I help people build a life through the AI transition.
I built mine that way, and I have helped hundreds of others do the same. I teach AI with a practical approach that combines real systems with accessible workflows, with results you can check and maintain yourself.
Top-rated teacher and presenter on Generative AI. 10+ years of teaching technology, rated among the top 10 instructors worldwide. Published textbook author. Creator and editor of The Century Report.
“Best AI teacher. Bar none.” - Consultancy Client, April 2026
Top-rated
Generative AI presenter
10+ years
teaching, rated Top-10 instructor worldwide
Executive Board
member, EMU GenAI Summit
Ed.D.
candidate, Educational Leadership
1M+ visits
cumulative across publications, per site analytics
25k
combined subscribers and followers, July 2026
Venues include the EMU Gen AI Summit and the Relational AI Virtual Summit. Reach figures combine analytics from Shared Sapience, The Century Report, and social platforms.
Recent feedback
What people have said recently
Feedback from recent AI training sessions, summit presentations, community events, and consulting engagements.
“Best AI teacher. Bar none.”
“I felt like I could actually do what he was presenting.”
“...the most actionable AI training I've done.”
“I would take any course if Ben was teaching it.”
“Ben makes complex topics seem easy to understand.”
“Ben talked about the human part and the AI part... I am still constantly using the prompting tool.”
“...refreshingly balanced... guardrails, ethical considerations, real-world limitations. Exactly what I needed.”
EMU Gen AI Summit · Top-rated presenter
Relational AI Virtual SummitTop-rated AI presenter
Attendees consistently rate my talks and workshops highly for clear teaching, practical examples, and useful takeaways.
Published textbook author
Author of Microsoft Word 2019 & 365 and co-author of Building a Foundation with Microsoft Office 2016 (Labyrinth Learning), used by schools nationwide.
10+ years teaching
Corporate training, college classrooms, and academic leadership - rated among the top 10 New Horizons instructors worldwide, out of thousands.
Ed.D. candidate
Doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership, with research focused on educational technology and institutional change.
The mind behind The Century Report
My most popular work reaches tens of thousands of people every single day
The Century Report is a daily written news briefing and podcast read and viewed around the world. Models search and ingest sources around the clock, and an agent proposes a story slate each morning. I curate and approve the slate, launch a carefully prompted drafting pipeline, edit every story, record the podcast, and approve the AI-assisted production and marketing materials. Automated systems then publish and distribute the finished work. AI makes this daily scale possible, and I retain full editorial control at every stage.
Work with me
Four ways in
Every engagement starts with the same goal: you and your people leave more capable than you arrived.
Speaking
Keynotes, expert panels, and summit sessions on practical AI - clear, honest, and grounded in systems I build and run myself.
For: Conferences, summits, campuses, and corporate events.
Outcome: An audience that leaves with usable skills and a presenter your attendees rate at the top of the program.
Book a talk→Workshops
Hands-on sessions where people build a real AI-enabled tool during the workshop, then leave with a repeatable method.
For: Teams, faculty groups, and professional development programs.
Outcome: Participants who can actually do the thing afterward, with artifacts they keep using for months.
Plan a workshop→Consulting
AI enablement, self-hosted AI architecture, workflow automation, and AI literacy programs for teams.
For: Organizations and individuals who want AI working in their actual environment, on their terms.
Outcome: Working systems, clear recommendations, and a team equipped to run them.
Book an intro call→Community
Shared Sapience - a long-running community for people building a life through the AI transition, with ongoing guidance between sessions.
For: Anyone who wants steady, honest help rather than a one-time talk.
Outcome: A place to keep learning with people on the same path.
Join the community→The proof behind the teaching
I build with AI every day, so the teaching stays relevant
Everything I teach comes from systems I designed, built, and still run. These are a few of them.
The Century Report
A daily written briefing and podcast produced through a 14,000+ line pipeline I built, with my review and approval at every stage. When I teach automation, this is the working system behind the lesson.
Sam
A commercial AI social media manager, shipped and sold as a real product. When I talk about taking an AI idea to done, I have done it.
WorkAgent
A RAG assistant for curriculum work with human-in-the-loop review, running inside a real institution. Workplace AI advice, tested in an actual workplace.
Obi
An AI podcast participant with persistent memory and a live voice loop, on air with real people. Voice and agent design, demonstrated in public.
40+ service home lab
A self-hosted stack of 40+ services with full monitoring, backups, and secure networking. Self-hosting guidance from someone who runs it daily.
Custom RTX 4090 workstation
A hand-built Ryzen 9 / RTX 4090 machine for local inference, image generation, and transcription. Local AI taught from local hardware.
Beyond one-time talks, there is a community
Shared Sapience is the long-running community where I keep teaching between sessions - honest guidance, working examples, and people building their own path through the AI transition. If my approach resonates, you are welcome there.
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