Chase the Flood.
Invite Crisis & Reimagine What’s Possible.
Satisfaction
Reached
“She took a horrible personal tragedy and used it as a hook anecdote for her speech, relating it perfectly to issues we have with technology and AI.”
Your organization is standing in a flood right now.
Every organization has a flood. The flood in your room right now might be AI. It might be a market shift your team isn’t ready for, a generational gap in how work gets done, or a strategy that stopped working but nobody said it out loud. The shape of the flood changes, but the human response doesn’t. The instinct’s always the same: close the door, hold the line, and wait for things to go back to normal. They won’t.
The real question isn’t whether your people are in a flood. They are. It’s whether your leaders will stand at the door, watching the water rise, or make the decision to move.
It’s not about surviving one specific disruption. It’s about building the leadership capacity to move through any of them, and coming out with a framework your people can use Monday morning. Chase the Flood doesn’t wait for your leaders to decide to move. It’s the push that gets them there.
“Absolutely inspiring. There is no flood that isn’t worth coming up with an action for, to come out on top.”
The Path to Higher Ground
Every audience member leaves with a three-part practice they can carry into their own flood, whether that flood is AI, organizational change, or a workforce in transition.
Your leaders learn to identify their non-negotiables, filter out the noise, and draw the line that tells their team exactly when to move and where to go.
Your team breaks the analysis paralysis loop and builds a repeatable method for moving forward with conviction, even before the path ahead is clear.
Your people stop chasing what the flood took and start building what it made possible. They walk out as living proof, giving their teams permission to follow.
What Walks Out of the Room (ROI)
A personal decision-making framework for high-disruption moments.
How to lead through change with honest, grounded language.
Practical moves that break analysis paralysis and generate speed.
A framework that bridges the gap between tech-fluent and tech-resistant teams.
A tangible exercise leaders can hand directly to their teams the week after the event.
See What Happens When the Water Rises.
Built for the room you’re planning.
Conferences, Organizations & District Teams
Chase the Flood speaks the language of teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders exhausted by the pace of change. Audiences leave with a clear framework to navigate AI adoption while anchoring the human core of great teaching.
- EdTech & innovation conferences
- District & campus leadership teams
- State & regional education service centers
- Curriculum & instructional leadership retreats
Leadership Teams & Industry Conferences
For corporate audiences navigating workforce transformation and AI adoption, Chase the Flood delivers the same urgency with a business lens. Ayo has shared stages with leaders from Google, IBM, Deloitte, and Microsoft.
- Executive offsites: Leadership retreats
- HR & L&D: Workforce transformation conferences
- Associations: Annual conferences & conventions
- Tech adoption: Change management initiatives
Booking Format, Fees & Availability
What’s Included
- The Pre-Event Discovery Call
- The Custom Pre-Event Marketing Video
- Event Ambassador Availability for TV, Radio or Print Interviews
- The Customized “Chase the Flood” Keynote Experience
- Live-from-the-Event Social Media Post
- Bulk Book Orders and On-Site Book Signing
- The “Path to Higher Ground” Implementation Kit
- The Post-Keynote Audience Insight Debrief
- A Podcast-Style Conversation, Before or After the Event
