Speaking & media
Talks & appearances
Speaking and media requests are welcome, and free. Where the calendar allows, I give talks, join panels and podcasts, and take interview requests on the questions this publication exists to answer.
The Fourth Stage is independent and written in a personal capacity. Every talk, appearance and conversation feeds the research.
What I research
Everything published here draws on an ongoing line of research:
- Organizational AI adoption
- How AI actually takes hold in an organization: past the pilot, past the demo.
- Use cases
- Which applications of AI are real, which are theatre, and how to tell early.
- ROI
- Where the value shows up, and how to evidence it honestly.
- The agentic coworker
- What changes about work when agents share the job with people.
- Organizational design
- Governance, risk and growth in an organization built to run on judgment and agents.
Talk themes
- The 4-Stage AI Maturity Journey, and how to break the Stage 2 Ceiling.
- Governance that fits the risk: graded control for agentic AI.
- Building the humangentic organization: where judgment and agents compound.
Selected appearances
- AI & YOU Masterclass 2025
A 100-minute live session on AI foundations, prompt engineering, and everyday use cases, with live demonstrations across search, marketing, job hunting and storytelling, and applications in research, education and small business.
View the session recap on LinkedIn →
Chats & clarifying inputs
If you live inside any of these questions, whether you’re driving adoption, weighing a use case, arguing about ROI, or redesigning how the work gets done, I’d genuinely like to hear it. Reach out for a conversation: clarifying inputs from practitioners sharpen and validate the briefs I publish here, and the exchange runs both ways.
Inquiries
For speaking, media, or a research conversation, email hello@benedictnwankwo.com or use the contact page.