Book me to speak
Keynotes, panels, and podcast guest spots on technology adoption, AI without the hype, and building something real from nothing. Every talk gets shaped to the room, and I tell it straight.
What I talk about
Four places I usually start. Tell me who your audience is and I'll pick.
- Technology adoption in real organizations
- Most technology fails to stick because nobody planned for the humans using it. What that looks like inside a county office or a family firm, step by step, and the question every room asks first: what do you do about the one person who won't touch the new system?
- AI without the hype
- What AI can do for a small team right now, and what it still can't. I bring the desk a county clerk ran a full workday on, contract review and an RFQ included, and show where it refused to guess.
- Leading a legacy organization through change
- Inside a third-generation company the software is the easy part. The hard part is the meeting where the people who built the old way hear it's changing, and how you run that meeting so they stay.
- Eighteen years of independent media
- What it takes to keep an independent show honest when the genre around it turns into an industry: the sourcing rules, and the episodes that never ran because they couldn't be sourced.
Who you're booking
Shane Waters started one of the first true crime podcasts in 2008, as a college freshman with a microphone and a story that needed telling. He went on to build the Myths and Malice network, six shows with more than 1,500 episodes, and to found Margin, where he designs AI and automation for the organizations that run real towns. He now holds the technology seat inside a third-generation farm management company and is based in Wabash, Indiana.
High-resolution headshot available on request.
Where I've spoken
CrimeCon, the largest true crime event in the country, on the craft of the work and on building shows an audience trusts.
Podcast Movement, where the talk was about the systems behind a six-show network, the part most people never see.
Speaking inquiries, press requests, and podcast guest invitations all start the same way. Tell me about your audience and what you want them to walk away with, and I'll get you a headshot, a bio, or a talk title fast. Get in touch.