Cameron Powell
Cameron cut his teeth telling moving, fact-based stories as a young trial lawyer right out of Harvard Law School, as a public speaker for the Corporate Executive Board, and as a founder pitching startup companies to investors, partners, and media.
He brings audiences and readers the diversity of thought and experience of a writer, an entrepreneur, a lawyer, an executive coach and talent builder, and a passionate student of:
great writing and literature
history and psychology
the world’s wisdom traditions, myths, and religions
nature and technology
In the last decade Cameron has spoken to audiences about disrupting talent and building teams, storytelling for fundraising and employer brands, the risks, rewards, and ethics of GenAI, and the courage-making, gratitude-boosting power of the Legacy Mindset [link to the sub-page for that particular speech].
Cameron helps your people
Build Gratitude and Focus, Courage and Creativity
by answering 3 vital questions.
Why
WHY do people tend to want bravening?
Fear stunts the human genius inside every one of us.
The greatest barriers we have to engaging and leading, creating and innovating, are our core human fears of failure and rejection. Imagine what we could do with our wild and precious lives if we were more fearless.
What
How can a legacy mindset make people braver?
Reflecting on legacy and mortality famously focus our priorities.
Steve Jobs knew. “Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.” Ron Shaich, founder of Panera, builder of Au Bon Pain, backer of Cava and Tatte, knows. Every year, on some tropical island, Mr. Shaich conducts a yearly premortem on himself.
Yes, there are proven tools for making human beings more fearless. Tools that make us braver. Freed of our fears of criticism and failure, we finally reach out or even commit, we create, we let go, we lead and innovate, we are grateful. We stop putting off what our future self would like us to do today. Welcome to the bravening.
How
How do we get a legacy mindset?
Cameron shares his own authentic personal stories and draws in audiences with wit and comic timing, a unique eloquence, and some acting ability (karaoke is extra). He talks about the tools used in wisdom traditions and approved by science.
Ordinary Magic Book
Life is a quiet journey where every step tells a story. The true depth of love is understood by those who keep their promises. Sometimes, the most ordinary moments turn out to be the most magical. Memories are the light that guides us, even through the darkest paths.
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Generative AI: Legal Risks, Business Opportunities
With a background in law and technology development, Cameron was ideally suited to take on, and explain to audiences, how GenAI works, shouldn't be expected to work, and can either create or destroy value (and intellectual property).
Cameron teaches executives and employees how to mitigate the legal risks of human-mimicking GenAI; how to spot opportunities to increase productivity, cut costs, or develop new products; how to develop internal policies and governance procedures; and how to work with, not for, Large Language Models like ChatGPT.
One of Cameron's most popular talks is called:
Use it Or Lose It: How to Use GenAI to Avoid Dementia, Delight Audiences, and Preserve Copyright
With GenAI, collaborate, don't abdicate
Will we someday find that the generations of people alive today -- yours -- developed dementia at the highest rates in history? (Spoiler: because of GenAI).
We need to work with GenAI as an athlete works with a teammate: rely, yes, but stay fit and agile yourself. Trust, but verify. Revision makes better work product, period; it's the concentrated thinking that consumers of our work want to consume; and it's the only way to preserve any copyright in your work.
To stay fit, you've GOT to find ways to keep using your mind.
Avoid atrophy of critical thinking
We've already lost the ability to memorize numbers. To add or multiply them. To know how to get around town without GPS. The critical thinking skills that are your own life insurance are now at risk in a way they never have been.
“[A] key irony of automation is that by mechanising routine tasks and leaving exception-handling to the human user, you deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their judgement and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving them atrophied and unprepared when the exceptions do arise.” -- Microsoft researchers.
That's why one of the key technologies, and cognitive workouts, Cameron recommends is the seemingly simple act of REVISION. Editing. Polishing. Thinking about and coming back to. Taking a first draft from ChatGPT and calling it a day isn't just bad for your copyrights; it could lead to quicker cognitive decline of the kind we all want to avoid.
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