FROM INTELLIGENCE TO IMPACT
Jennifer delivers dynamic keynotes shaped by lived experience at the intersection of intelligence, technology, and leadership. Drawing on decades spent operating in the shadow world of global intelligence and leading digital transformation at the CIA, her talks confront a defining challenge of our time: how leaders make sound decisions, preserve trust, and retain human agency in an era of AI-driven influence and invisible conflict.
Her speeches move beyond headlines and hype. They illuminate how emerging technologies are already reshaping power, perception, and truth, and what leaders must do to respond with clarity, resilience, and purpose.
WHY ORGANIZATIONS CHOOSE JENNIFER
For executive and board audiences: Your team is making decisions about AI, data governance, and digital risk faster than most boardrooms can track the threats. Jennifer spent 4.5 years as the CIA's senior leader for digital transformation and AI policy. She provides frameworks your leadership can apply immediately to evaluate AI risk, algorithmic influence, and adversarial manipulation. See Jennifer's current board roles.
For conference and association programmers: You need a speaker who anchors your program, not fills a slot. Her talks are narrative-driven, grounded in operational experience, and consistently receive enthusiastic feedback from audiences ranging from 200-person executive retreats to 3,000-person industry conferences.
For government and defense audiences: Jennifer spent three decades in intelligence operations, including leading the CIA's pivot to compete with China in the technology domain. When she talks about adversarial AI, cognitive operations, or the technology cold war, she draws on firsthand experience.
For technology and cybersecurity audiences: Most cybersecurity speakers focus on technical defense. Jennifer approaches the problem from the adversary's perspective, using intelligence tradecraft to show how nation-states exploit the gap between technology capability and human judgment. She applies classic espionage motivation frameworks to AI-enabled manipulation, giving technical audiences a strategic layer that complements the tactical knowledge they already have.
YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH:
A clearer understanding of how AI influence, deepfakes, and information manipulation are already shaping decisions, trust, and risk in organizations, markets, and democratic societies.
A practical framework for protecting human judgment and cognitive agency in environments driven by algorithms, speed, and uncertainty, which is essential for strategic leadership.
Insight into how intelligence professionals evaluate emerging threats, and how adopting this mindset can bolster leadership, strategy, and resilience.
A more grounded perspective on cyber and digital risk, reframed as leadership challenges rather than merely technical problems.
Confidence to lead through ambiguity, informed by real lessons from moments when the stakes were high, the information was incomplete, and the consequences were significant.
SAMPLE SPEECHES AND PANELS
Coming Soon: TEDxUF
Outpacing the Adversary
Jennifer delivered her TEDx talk, "Winning the Secret War for Your Mind," in April 2026. The talk draws on three decades in intelligence to examine how foreign adversaries and the commercial attention economy are together eroding cognitive autonomy, and what individuals can do about it. The video will be available here when it is released on YouTube.
Outpacing the Adversary
Outpacing the Adversary
This speech explores how speed, purpose, and partnership shape real advantage in an era defined by rapid technological change. Drawing on lessons from intelligence and national security, it shows why time-to-field now matters as much as the technology itself, and how mission-focused urgency can guide innovation. It offers a clear call for collaboration across government, industry, and allies to stay ahead of determined adversaries.
(OODAcon, October 2025)
Is This Our Digital Sputnik Moment?
Is This Our Digital Sputnik Moment?
In this keynote at GEOINT on America’s “Digital Sputnik moment,” Jennifer explains how cyber, AI, GEOINT, and open-source data are transforming both the threat landscape and the business of intelligence. She offers a candid inside look at CIA’s digital transformation—from cloud and data strategy to AI-enabled analysis and industry partnerships—while emphasizing that machines are there to augment, not replace, human judgment. Jennifer challenges audiences with a simple but urgent choice for national security and industry alike: innovate with purpose and speed, or risk being outpaced by determined adversaries who are already weaponizing the digital revolution.