Speaking

Talks for rooms that don't want a tech-vendor pitch.

Forty-five to sixty minutes, audience-specific, no slide soup. Below: a reel (when one exists), the topics I'm currently talking about, past stages, and a way to start a conversation about your event.

Length 45–60 min keynote · 90 min with Q&A Format In-person preferred · remote on request Fees On request, scaled to org size Travel Billed at cost for in-person events

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Speaker reel · v0

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Clip queue 2 talks given · clips pending

ActionKit ClientCon 2026 MiddleSeat lunch-and-learn 2026

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Speaker topics

Four talks I'm giving in 2026.

Each is shaped for an operations or programs audience: directors, managers, and their EDs/CEOs. None require an AI background; all assume the audience has tried AI and been underwhelmed.

T 01 Most-requested · 2026

Most of the work is workflow design and adoption — not the model.

The thesis talk. Why eighty percent of the AI projects that ship inside mission-driven organizations fail at the workflow layer, not the model layer, and what an operations leader can do about it on Monday morning. Three case studies, one walk-through.

For Ops & programs leaders, mixed audiences

Length 45 / 60 / 90 min

T 02 New · 2026

The AI-fit map: what to automate, what to augment, what to leave alone.

A three-axis framework for triaging which workflows are worth the AI investment and which aren't. Includes the audit worksheet I use with clients on day one. Pragmatic, opinionated, anti-hype.

For Directors, COOs, board strategy committees

Length 45 / 60 min

T 03 Standing

Boards and AI: the questions you should be asking, and the ones you shouldn't.

For board retreats and governance committees. Frames AI as a governance risk and a strategic question, not a tooling question. Includes a read-aloud sample policy and a one-page board briefing.

For Boards, EDs, governance committees

Length 45 min · workshop format available

T 04 Standing

Forty AI projects later: what worked, what didn't, what I'd never do again.

The retrospective talk. Six projects shipped, six that quietly died, and four that I should have killed sooner. Honest about cost, honest about the projects that didn't earn their staff time. Best as a closer.

For Practitioner audiences, conference closers

Length 60 / 90 min

Past stages 2 real

ActionKit ClientCon 2026 MiddleSeat lunch-and-learn 2026

Speaker bio

Jordan Krueger has spent twenty years inside mission-driven operations, with AI work added more recently for the same kinds of organizations.

He runs Grounded AI, a workshop-and-advisory practice for 50–500-staff associations and service nonprofits. His talks are pragmatic, opinionated, and free of generative-AI sales pitch; the audience leaves with a workflow plan, not a tooling reading list.

Before Grounded AI, Jordan was Director of Operations at CREDO Action, where he led an 8-year operations practice for one of the largest progressive advocacy programs in the country. Since 2021 he has run CampaignHelp, a sister consulting practice serving progressive nonprofits, where the AI work first started. He lives in Mt Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Speaker one-sheet (PDF) ↓

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Fifteen-minute call. I'll ask about the audience, the room, what else is on the agenda, and why now. If it's a fit, we go from there. If not, I'll point you at someone who is.

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Speaker one-sheet

Bio, headshot, four topic abstracts, AV requirements, and past stages — one printable page. Updated quarterly.

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