Speaking

I have been paid to speak for more than a decade, in English and in Spanish, to rooms of founders, marketers, investors and executives. Today I speak first about running a company on AI agents, because I run one, and I put the agents to work on the screen in front of the room. I also speak about the brain, about marketing, and about the beverage and consumer goods business I spent more than twenty years in. Keynotes, workshops and working days, one booking form, no prices on the page.

Two minutes from the stage: GKIC SuperConference, Angel Money Live, New York with Steve Forbes, and the Harvard Club Investment Conference. Captioned; press play for sound.

The talks

The Company That Runs on Agents
  1. ProblemFind, hire, onboard, train and chase a marketing team. Then they quit, and it starts again.
  2. BenefitA VP agent per line, agents that do the work, a scorer and a compliance check. A person signs.
  3. TransformationA company that runs on agents: marketing and sales today, then service, HR and finance.

The problem it solves for the room: executives who have been told AI will change their business and have not seen anyone actually do it.

At Guz.ai I build the agents myself. As of October 2026 the laboratory holds fifty-three agent definitions and eighty-two skills across nine product lines, from an advertising agent to a LinkedIn agent to a website builder. For most of my career, most of my energy went to hiring, onboarding, training and follow-up. Now a VP agent runs each line, worker agents do the work, a scorer grades it, a compliance agent can stop it, and a person signs.

The middle of the talk is a live lab run: the room picks a product, and on the screen the agents research the buyer, write a week of LinkedIn posts, draft an ad test and write a press release, each one scored before the room sees it. Then what it costs, where it breaks, and what the rest of the company looks like when customer service, HR and finance run the same way. The room leaves with the first three agents to start on Monday.

Brain Damage
  1. ProblemRunning on empty and still expected to perform.
  2. BenefitA formula tested through traumatic brain injuries and two years in bed.
  3. TransformationA team that keeps going under pressure, and one hourglass to take home.

The problem it solves for the room: people running on empty who still have to perform, and leaders who need a team to keep going under pressure without pretending the pressure is not there.

At fourteen I was in the back of a police car in Tijuana wondering how to talk my way out. I spent the next thirty years studying influence, motivation and happiness, and used them to run companies, raise money and write books. Then an airport shuttle hit a freeway barrier and I woke up with traumatic brain injuries, two years in bed, and no way to talk my way out. This is the talk about what held when nothing else did: the formula I had tested on myself, and one tool, an hourglass, that I hand the room at the end.

Marketing Karma
  1. ProblemA good product, no one paying attention, and marketing measured by activity.
  2. BenefitMarketing that gives first, and systems that compound.
  3. TransformationA LinkedIn profile that works as a sales machine, with the steps on the slides.

The problem it solves for the room: companies with a good product and no one paying attention, and marketing teams measuring activity instead of what comes back.

Built on my book of the same name. Marketing that gives first, systems that compound, and the one channel I have taught from the biggest marketing stages in the country: a LinkedIn profile turned into a sales machine, which is the keynote I gave at the GKIC SuperConference. Practical, with the steps on the slides.

AI in Consumer Goods: From Shelf to Agent
  1. ProblemListings, ads and retail data move faster than a brand team can.
  2. BenefitMore than twenty years in beverages and consumer goods, plus the agents.
  3. TransformationA brand where agents run listings, ads and retail data, from shelf to sale.

The problem it solves for the room: beverage and consumer brands, distributors and retailers who need to know what AI changes in listings, ads, retail data and the sales floor.

More than twenty years in beverages and consumer goods, from distribution companies in the United States and Mexico to more than a thousand products, and now the agents. For industry conferences and company meetings, on the business itself or on AI applied to it.

More AI talks, each with a live demo: Your Next Marketing Team Is Agents (a hands-on build for marketing teams) and The AI Sales Machine (LinkedIn plus agents that research, write and book, while the person still sends). A leadership talk, Leadership Karma, is in development; ask if the room needs it.

Formats

  • Keynote, in person. Forty-five to sixty minutes, with questions, and a prep call with the organizer.
  • Keynote, online. Thirty to forty-five minutes, live, with questions. A customized version is built on your industry and your data, with a live lab run.
  • Half-day workshop. Four hours with one team: a short briefing, then a hands-on AI session where each person builds and runs an agent on their own business. A prep call before and a follow-up call thirty days after.
  • One day. A keynote or briefing for the whole company in the morning, and a lab with the leadership team in the afternoon designing their own marketing and sales agents. Prep call, follow-up call and a one-page action plan.
  • Weekly advisory. One hour a week by video for a year, with your agenda and numbers sent ahead and recommended action items after each call. For a small number of partners.
  • Expert call. One hour by video on beverages, consumer goods or AI in marketing. You send the questions ahead; I come prepared.

For the hands-on sessions: in a Guz.ai lab run, each attendee gets a Guz.ai user account for the session. When attendees build on their own, each brings a computer and their own AI account, and I show them how to build it correctly.

Rooms I have spoken in

Jorge Olson on the main stage at the GKIC SuperConference, 2017
GKIC SuperConference, 2017. Keynote: LinkedIn for Marketing.
Jorge Olson speaking to a full hall at GKIC Mexico in Tijuana, 2016
GKIC Mexico, Tijuana, 2016. In Spanish.
Jorge Olson on an investment panel at Growth Capital Expo 2015, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
Growth Capital Expo, Caesars Palace, 2015. Panel on raising private and public equity.
  • GKIC SuperConference, keynote on LinkedIn for Marketing, 2017
  • White Label Expo, Las Vegas, 2021
  • Angel Money Live, keynote
  • Harvard Club Investment Conference, New York
  • On stage with Steve Forbes, New York
  • Growth Capital Expo, Las Vegas, 2015, panel
  • Expo Franquicia, Mexico City, 2017
  • Tijuana Emprendedora, 2016
  • GKIC Mexico, Tijuana, 2016
  • Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, faculty and students
  • University Club, San Diego

Longer cuts of each talk, about five minutes apiece, are available to event organizers on request through the form below.

Book a talk

Tell me the room and the date; I reply myself. Privacy.

Watch the talks

One minute from each room, with a title card that says where it was and what the talk is about. Captioned; press play for sound.

GKIC SuperConferenceLinkedIn for Marketing keynote: why LinkedIn sends members to your group, and the one job of running it.
Angel Money LiveKeynote on books as marketing: how one trade-magazine article made a 26-year-old the expert in the room.
Success in the New Economy, with Steve Forbes, New YorkThe formula for influence: build yourself, then give it away.
Harvard Club Investment Conference, New YorkWhat institutional investors say when asked why they skip Mexico's entrepreneurs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you speak in Spanish?

Yes. I have given keynotes and workshops in Spanish across Mexico, and two of my books were written in Spanish. Tell me the language of the room and I prepare the talk in it.

Do you speak about beverages or consumer goods?

Yes. The business itself, or AI applied to it, for industry conferences and company meetings. I also write about both in Jorge Talks and in my books.

What do attendees need for a hands-on session?

For a Guz.ai lab run, nothing but a laptop and a browser: each attendee gets a Guz.ai account for the session. To build on their own, each attendee brings a computer and their own AI account. Either way the room needs Wi-Fi that holds everyone at once.

Where are you based, and do you travel?

San Diego. I travel for in-person keynotes and workshops; travel is part of the terms we agree on. Online keynotes need no travel.

What do you charge?

It depends on the format, the room and the travel, and I quote it in my reply rather than on a page. Use the form and tell me the event, the city and the date.