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Speaking

Most organisations do not have a knowledge problem.
They have a judgment problem.

When I speak, I am addressing that gap, not adding information, but challenging how decisions are being made.

The Starting Point

The audience is rarely starting from zero.
The issue is translation, not awareness.

They already understand AI, transformation, and strategy at a conceptual level.

The issue is that those concepts are not translating into decisions, operating discipline, or economic outcomes. That is where the conversation becomes useful.

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Kwafo Ofori-Boateng speaking at conference

The themes are consistent. The context is not.

Why AI is scaling activity, but not value

Why transformation often increases complexity instead of reducing it

Why operating models fail under pressure

Why decision rights matter more than strategy documents

What Happens in the Room

It is not a presentation.
It is a reframing.

I am not there to walk through slides.

I am there to make something visible that was not fully visible before, usually the gap between what the organisation believes is happening, and what is happening.

That tends to change the conversation quickly.

What Changes After

The outcome is not information.
It is clarity.

People leave with a clearer view of where effort is being wasted, where structure is missing, and where decisions are being avoided.

And, more importantly, what needs to change.

Executive Education

In the room with
the people making the decisions.

Guest speaker at Ivey Business School and other leading executive education programmes. Bringing real-world complexity into the room without stripping out the nuance that makes it useful.

Kwafo Ofori-Boateng at Ivey Business School
Format

Format depends on the context.

Board sessions, executive offsites, leadership forums.

The structure matters less than the quality of the discussion it creates.

Available for engagements across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and internationally. US and Australian citizen, based in Charlotte (US) and Melbourne (Australia). I take speaking engagements selectively, where the audience and context align with the work I do.

Make an Enquiry

For speaking enquiries, send a brief note about the event, audience, and date.

email@kwafo.com Contact Form

If you want a session that challenges how the organisation is thinking,
not just what it knows, we should talk.