New tricks for old brains.
For thirty years, I’ve helped people think and communicate better, and I’ve seen it work where it counts: in business, international organisations, politics and schools. Now it’s your turn. Let’s bring what makes you unique into the AI age.
- Over 30 years
- teaching critical thinking
- 3×
- elected to the Slovak parliament
- 4 years
- in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- 8,400+
- copies sold across my books
- 500+ teams
- trained through the Academy of Critical Thinking
Give the room something to think about
I live for the sparks: the moments someone in the room goes, ‘Oh! Interesting.’ I talk with my whole body, laugh easily, take on hard subjects and send people home with questions they can’t put down.
In English or Slovak · keynote, workshop, panel or moderation
Why I work on this
Every forty-eight hours, the AI conversation starts again. A new model. A new app. Another prediction about how everything is about to change. Keeping up can feel like a second job.
Meanwhile, you have spent years learning your profession, developing your judgement and finding your own way of doing things. You know the value of that experience. You want to understand what these machines can offer while remaining yourself.
My talks help people bring that experience into the AI era. We explore thinking patterns your audience can put to work: asking better questions, challenging convincing answers and creating work that remains unmistakably their own.
I bring over thirty years of teaching critical thinking and experience from business, politics and public life into the room. My book, AI for Smart Humans, gives you a way to keep exploring the ideas afterwards.
From spark to skill
A good talk starts something. A workshop makes it stick. With my colleagues at the Academy of Critical Thinking, we work on the problems your people actually have, from a 60-minute session to a programme lasting months.
For teams
Bring a proposal, a difficult decision or an AI answer that looks suspiciously perfect. We’ll work through it together.
For educators
What makes a child want to learn when a machine can do the assignment? Drawing on Montessori teaching and the Manifesto of a Curious Child, we help learners find reasons to ask, explore and keep going.
AI for Smart Humans
How to Stay Uniquely You in a World of Increasingly Intelligent Machines
I combine my own life experience with the latest research and tell it the way a good friend would on a long walk. The book itself is proof that hybrid intelligence pays off. I let AI bring out the best in me, and the result was praised by a man James Bond would have called boss.
“A very original and unusual handbook about the use of AI: the ‘thinking about thinking’ man’s guide to living advantageously with AI.”
Sir Richard Dearlove · Former Chief of MI6
Black Spring Press, London
- Start with your own thinking.
- Find the gaps between your understanding and AI’s.
- Build arguments you can explain and defend.
- Use CompensAItion to choose which abilities you want to keep practising.
Before you ask AI, make a sketch
The Sketch
What would you do if AI were unavailable? Put your first thoughts on paper. Then bring the machine into the conversation.
You were about to ask…
Good. Questions are where most of my work begins: trust, learning, responsibility, convincing nonsense. Start with the one that has been bothering you.
Letters to Smart Humans
My mind wanders widely: from training rooms, AI and cognitive science to political campaigns and business consulting. When I find something useful, I’ll send it your way.