Jerry W. Washington in coffee shop portrait
Jerry W. Washington, Ed.D.
Speaking & Workshops

Keynotes, roundtables, and facilitated sessions on institutional accountability under language pressure.

Practical frameworks grounded in eight-discipline research, not speculative futurism. Every talk includes take-home resource pages with slides, prompt sets, and reading lists.

Three current talks

What is on offer right now.

Each talk is customized to the audience in a pre-call. What is fixed is the frame; what is written to you is the case work.

Bridging Worldviews: How Your AI Philosophy Shapes Your PD

Keynote · 60 minutes · K–12 leaders and education organizations
A five-lens framework for designing AI professional development during teacher-facing rollouts. Names how the same policy reads differently under positivism, constructivism, critical, anti-colonial, and pragmatism. Ends with a self-diagnosis tool for the audience to run inside their own district.

Meaning Repair: Why Teams Drift Apart Under AI Pressure

Keynote · 60 minutes · Workforce and organizational audiences
How shared meaning erodes when tools outpace organizational language. Grounded in an eight-discipline scoping review. Names the four-phase pattern every team runs through and what leaders can install to catch drift before it costs.

The Readiness Audit: Three Hours, Three Decisions

Workshop · 3 hours · Senior leaders
A working session, not a lecture. Every attendee leaves with a written readiness profile, three named priorities, and one repair protocol to install on Monday. Best for cabinets, boards, and executive teams at a shared decision point.
Recent engagements

Where these talks have run.

Spark AI Lab Virtual Teaching Practice Roundtable

April 30, 2026 · Virtual roundtable
A working session on how community-college and K–12 instructors are teaching AI-adjacent skills without waiting for the vendor to arrive.

University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education

2025 · Research Ethics Colloquium
Presented the Technological Stewardship paper (co-authored with Tony Washington) on the stewardship duties a technical practice owes to the people it affects.

University of South Florida Interdisciplinary Symposium

March 31, 2023 · Qualitative Methodologies
A methods talk on how a scoping review across eight disciplines gets scoped, screened, and synthesized without losing signal.
Formats

Three formats, three audiences, one frame.

Keynote

45–60 minutes plus Q&A
Best for conferences, all-hands, and cabinet-level convenings. One frame, three cases, one repair move for the audience to take with them.

Facilitated roundtable

60–90 minutes
Best for boards, executive teams, and reading groups. Structured discussion around a case you name in advance. Ends with a written summary of what the group decided.

Workshop

Half-day, full-day, or 10-week pilot
Best for senior leadership teams and cross-department cohorts. Scenario-based, framework-forward, and installs one working protocol before the session ends.
What to know before you book

Four things every speaking engagement carries.

1. Booked 60–120 days out

Every talk is customized in a pre-call. That takes lead time. For a keynote or workshop that is worth its slot, expect a 60- to 120-day booking window from first email to date.

2. Honorarium range

Discussed in the inquiry call. Range depends on format, travel, and organization type. Nonprofit, education, and public-sector rates are set separately from corporate.

3. Take-home resources

Every talk includes a resource page with slides, prompt sets, reading lists, and a WTB-branded follow-up email for the audience to subscribe.

4. Written debrief

After the engagement I send a short written debrief: what the audience asked, what surprised me, and what the host organization might do next. Yours to circulate.
Inquire about a booking

Bring one of these talks to your audience.

Email with your audience, date range, and a sentence about what your organization is trying to decide. I reply within two business days.