Keynotes & Engagements

Keynotes from
the work.

Frameworks Will speaks from regularly, plus custom keynotes and workshops shaped to your event.

Signature frameworks

The frameworks Will speaks from — adapted to your audience, never delivered off the shelf.

01

Boards · Executive Teams · Marketing Leaders

The Invisible Race

How AI Search Is Reshaping Who Gets Found

For boards, executive teams, and marketing leaders who need to understand why AI has quietly changed who gets found. Will opens with where the room actually stands in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, then shows the mechanism underneath it: these models can only recommend what they have read about you, so coverage is the whole game. From there it becomes practical. Video is the highest-leverage thing a busy leader can produce, because one recording yields a transcript, and a transcript becomes clips, articles, newsletters, and answers to the questions customers are already asking. Attendees leave with the five-move workflow that turns that into a routine, real numbers from client work, and a clear first action for the week.

The Proof Behind This Talk

Xponent21

The agency doing this work nationally — 4× organic visibility for Pool Brokers, AI Overview placements for EPD.

02

Corporate Retreats · Chambers · University Programs

AI Ready

Leading Your Organization Through the Intelligence Era

A practical, energizing session for leaders navigating AI adoption — strategy, culture, systems, and the human side of the transition. Used with corporate retreats, chambers, and university programs. Leaders leave with an adoption framework, a shared vocabulary, and answers to the questions their teams are already asking.

The Proof Behind This Talk

AI Ready RVA

Virginia's leading AI community — the nonprofit Will co-founded with civic and academic leaders.

03

Innovation Teams · Founders · Product Leaders

Build Like a Founder

What Vibe Coding and AI-Native Development Mean for Your Business

For innovation-focused audiences curious about how AI is collapsing the distance between an idea and a working product. Live demonstrations, honest economics, and a clear framework for who inside your company should be building with AI right now — and what to do with what they build.

The Proof Behind This Talk

Will Melton Studio · 52 Apps in 2026

51 apps shipped in public to date — the proof behind the talk.

04

Nonprofit Leaders · Executive Directors · Board Members

The Nonprofit AI Playbook

Writing Policy for a Future You Haven't Met Yet

Most nonprofit AI policies are written for chatbots. In eighteen months, chatbots won't be what nonprofits are governing. This session walks nonprofit leaders through a four-rung diagnostic for where their organization actually stands on AI adoption, demonstrates what's now possible at Rung 4 — including technology built with grant funding that generates ongoing revenue — and works backward to the AI policy their organization needs now. Grounded in the nine-part Nonprofit AI Playbook and real-world discovery sessions across the sector, attendees leave with clarity on the adoption gap in their own organization, the six domains a working policy must address, and a concrete next move. Designed for executive directors, senior staff, and board members who need to govern AI responsibly without slowing their mission down.

The Proof Behind This Talk

AI Ready RVA

Virginia's leading AI community — the nonprofit Will co-founded to help organizations across the region get fluent in AI.

Record of engagements

On the calendar & on the record.

Upcoming1 event
Past
Recently26 engagements
Oct 27, 2026

From Pain Point to Profit

Jason Best's design thinking class · VCU Interdisciplinary Studies and Innovation · Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Jun 16, 2026

Use AI to Get Your Time Back

From Stable to Scalable: Use AI to Support Business Growth · City of Richmond Office of Minority Business Development (OMBD) · Fulton Bank, Stony Point Branch · Richmond, VA

May 13, 2026

Live Networking Game Build

HYPE × AI Ready RVA: The AI Happy Hour · ChamberRVA HYPE and AI Ready RVA · Black Iris · 321 W Broad St, Richmond, VA

Engagement Types

How Will shows up.

Conference Speaker

Mainstage keynote for your industry event or summit.

Workshop Facilitator

Executive training, board sessions, and team workshops.

Live Build

Will builds a working app in real time, with the room driving the build. At the end, the group keeps the outcome — built live, shaped by you, yours to use.

News Expert

On-camera commentary and written quotes on AI topics.

Podcast / Radio Guest

Guest appearance with discussion guide and audience-aware framing.

Paid engagements · $5K–$25K · Limited pro bono

Ready to talk?