Speaking topics · Keynotes · Sessions
Each topic comes from work actually done: building with what was on hand, deciding before the picture was clear, and leading teams through stages where the plan was still being written.
The topics
Five subjects, each grounded in Peyman's venture building, technical work, and time in front of classrooms, boards, and industry rooms.
What progress actually looks like before momentum, funding, or clarity exist.
Most advice assumes the conditions are already in place: a budget, a team, a plan you believe in. This topic looks at the stage before that, where progress comes from small bets, fast feedback, and the discipline to keep building while nothing has been proven yet.
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How leaders make irreversible decisions with partial information.
A practical look at separating the reversible from the irreversible, naming the assumptions a choice rests on, and committing to a direction without waiting for certainty that rarely arrives.
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What setbacks teach, and how to recover without starting over blindly.
An unglamorous treatment of what breaks: the warning signs that arrive early, the decisions that follow, and how hard-won experience carries into the next attempt instead of being quietly discarded.
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Adopting AI and modern tools without outsourcing thinking.
Where AI genuinely shortens the path, where it quietly transfers risk onto your team, and how judgement stays in the loop as the tools in front of people get more capable every year.
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Leading teams when roles, systems, and direction are still forming.
Leading through the stretch where the org chart, the process, and the plan are all still under construction, and where the most useful thing a leader can offer is a clear way of deciding.
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Tell me the slot, the setting, and the audience and the session gets built around them.
A single focused talk, shaped to the length of the slot and the knowledge already in the room.
A shared conversation with a moderator, with room for the questions an audience is actually holding.
An interview about the work itself: the decisions, the setbacks, and what came next.
A working session where the audience applies the topic to their own situation rather than listening to it.
How it comes together
No two rooms are the same, so the preparation is where most of the work happens.
Who is coming, what they already know, and what they should be able to do differently afterwards.
The same topic runs differently with students, operators, and boards. Depth, examples, and length shift to match.
The measure of a session is a takeaway people can act on, not a story they admire from a distance.
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