, knowledge management, and AI readiness to surface gaps, risks, and meaningful opportunities.
  • Prioritization & Design
    Evaluating opportunities by impact, feasibility, and governance needs, then shaping practical, human-centered AI and digital solutions.
  • Roadmap & Alignment
    Translating insights into a phased, multi-year roadmap and aligning leadership around sequencing, responsibilities, and next steps.

It supports prioritization based on impact, feasibility, and governance needs, while producing executive-ready outputs including a findings summary, opportunity map, and phased roadmap for implementation.

LEADERSHIP MODELS & AI-ERA STRATEGIC LENSES

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The Arc of AI

Exploring how humanity’s relationship with AI is evolving from passive algorithmic influence toward collaborative intelligence, stewardship, co-creation, and amplified human agency.

ROI of AI

Understanding AI’s practical organizational value through the amplification of time, quality, operational effectiveness, communication, and institutional capability.

Technology Reflects Intentions

A human-centered governance lens recognizing that technologies themselves are neutral, while outcomes are shaped by leadership, governance, incentives, ethics, and implementation choices.

These models support executive education, governance discussions, leadership development, workforce transformation initiatives, and organizational strategy by helping leaders navigate AI not simply as a technology shift, but as a broader transformation in human systems, institutional capability, communication, and collaborative intelligence.

Together, these frameworks give organizations a shared language for making better decisions, designing responsible adoption, and leading change with greater clarity and confidence.

From Learning to Institutional Action

The goal is not simply AI literacy. It is stronger institutional judgment: leaders who can assess opportunities, communicate change, align stakeholders, and make responsible decisions as AI becomes more embedded in how work gets done.

What partners and audiences say about the work

Voices from partners, hosts, and audiences who have experienced the work firsthand. These reflections highlight the clarity, trust, and practical value that human-centered AI leadership brings across sectors and settings.

S&P Global “AI in the Markets” Summit 2025

“I received significant post-event feedback on how insightful your remarks were. You’re certainly a wonderful thought partner to have.”

Sudeep Kesh

Managing Director, Innovation & Disruptive Technology at S&P Global Ratings

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Healthcare Technology Executive AI Immersive

“Your insights gave us the actionable strategies, platforms, and tools we need to innovate… This is the best summit we’ve ever had.”

Alyssa Smith

Marketing Operations Manager at Healthcare Technology Company

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Executive Education Experience | Human-Centered Learning at NYU

“I joined to explore how generative AI could meaningfully enhance human connection. I left inspired by its potential to expand creativity, accessibility, and inclusion without replacing the magic only humans bring.

Thank you, Professor Ngonzi. Grateful for the spark and excited for what’s next.”

Ilaria Dutto

Brand Director, Eataly North America

NYU SPS – AI for Impact: Boost Your Marketability and Organizational Growth

“Your passion and guidance showed us that AI is about much more than technology! It’s a powerful tool to amplify creativity, strengthen leadership, and create meaningful impact.

One of my biggest takeaways was the SHINE™ Storytelling Framework… Another lesson that will stay with me is the 1+1+AI=10™ methodology, reinforcing that the combination of human creativity, critical thinking, and AI can unlock extraordinary possibilities."

Pedro Luiz Curcio Lauro

Grant Thornton Brasil, Clients & Markets Operations

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Miami University AI Symposium 2026

“Liz Ngonzi spoke about how human leadership is becoming more essential as AI systems evolve. Her work centers human agency, collective wisdom, and collaborative partnership with AI tools.”

“The future is profoundly human.”

Miami University IT Services

Third Annual AI Symposium Recap (2026)

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USAID-Power Africa Sustainability Roadmap Initiative

“Ngonzi facilitated the development of the WIEN sustainability plan and the journey map for the next two to three years.”

— Funmi Ogbue, President, Women in Energy Nigeria Network (WIEN)

USAID-Power Africa / Women in Energy Nigeria Initiative (2022)

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Learning Philosophy

Liz’s executive education approach combines strategic insight, practical implementation, collaborative learning, and human-centered leadership.

Rather than focusing solely on AI tools, her programs help participants understand how leadership, governance, communication, culture, and decision-making evolve in increasingly AI-enabled environments.

Each experience is designed to strengthen both institutional capability and the human judgment required to lead responsibly, communicate clearly, and navigate complexity in a rapidly changing world.

Bring Human-Centered AI Leadership to Your Organization

Whether you are convening a leadership community, strengthening executive capability, or building institutional readiness for AI-enabled change, Liz designs experiences that meet leaders where they are—and help them move forward with greater clarity, capability, and accountability.

Available in person, online, and in hybrid formats for corporations, universities, boards, leadership teams, associations, and global convenings


AI is most powerful when it amplifies human judgment, creativity, collaboration, and institutional wisdom rather than replacing them.

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