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Speaking

I speak on the work I do — institutional IT, leadership, transformation, and the work behind both.

Topics I Speak On

Sessions are organized by area of expertise. Representative titles appear under each. If your program needs something adjacent to what's shown, it's likely within one of these areas — the right first move is a conversation.

Technology Governance for Institutions

Enterprise technology decisions have grown faster than the governance systems meant to manage them. Sessions in this area cover vendor management, ERP and enterprise systems governance, third-party risk frameworks, and the board-level technology conversations institutional leaders need to be having.

  • Vendor sprawl is killing higher-ed IT — and the assessment that fixes it.
  • The fractional CIO model that actually works for under-resourced institutions.
  • What no one's telling the board about their technology vendor stack.

Transformidable Leadership

Sessions in this area draw from The Transformidable Leader (2026) and address what leadership actually requires when institutional decisions carry weight — closing the gap between vision and outcome, holding the room when something has already broken, and running programs when the schedule is already gone.

  • Closing the gap between vision and outcome: what Transformidable leadership actually looks like.
  • Leadership after the recovery: what it takes to hold the room when something has already broken.
  • Running a program that isn't going to plan: leading when the schedule is already gone.

Representation and Systems in Technology

Sessions in this area address the underexamined history and current reality of Black women and other underrepresented professionals in computing and technology fields, and the systemic conditions that shape whether they enter, stay, or withdraw.

  • Why high-performing women are withdrawing from work — and what institutions lose when they do.
  • Beyond Hidden Figures: what we still don't know about Black women in computing.
  • The invisible ceiling in technology leadership: what changes when we name it.

AI Governance

AI governance appears across the topic areas above rather than as a separate category. Sessions can bring the AI angle to institutional technology governance, leadership in an AI-shifting workplace, or systems questions about representation and bias — scoped to what the program actually needs.

  • Governing AI in the institution: a practitioner's playbook for boards and presidents.
  • The AI-shifting workplace: what leaders need to know now.
  • When the model has a blind spot: AI governance and the representation question.

What I Need to Say Yes

Honoraria
Available on inquiry; scales with audience and travel.
Tech
Lavalier or handheld preferred; will present from my own laptop unless the venue requires otherwise.
Travel
Based in North Carolina. Domestic and international travel with reasonable lead time.
Lead time
Eight weeks preferred. Shorter windows considered for the right room.
What I'll say yes to
Higher-ed IT, transformation leadership, women in technology, governance of complex programs.
What I won't
Sponsored content disguised as keynotes; panels with no curation; vendor pitch sessions.

Inquire about speaking

Give me the room, the date, the audience, and what you'd like the takeaway to be. I'll respond within a week.