Speaking & Workshops · Dr. Ryan Baltrip / Navigate AI
Speaking & Workshops

Research rigor.
Operator reality.

Dr. Baltrip doesn't lecture about ethics in the abstract. He helps leadership teams build the structures that make AI governance operational: constraints, transparency, accountability, and stop-the-line authority your team will actually use.

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The Offer

Three engagements. One goal.

Each engagement level builds toward the same outcome: governance leaders can actually run — not just discuss.

01
Bronze
Keynote
The Verification Economy
A high-impact opening or closing keynote that reframes AI governance as competitive advantage, not compliance cost. Attendees leave with a new vocabulary for trust, a clear model for the three failure modes, and a specific Monday-morning action.
  • The Efficiency Trap, Proxy Trap, and Paperclip Maximizer
  • The GOLDEN Framework · six disciplines in 45 minutes
  • Glass Box, Andon Cord, and Ethical Moat in plain language
  • Q&A and audience interaction
Best for conferences and executive audiences who need a new vocabulary and a clear mental model.
45–60 min
Virtual or on-site
02
Silver
Workshop
Governing AI in Your Organization
An executive workshop that applies the GOLDEN Framework directly to your team's AI use cases. Participants score real initiatives, surface proxy metrics and failure modes, and leave with an accountability map they can implement the following week.
  • Live use case audit using the Golden Algorithm Scorecard
  • Proxy Trap identification exercise
  • Glass Box documentation for top-priority systems
  • Andon Cord design: triggers, authorities, protocols
  • Team accountability matrix
Best for leadership teams ready to apply the tools to one high-priority AI use case.
2–3 hours
On-site recommended
03
Gold
Implementation Sprint
From Framework to Governance
A facilitated two-to-four week engagement where your leadership team builds a real AI Constitution, completes a scored use case audit, and installs stop-the-line authority. This isn't a workshop. It's implementation.
  • Full use case audit (Scorecard for every active AI system)
  • AI Constitution drafting and review
  • Glass Box documentation protocol
  • Andon Cord installation with defined triggers
  • Rollout rhythm and review cadence
  • Executive brief for board presentation
Best for organizations ready to install formal structures, define owners, and leave with implementation artifacts.
2–4 weeks
Hybrid engagement
Signature Topics

What Dr. Baltrip talks about

The Verification Economy
Why trust has shifted from "claimed" to "proven" and how the organizations that win in this era will be the ones who can show their work.
The Efficiency Trap
How organizations upgrade the AI engine and forget the steering wheel and the pattern of trust failures that always follows.
The Proxy Trap
When the metric becomes the goal and AI optimizes the proxy while quietly destroying the underlying value you were trying to build.
Black Box → Glass Box
"Trust the math" is no longer viable. What observable, documentable, and explainable looks like in practice and how to get there.
The Andon Cord
Why every AI system needs stop-the-line authority: a real human with real power to halt automation before damage scales.
The Ethical Moat
How governance constraints become durable competitive advantage. The organizations that earn trust will be the ones hardest to displace.
The Bridge

Not too technical. Not too abstract. Not another compliance lecture.

Most AI ethics content falls into one of three traps: too technical (developers only), too moralistic (preachy and disconnected from P&L), or too legalistic (focused on avoiding fines instead of building advantage).

Dr. Baltrip brings a rare combination: academic research rigor from the Loyalty Science Lab, and operator reality from working directly with organizations that are deploying AI systems right now. The result is content that's practically actionable on Monday morning, not aspirationally inspiring on Friday afternoon.

"Ethics is not the brake. It is the steering wheel."

Research Foundation
Loyalty Science Lab
Old Dominion University · Marketing Professor & Executive Director
Framework
G.O.L.D.E.N.
Six governance pillars that translate the Golden Rule into operating reality
Audience
Leaders, Not Developers
Executives, boards, product teams, marketing. People who own the Monday-morning decision
Outcome
Governance That Runs
Not a PDF on a shelf. A real operating rhythm with accountability and tools.
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