Cultivation Over Strip Mining
Build AI systems that cultivate human capability, not extract it. Assessment, diagnosis, and cultivation practices for engineering teams.
Keynote Speaker · Consultant · Author
The human cultivation expert for the AI age.
Keynotes and workshops for leaders building AI systems that don't strip-mine their humans.
Three Pillars
How I Help Teams Thrive
Simple Mentoring
Three questions that change how people learn. The mentoring framework that actually gets used. Workshop delivery and team training.
Human Side of AI
Maximize the people dimension in AI-augmented work. Keynotes and workshops on the human infrastructure for agentic systems.
Signature Talks
What I Speak About
50 First Dates with AI
Every morning, your AI wakes up and doesn't remember yesterday. Here's how to fix that.
Current AI memory architecture is anterograde amnesia — and we're all Henry Roth, recording VHS tapes every night so our agent can wake up functional tomorrow.
Learn more →From Strip-Mining to Cultivation
The shift from extraction to cultivation in AI-era teams. Why throughput optimization is killing your soil health.
The most successful AI teams aren't the ones with the best models. They're the ones who stopped strip-mining their humans and started cultivating them.
Learn more →The Soil Under Your Team
Diagnose what's actually depleted before you fertilize. A diagnostic framework for team health.
Most team interventions fail because they prescribe before diagnosing. This workshop gives you a cultivation assessment framework that finds what's actually depleted.
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What People Say
"Scott has a rare ability to diagnose team dynamics quickly and prescribe actionable solutions. His cultivation framework changed how we think about AI adoption."
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