CXO Dispatch
Close the Gap.
Lead the Shift.
AI is improving exponentially. Most organizations are adopting linearly. Every month you wait, the gap widens. I help executives and their teams build the fluency, trust, and adoption plans to close it — with confidence, not panic.
Coming August 2026: Untapped, the Essential Innovations podcast, and a new YouTube channel on trust in AI for high-stakes decisions.
15,000+ Trained
People educated on AI
Chief of AI & Strategy
Essential Innovations
Transylvania University
Member, Board of Trustees
Founder, Attainable
AI solutions across sectors
Fortune 50 Executive
AI strategy at scale
Clients & Teaching
Motivo Health
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Acme Fresh Markets
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Elevance Health
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Chautauqua Institution
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Lean Startup Co.
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University of Louisville
Memberships & Affiliations
Techstars
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Perplexity AI
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University of San Francisco
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Transylvania University
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Center for AI Testing & Evidence
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Kentucky YMCA
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What I Do
I help leadership teams who know AI matters but aren't sure where to start — building the fluency, trust, and adoption plans that close the gap between potential and outcomes.
Keynotes That Shift Thinking
Talks that translate AI from abstract anxiety into clear-eyed strategy — designed for leadership teams who need to leave the room aligned, energized, and ready to act.
View Speaking Topics →Workshops That Build Adoption Plans
Hands-on sessions where leadership teams identify where AI creates real value, build shared fluency, and leave with a concrete adoption plan — not a deck.
Explore Workshops →Workforce Transition Strategy
Strategic facilitation for organizations navigating large-scale workforce change — building the trust, capability, and narrative that move people and technology forward together.
Learn More →Signature Speaking Topics
Practical talks that answer the questions executives are actually asking. Customized to your audience and goals. 45-60 minutes + Q&A.
Closing the Exponential Gap: Why Linear AI Adoption Will Leave You Behind
Boards, executive offsites, leadership all-handsWhere to Start with AI (And What to Skip)
Leadership conferences, transformation summitsFinding Your AI Champions: They're Not Who You Think
HR conferences, L&D summits, talent leadership eventsBuilding an AI Adoption Plan That Actually Sticks
Corporate all-hands, change management conferencesWhat 15,000 People Taught Me About How AI Actually Spreads
Education conferences, innovation summits, executive forumsWorkshops & Adoption Programs
Speaking opens minds. Workshops change behavior. This is where the real work happens.
Leadership AI Fluency Workshop
Half-day or full-day. For executive teams and senior leaders.Build shared language, align on what AI can and can't do, identify high-leverage starting points, and leave with an adoption plan you'll actually execute.
AI Adoption Plan Intensive
Multi-session engagement. For organizations ready to move from awareness to action.A structured process to map where AI creates value in your operations, build the trust and capability to use it well, and design the rollout that closes your exponential gap.
Workforce Transition Strategy
Project-based engagement. For organizations facing large-scale workforce change.Design and facilitate the conversations, capability-building, and change architecture required to move people and technology forward together — not in opposition.
Ready to Close Your Gap?
Whether it's a keynote that shifts thinking or a workshop that builds an adoption plan — the next step is a short conversation.
The Exponential Gap
AI capability is growing exponentially. Organizational adoption is growing linearly. The space between those two curves is where competitive advantage — or competitive collapse — gets decided.
Why Linear Adoption Won't Cut It
For most of our careers, we could look at people 5-10 years ahead and see a path to follow. AI is changing work so quickly that the past is no longer a reliable map. Organizations that adopt incrementally — one tool at a time, one team at a time — fall further behind every quarter. Closing the gap requires small, consistent changes in how people work with AI that compound into breakthrough capability.
Adoption Before Implementation
Most AI initiatives fail not because the technology doesn't work, but because organizations skip straight to building. Before you implement, you need an adoption plan: shared fluency, real trust, a clear-eyed view of where AI creates value, and frameworks people can actually use. Implementation without adoption is expensive cleanup. Adoption first is how you compound.
Building Trust in Human-AI Collaboration
This isn't about tools. It's about responsible cognitive offloading — deciding what you hand off to AI, what you never outsource, and what you co-create. It's about knowing when not to use AI, protecting spaces for deep thinking and real human connection. Trust is the hidden variable in every AI initiative. Build it, and adoption follows. Skip it, and even the best technology stalls.
Chris Huber Reitz
Stay Human at the Speed of Change.
I've trained 15,000+ people on AI. I taught AI Strategy at Columbia University. I serve on the Board of Trustees of Transylvania University. I've deployed AI strategy at Fortune 50 scale. Now I help leaders build trust in human-AI collaboration — and lead through the exponential shift.
Beyond the credentials, my work is grounded in a specific posture: scholar-practitioner. A decade of teaching at Columbia keeps me anchored in research and frameworks that hold up to scrutiny. Years as a Fortune 50 AI executive taught me how AI actually gets deployed — and why it often doesn't. And through my company, Attainable, I build AI solutions for the emerging needs of organizations across sectors.
At the heart of all of it is a powerful throughline: shaping belief through narrative-powered transformation. I connect people to powerful ideas through storytelling and facilitation, bringing complex systems to life with clarity, empathy, and enthusiasm. Technical transformation fails without narrative. Adoption follows belief.
My Approach
Academic Rigor
A decade of teaching at Columbia University means I ground everything in research, evidence, and frameworks that hold up to scrutiny. But I translate that rigor into language that lands with practitioners, not just scholars.
Corporate Execution
Years as a Fortune 50 AI executive taught me how AI actually gets deployed — and why it often doesn't. I've lived the politics, the resource constraints, and the moments where strategy meets reality.
Entrepreneurial Action
Through Attainable, I build solutions for real problems. That startup DNA keeps me focused on what works, not just what sounds good in a presentation.
Experience & Credentials
Role & Practice
Essential Innovations
Chief of AI & Strategy
Founder, Attainable
AI solutions for emerging needs across sectors
Fortune 50 AI Executive
Deployed AI strategy and products at enterprise scale
Teaching & Reach
15,000+ People Trained
AI education across industries and roles
Columbia University
IKNS alum; former Lecturer, AI Strategy
Chautauqua Institution
Affiliated educator and speaker
Memberships & Recognition
Techstars
Workforce Development Cohort alum
Transylvania University
Member, Board of Trustees
Center for AI Testing & Evidence
Board Member; host, Thinking AI Thursdays
Advisory
Your engagement helped reinforce the importance of grounding speculative and forward-looking analysis in real institutional and market dynamics, which ultimately strengthened the quality and discipline of the final work.
Teaching & Training
Excellent course! 5-stars across the board. Thank you for all the thought put into making this an awesome experience.
From the Field
“The real differentiator will not be model performance. It will be institutional design.” Chris Huber Reitz · on trust as organizational infrastructure
Also: panelist at the Columbia SPS Faculty Summit on AI Teaching + Learning →
Get in Touch
Whether you're interested in booking a speaking engagement, exploring advisory work, or just have a question — I'd like to hear from you.
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