AI Governance Speaker and Trainer
Helping Organizations Establish Clear Policies, Oversight, Accountability, and Risk-Aware AI Practices
As artificial intelligence becomes part of everyday work, organizations must decide how it should be used, who is responsible for overseeing it, and what safeguards employees should follow.
Without clear AI governance, employees may rely on unapproved tools, enter sensitive information into the wrong platforms, trust inaccurate outputs, or make inconsistent decisions about when AI should be used. At the same time, policies that are too vague or restrictive can prevent organizations from gaining meaningful value from AI.
Chris Cheetham-West, MBA, is an AI governance speaker and trainer who helps leaders and employees understand how to balance innovation with accountability. His practical presentations help organizations examine AI policies, employee expectations, risk, data handling, human oversight, and responsible adoption without overwhelming audiences with technical or legal jargon.
Chris works with businesses, government agencies, universities, associations, nonprofits, healthcare organizations, and other teams seeking a clearer and more coordinated approach to AI governance.
A Practical AI Governance Keynote Speaker for Today’s Workplace
AI governance is the structure an organization uses to guide and oversee artificial intelligence. It can include policies, roles, approval processes, risk reviews, employee training, data practices, documentation, and accountability.
Governance should answer practical questions such as:
- Which AI tools are approved for workplace use?
- What information should never be entered into an AI platform?
- When must a person review AI-generated work?
- Who approves new AI use cases?
- How should the organization respond when employees use unapproved tools?
- Who is accountable when AI influences an important decision?
- How should risks be documented and communicated?
- How often should AI policies and practices be reviewed?
Chris helps audiences explore these questions and understand how governance connects leadership, technology, security, legal, compliance, HR, operations, and everyday employee behavior.
Featured AI Governance Program
From AI Experimentation to Governance: Creating Clear Rules Without Stopping Innovation
This AI governance keynote or workshop helps organizations develop a shared understanding of how artificial intelligence should be evaluated, approved, used, and monitored.
The program is designed to make governance practical for both leaders and employees. It can support organizations that are developing their first AI policy, improving an existing policy, responding to Shadow AI, or expanding the use of platforms such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude.
Topics may include:
- Understanding AI governance and why it matters
- Connecting AI use to existing organizational policies and values
- Clarifying leadership, employee, and departmental responsibilities
- Developing acceptable-use expectations
- Identifying and responding to Shadow AI
- Evaluating new AI tools and use cases
- Protecting confidential, personal, customer, and proprietary information
- Establishing requirements for human review
- Managing inaccurate, incomplete, or biased AI output
- Determining when AI-generated work should be disclosed
- Creating an approval process for higher-risk uses
- Documenting decisions and maintaining accountability
- Educating employees about policies and safe use
- Reviewing governance practices as tools and regulations change
AI Governance Is More Than a Written Policy
A policy is important, but employees must understand what it means in real situations. A document that is rarely discussed may not prevent risky or inconsistent AI use.
Effective AI governance also requires:
- Clear ownership and decision-making authority
- Training that connects policies to actual employee tasks
- Consistent communication across departments
- Practical examples of acceptable and unacceptable use
- A process for requesting new tools or use cases
- Ongoing review as AI platforms and organizational needs change
- Leadership behavior that reinforces the organization’s expectations
Chris helps organizations turn governance principles into practical workplace decisions. Through scenarios, demonstrations, and discussions, participants can examine how policies apply to common uses such as writing, research, customer communication, hiring, data analysis, meeting summaries, presentations, and decision support.
Addressing Shadow AI in the Workplace
Shadow AI occurs when employees use AI tools without the organization’s approval, oversight, or awareness. Employees may turn to unauthorized platforms because they want to work faster, because approved tools do not meet their needs, or because expectations have not been clearly explained.
An AI governance presentation can help leaders explore:
- Why employees turn to unapproved AI tools
- How Shadow AI can create privacy, security, and compliance concerns
- How to identify gaps between policy and employee behavior
- How to provide useful approved alternatives
- How to communicate AI rules clearly
- How to encourage employees to ask questions before taking unnecessary risks
- How training and leadership support can reduce hidden AI use
The goal is to create visibility and accountability while still allowing appropriate innovation.
AI Governance for Leaders and Decision-Makers
Executives and department leaders do not need to understand every technical detail of artificial intelligence. They do need to understand the decisions that require leadership attention.
Chris can customize AI governance sessions for leaders around topics such as:
- Establishing organizational ownership of AI governance
- Defining responsibilities across leadership, legal, HR, IT, security, and operations
- Determining the organization’s tolerance for AI-related risk
- Prioritizing low-risk and high-value uses
- Evaluating AI vendors and tools
- Preparing employees for new policies and expectations
- Maintaining human accountability for important decisions
- Aligning AI governance with business goals and organizational values
- Creating a process for reviewing incidents, concerns, and emerging risks
These sessions help leadership teams ask better questions and make more informed decisions about AI adoption.
AI Governance Training for Employees
Employees are more likely to follow AI policies when they understand the reasons behind them and know how the rules apply to their daily responsibilities.
Employee AI governance training can cover:
- Approved and unapproved AI tools
- Appropriate data handling
- Confidential and sensitive information
- Accuracy and fact-checking
- Bias and fairness concerns
- Human review and accountability
- Intellectual property and ownership considerations
- Customer and public communication
- Escalating questions or questionable AI results
- Recognizing when AI should not be used
Role-specific examples can be created for marketing, human resources, sales, customer service, finance, operations, legal, healthcare, education, government, and other teams.
What Organizations Can Gain From AI Governance Training
An AI governance speaker or trainer can help organizations:
- Build a consistent understanding of AI expectations
- Reduce confusion about approved workplace use
- Strengthen coordination between departments
- Improve awareness of privacy, security, and accuracy risks
- Address Shadow AI more constructively
- Create greater accountability for AI-assisted work
- Help employees understand when human judgment is required
- Support more confident and responsible AI adoption
- Encourage innovation within clearer boundaries
AI Governance Keynotes, Workshops, and Executive Briefings
Chris and the LR Training Solutions team can provide:
- AI governance keynote presentations
- Responsible AI and governance workshops
- Executive and board briefings
- AI policy awareness training
- Shadow AI presentations
- Employee AI governance training
- Leadership retreats and strategy sessions
- Conference breakout sessions
- Virtual governance programs
- Multi-session training initiatives
Programs can be customized around an organization’s existing AI tools, policies, industry concerns, and employee experience levels.
Supporting Legal, Compliance, IT, and Risk Teams
AI governance often requires collaboration among several organizational functions. Chris’s sessions can help create a shared understanding across leadership, legal, compliance, information technology, cybersecurity, human resources, learning and development, communications, and operations.
The training is designed to complement the work of an organization’s legal, compliance, privacy, security, and risk professionals. It does not replace specialized legal or regulatory advice. Instead, it helps employees and leaders understand how governance expectations connect to everyday behavior and decision-making.
Why Organizations Choose Chris Cheetham-West
Chris Cheetham-West, MBA, is an international speaker, author, and founder of LR Training Solutions. He previously worked at Google, where he helped organizations understand and use emerging technology.
Chris has presented across 48 U.S. states and internationally for global brands, government agencies, universities, associations, healthcare organizations, and corporate teams. His customers have included Microsoft and other well-known organizations.
Chris is known for translating complex technology and business issues into clear, useful guidance. His AI governance presentations combine leadership strategy, workplace examples, audience discussions, and practical next steps that organizations can apply after the session.
Create a Clearer Approach to AI Governance
Organizations should not have to choose between innovation and accountability. With clear expectations, employee education, leadership alignment, and appropriate oversight, teams can explore AI opportunities while reducing unnecessary risk.
If your organization is developing an AI policy, responding to Shadow AI, expanding approved AI use, or preparing leaders and employees for new responsibilities, Chris and the LR Training Solutions team can customize an AI governance presentation or training program for your needs.
Contact LR Training Solutions to discuss an AI governance speaker, keynote, workshop, or employee training program.
AI Governance Speaker Frequently Asked Questions
What does an AI governance speaker discuss?
An AI governance speaker addresses how organizations guide, oversee, and manage artificial intelligence. Topics can include policies, roles, acceptable use, data protection, tool approval, human oversight, risk, accountability, employee training, and Shadow AI.
Is AI governance only for technology teams?
No. AI governance affects executives, managers, employees, legal teams, HR, compliance, security, communications, operations, and any department using AI tools or AI-generated information.
Can the presentation address our existing AI policy?
Yes. The program can be customized around your organization’s current policies, approved tools, employee concerns, and business objectives.
Can this training help employees understand AI compliance expectations?
Yes. The training can help employees understand how internal AI policies, data-handling rules, human review, and responsible-use expectations apply to their work. Specialized legal guidance should continue to come from the organization’s qualified legal and compliance professionals.
Are AI governance programs available onsite and virtually?
Yes. Chris and his team can deliver onsite and virtual keynotes, workshops, executive briefings, and multi-session training programs.