Dec 15–17 · NYCLeading What's Next: an AI Strategy Retreat for JCC professional leadership.See the details
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Speaking & retreats

Live, on the main stage.

Keynotes, intensives, and leadership retreats for conferences and convenings that want an honest, practical conversation about AI, led by someone who has done the work inside a community organization.

Amanda speaking on stage about human connection and AI-supported work

More Human, Not Less

on stage and on screen with

JCC Association MifgashJCC PROCONCommunity Rec Leadership SummitCommunity Rec MagazineJamf NationTractionRec

Possible topics

Big questions. Useful on Monday.

A few starting points for your next keynote, leadership retreat, or staff learning day. We’ll shape the topic, examples, and format around the people in the room.

People, purpose & community

More Human, Not Less

Explore where AI can support your mission while keeping human connection at the center, from a welcome at the front desk to a conversation with a donor.

Leadership & change

Leading Your Team Through AI

How leaders can set direction, make thoughtful tool decisions, and bring staff into the conversation, including the people who are curious, skeptical, or overwhelmed.

Policy & responsible use

AI Is in Your Workplace. Is Your Policy Ready?

Work through the decisions behind useful AI guidance: approved tools, information, permissions, human review, and who is responsible when the tool gets something wrong.

Member & community experience

The Next Front Door

Consider what AI-assisted search, service, and communication could mean for how people find your organization and connect with it, and where a person needs to stay involved.

Practical learning & adoption

From Experimenting to Everyday Use

Connect AI learning to the grant cycle, the program launch, and the work already on your team’s desks, with examples of what comes back and how people review it.

Skills, workflows & agents

What Should We Hand Off to AI?

Explore reusable Skills, shared knowledge, and tools that can take action, with a practical conversation about what to delegate, what needs approval, and what stays with your people.

Coming up: JCCs only

Admit one leadership team

Leading What's Next

An AI Strategy Retreat for JCC Professional Leadership

Three days on how AI can help your JCC make better decisions, expand capacity, and advance its mission, and on what needs to be in place to use it responsibly.

December 15–17, 2026

JCC Association's Mercaz
New York City

The tour so far

Recent stages and screens.

Oct 2026

More Human, Not Less, plenary at JCC ProCon 2026: Kehillah 2.0

Michael-Ann Russell JCC, North Miami Beach

Aug 2026

The Next Front Door: Preparing for the Rise of Member-Facing AI

TractionRec webinar

Jul 2026

Human-Centered AI Implementation

Jamf Nation webinar

Jul 2026

AI Is in Your Workplace. Is Your Policy Ready?

AI for Executives webinar

Mar 2026

Navigating AI Solutions for Community Rec

Community Rec Magazine panel

Feb 2026

The AI-Enabled Executive

JCC Association Mifgash, Atlanta

Oct 2025

AI Intensive for JCC Professionals

PROCON 2025, Minneapolis

Mar 2025

Technology and AI Trends

Community Rec Leadership Summit, Tucson

Booking

Four ways to bring me in.

Keynote

A plenary that sets the tone and gives the whole room a shared language.

Workshop or intensive

Hands-on practice where attendees use AI on their own work before they leave.

Panel or webinar

A candid practitioner's voice for your online audience or your stage.

Leadership retreat

Multi-day working time for the decisions that deserve more than an hour.

got a stage?

Raise the curtain.

Tell me about your audience and what you want them to walk away with, and I will suggest a session that fits.

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