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AI KEYNOTES & WORKSHOPS · GETTING YOUR CREW BACK ON THE WORK THAT MATTERS

Your best people lose most of the week to work they were never hired to do.

That's not a people problem - it's Admin Drag, and bolting AI onto broken work just makes the mess faster. I help teams redesign the work first, then build a Digital Crew of AI agents that takes the busywork - so your people get back to clients, relationships, and the work only they can do. Call it sales, service, or just the job - the drag is the same. Practitioner, not futurist; your team leaves ready to use it Monday.

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MIKE ALLTON · ON STAGE STATUS: LIVE · LOG 06-2026
Packed room at a Mike Allton AI keynote, WSU Tech Wichita
WSU TECH · WICHITA, KS · 2025

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SECTION 01 · THE PROBLEM

Name the villain:
Admin Drag.

Your best, most expensive people are trapped in the quicksand of low-value work - data entry, research, status updates, the busywork that breeds faster than anyone can clear it. It isn't a discipline problem, and it isn't a people problem. It's the system.

Pilot Purgatory

95% of AI pilots stall - not because the tech fails, but because teams bolt AI onto broken workflows and call it a strategy.

Toggle Tax

Your people lose hours a day swivel-chairing between tools, tabs, and inboxes - context-switching that quietly bleeds the day.

Shadow AI

To survive, your best people reach for unsanctioned tools. You didn't approve them, can't govern them, and don't know what data is walking out the door.

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SECTION 02 · THE TURN

Redesign the
work first.

You don't need another chatbot demo. You need a system. Fix the workflow, then give it a crew - that's the whole wedge.

THE OLD WAY

Add AI to broken work

Same tangled process, now running faster. The mess compounds, the pilot stalls, and trust in AI erodes across the team.

THE AI HAT WAY

Redesign, then deploy

Map the real workflow, cut the drag, then hand the rebuilt process to a Digital Crew. The time comes back - and it stays back.

Past vs Present: an overwhelmed worker buried in paperwork, beside the same worker calm at a mission-control console with a Digital Crew of agents
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SECTION 03 · THE DIGITAL CREW - THE CORE IDEA

Don't hire a smarter intern.
Hire a whole crew.

Most companies use AI as a really smart intern who answers questions. We help you hire a crew - crew members who work 24/7, never burn out, and handle the 70% that's burying your people. It's the system I built at Agorapulse, and I'll teach your team to build their own.

Scout, Scribe, and Coach are examples of what a crew can include. We design yours around the actual work your team is drowning in.

SCOUT

The Scout

RESEARCH & OUTREACH

Finds the opportunity and does the first pass: researching the prospect or account, pulling the background, drafting the outreach. Buyer, client, or renewal, your people stop digging and start talking to the right person.

SCRIBE

The Scribe

ADMIN & RECORDS

Handles the record-keeping that eats the day: updating the system, summarizing the call or meeting, scheduling the follow-up. Your people stop losing two-plus hours a day to data entry, and the record stays clean on its own.

COACH

The Coach

QUALITY & GUIDANCE

Checks the work in real time: flags what is missing, holds the standard, suggests the next best step. Managers stop re-checking everything by hand and get back to the work that actually needs a human.

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SECTION 04 · SIGNATURE TALKS

The booking menu.

Bring it to a stage, a workshop, or your whole team - every format ends with people ready to use it Monday, not just inspired.

FORMAT 0145–60 MIN

The Flagship Keynote

Names the Admin Drag, reframes AI around the Digital Crew, and sends the room out energized and clear-eyed.

BEST FOR · CONFERENCES · SUMMITS

FORMAT 02HALF / FULL DAY WORKSHOP

Hire Your First Crew Member

A working session where everyone leaves having hired their first crew member and a 90-day plan they actually own.

BEST FOR · TEAMS READY TO ACT

FORMAT 0360–90 MIN

The Industry Session

The keynote tuned to one room. For insurance, that is Medicare and senior-market advisors, agencies, and producers, in their language, with their version of the drag.

BEST FOR · INSURANCE & ASSOCIATION EVENTS

FORMAT 041–2 DAYS

The Sales Kickoff

A keynote that anchors your SKO plus hands-on sessions that send every rep home with a Digital Crew starter kit.

BEST FOR · REVENUE ORGS AT KICKOFF

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SECTION 05 · WHAT TEAMS LEAVE WITH

They leave having
made the hire - live.

No slideware to file away. Every engagement ends with something real in your team's hands.

A first crew member - hired in the room, running on your real workflow.

A governance framework that protects innovation instead of banning it.

A 90-day roadmap for scaling the crew past the first hire.

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Mike Allton, The Patient Architect, on stage
MIKE ALLTON · THE PATIENT ARCHITECT

SECTION 06 · MEET MIKE

An architect,
not a futurist.

I'm Mike Allton, and I've been in the arena for two decades. I'm not predicting 2030 - I carry a number as Director of Partner-Led Growth at Agorapulse, facing the same targets, the same churn risk, the same “do more with less” you are. I build these systems on my own work before I ever teach them.

As host of The AI Hat Podcast - 100+ episodes with AI leaders from Google, NVIDIA, and LinkedIn - I've spent the last year translating bleeding-edge tech into workflows that actually hold up in the real world.

NO SCI-FI · JUST SYSTEMS NO FLUFF · JUST WORKFLOWS NO RISK · JUST GOVERNANCE

PROOF

What leaders
say.

CASE · WESTERN ASSET PROTECTION · AGENCY LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

“What impressed us most was his ability to build confidence without ignoring risk. Mike helped our 100+ agency leaders understand how to use AI responsibly, with practical guardrails, real-world applications, and a clear understanding of where AI fits within a compliant business.”

Paul Rose

Paul Rose

MANAGING PARTNER · WESTERN ASSET PROTECTION

CASE · MODERN LITHO · NATIONAL SALES MEETING

“AI is a topic everyone is talking about, but Mike made it real for our team. He connected the dots between technology and day-to-day execution, and gave our team the confidence to start using these tools today.”

Mark Gerling

Mark Gerling

VP OF SALES · MODERN LITHO PRINT CO

CASE · TEAM AI TRAINING · NON-SALES

“Our staff came in with a wide range of AI experience and varying levels of concern, and Mike met everyone exactly where they were. We walked away with practical insights, clear next steps, and a great time learning together.”

Amy Weinbaum

Amy Weinbaum, MPA

TEAM AI TRAINING CLIENT

90 SEC · ON STAGE

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BEYOND THE KEYNOTE · THE DEEPER LANE

Build the Digital
Crew with us.

The keynote starts it; the consulting engagement ships it. We map your workflows, hire your highest-impact crew members, and govern the rollout across every team that touches the customer - sales, service, marketing, and ops.

01

Illuminate the Shadow

Map the unsanctioned tools, sort brilliant workarounds from real risks, and stand up a governance framework that doesn't kill innovation.

02

Hire Your First Crew Member

Pick the pain point, make the first hire live, and prove the ROI on one real workflow before scaling anything.

03

Scale the Crew

Architect the full Digital Crew across the org - a governed, scalable AI workforce that turns Admin Drag into advantage.

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DIAGNOSE · FREE

Not sure you're ready? Start here.

Before any engagement, find out what your team is already running. Roughly 90% of employees use AI tools their company never approved. The Shadow AI Governance Launchpad is a free seven-piece field kit to illuminate the risk and launch your governance program in 48 hours.

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INSIDE THE KIT

01

The Amnesty Email Script - declares a 30-day Safe Harbor window so the team discloses what they use.

02

The Traffic Light Data Cheatsheet - the green / yellow / red rule set your people will actually remember.

03

The AI Use Policy Template - ten sections of ready-to-ratify language, written in the tone Legal expects.

INSIGHTS

Fresh from the log.

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Book the room.

Keynote, workshop, or team session - let's get your people back on the work that matters. Tell me your date and I'll tell you if it's open.

BEFORE YOU ASK

Who is this for?

Any team whose best people are buried in busywork - revenue teams, agencies, advisors and producers, operators, founders. If your people spend more time feeding the machine than doing the work, this is for you.

What formats do you offer?

Keynotes (45–60 min), half- and full-day workshops, and multi-day team or sales kickoffs. Each can anchor a larger consulting engagement.

Virtual or in-person?

Both. The live workshop format is built to work on a stage or over video, with the same hands-on build either way.

What's the investment?

It scales with format and audience size. Share your event and budget range and I'll tell you what fits.

How far out should we book?

Popular dates go 2–4 months ahead, but reach out anytime - last-minute slots do open up.