Expert on AI Ethics and the Future of Work & Author of "The Science of Organizational Change"
Paul Gibbons Biography
Paul Gibbons has a global reputation as a futurist and scholar on the human side of technology. According to reviewers his 2025 book, "Adopting AI", "artfully blends the optimism of Kurzweil with the caution of Bostrom with the pragmatism of Mollick." The first section of Adopting AI reviews both the enormous potential for humanity, the second focuses on workforce and culture challenges pointing out the flaws in typical approaches to technology adoption. The third and final section is the go to on the practice of AI ethics and governance. He has been called a 21st-century Peter Drucker and is ranked alongside Adam Grant and Amy Edmonson as one of today’s leading thinkers.
His other five books include: "Spirituality of Work and Leadership" shows how leaders can lead with the deepest human values to create workplaces with meaning and purpose at their heart; his bestseller, "The Science of Organizational Change", is ranked top five on leading change. His most sought-after speaking topics include Generative AI, Remote Working, Innovation, Mental Health, and Behavioral Science.
Gibbons recently left IBM, where he worked on the human capital challenges of exponential technologies: AI, blockchain, cloud computing, and digital transformation. At PwC, he was a thought leader in innovation, culture change, and corporate transformation.
He has been an adjunct professor of leadership at major business schools and has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Human Capital Magazine. In 2015, he appeared in Microsoft’s Distinguished Author Program and Talks at Google. CEO magazine recognized Gibbons as one of two CEO "super-coaches" and his coaching firm as the best of the leadership consulting boutiques.
He lives in Colorado with his two boys and plays competitive chess, bridge, and poker, competing in the World Series of Poker every summer.
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Paul Gibbons Speaking Topics
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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.
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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.
Paul Gibbons Videos
Paul Gibbons - Adopting AI: The People-first Approach
Hype or humdrum? Dystopia or utopia? "Adopting AI" (2025) answers those questions and more.
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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 Greg Verdino, Tia White, René Carayol, Tim Sanders and Amy Cappellanti-Wolf. 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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