Expert on AI Ethics and the Future of Work & Author of "The Science of Organizational Change"

Denver, CO, USA

Paul Gibbons Biography

Paul Gibbons works at the intersection of human intelligence, machine intelligence, and the future of institutions. Ranked Top 52 globally in AI and Top 5 in Culture Change, he helps boards and C-suite leaders build the cognitive infrastructure needed for the next decade.

Gibbons is the author of eight books on leadership, change, ethics, and technology, including "The Science of Organizational Change" — ranked among the top change management texts of all time — and "Adopting AI: The People-First Approach" (2025), rated "best book on AI in 2025." He is the creator of Adaptive Adoption, a seven-pillar framework for AI adoption grounded in behavioral science, and the Adaptive Adoption Maturity Index (AAMI).

For over three decades, Gibbons has advised the world's leading firms — including Shell, Microsoft, Google, HSBC, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, IBM, Amex, Barclays, and the London School of Economics — on their most complex human challenges: culture, ethics, technological disruption, and the future of work. Previously, he was a Partner at IBM Consulting and a Senior Academic Advisor to Deloitte.

His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Guardian, and HR Magazine. He is the mind behind Think Bigger Think Better, a long-form project — books, Substack, and podcast — dedicated to helping leaders separate signal from noise in a world where AI is rewriting power and truth.

Gibbons's career spans quantitative finance, consulting, and academia, with advanced studies in molecular biology, economics, organizational behavior, and philosophy. European by upbringing, he now lives in Colorado.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 03/02/2026.

Paul Gibbons Speaking Topics

  • The Ethics of AI: What Citizens and Business Leaders Need to Know

    AI will touch every corner of our lives as citizens, consumers, and business people. In this 60- to 90-minute keynote, Paul covers Artificial General Intelligence

    • and whether that creates an existential risk. Then closer to today, he covers the effect on jobs, on biases and fairness, on privacy and property rights, on accountability and malfeasance, and on human development.

  • Leadership of AI: Driving Growth while Managing Risks

    Some CEOs call our moment the opportunity of a lifetime, but deciding which AI strategies to pursue is fraught with risk. This 60- to 90- minute keynote covers a) why technology deployments often fail, b) the AI maturity model, c) how to create a vision, d) how to create an AI centered people strategy, e) what an AI deployment and governance team should look like, f) the ethics of AI, and g) getting an AI culture to work. Paul has 35 years helping businesses deploy technology, at PwC and at IBM and is the author of six book on change leadership.

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Paul Gibbons Videos

The $2 Trillion Build-Out: Why Most Companies Get It Wrong

The $2 Trillion Build-Out: Why Most Companies Get It Wrong

It's not a tech problem; it's an Adoption Gap driving a $2T investment into a wall of human habit. Here is the behavioral architecture required to...

Paul Gibbons - Adopting AI: The People-first Approach

Paul Gibbons - Adopting AI: The People-first Approach

Hype or humdrum? Dystopia or utopia? "Adopting AI" (2025) answers those questions and more.

AI leadership teaser trailer powering growth managing risks

AI leadership teaser trailer powering growth managing risks

Harnessing AI's power for business advantage is going to take more than buying shiny tech: the human side must lead, not technology if AI is to...

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Paul Gibbons is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Ethics of AI: What Citizens and Business Leaders Need to Know, Leadership of AI: Driving Growth while Managing Risks, Getting Past the BS and Myths of Change Management, The Human Side of GenAI and the Future of Work, New Frontiers in Leading Change: Mental Health and Resilience and Why Culture Change Fails, (and What Leaders Can Do to Make It Happen). The estimated speaking fee range to book Paul Gibbons for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Paul Gibbons generally travels from Denver, CO, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Zack Kass, Eric Boles, Daymond John, Jelly Roll and Rocky Bleier. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Paul Gibbons for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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