The stage is my natural habitat
Once I’m up there, everything else fades away. All that’s left is getting a useful idea and a real emotion across to the room. I speak and I coach speakers, from schoolchildren to senior executives and politicians. I’ll gladly come to you too.
Five talks
Hybrid Mind
You bring experience. AI brings possibilities. How do you turn the exchange into work you understand and can stand behind?
Explore this talkCollaborative Fluency
A clear brief is only the beginning. Learn to question suggestions, revise your thinking and give the collaboration direction.
Explore this talkThe Science of Hybrid Intelligence
One headline says AI makes us smarter; another says it makes us lazy. Let’s look at what the studies actually measured.
Explore this talkCompensAItion
You can take the lift and still exercise your legs. Which parts of your thinking will you keep in practice?
Explore this talkManifesto of a Curious Child
“Why should I learn this if a machine can do it?” Let’s give that question the attention it deserves.
Explore this talkFind the right conversation
A keynote, a workshop, a panel or a conversation I help moderate. We’ll choose the format around your audience.
Keynote
A focused talk with ideas and examples your audience can use.
Workshop
Time to practise on a question or task your group brings.
Panel
A prepared perspective and room to think with the other speakers.
Moderation
Finding the useful question, the real disagreement and the people we have not heard yet.
Languages: English and Slovak
- 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
Experience behind the ideas
A working case study
I wrote AI for Smart Humans with substantial AI help. I can show how the collaboration worked, where it needed checking and why the human decisions mattered.
A teacher’s instinct
Debate coaching, Montessori teaching and co-founding the Academy of Critical Thinking taught me to bring an example, ask a question and give people something to try.
Experience of consequential decisions
Ten years in the Slovak parliament, four in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and work concerning Ukraine gave my questions about judgement and responsibility consequences beyond the classroom.
“This book will help you not only to be better at working with AI; it will also make you a better thinker.”
The questions behind the talks
I have taught first-graders, trained professionals and argued in parliament. The settings change, but one question follows me: how do we help people understand enough to make a better choice?
My talks bring that question into the age of AI, with stories, practical demonstrations and ideas the audience can test for themselves.
I like the moment when an audience stops nodding and starts thinking. My talks connect the large questions about AI with situations people recognise: a persuasive report, a difficult decision, a child asking why they should learn something a machine can do.
Expect stories, practical tools and the occasional question that follows you home.
Keynotes, panels and moderation
Tell me about your event
Who will be in the room, and what should they leave thinking about? Send me the date and what you have in mind.