Rethinking Inc.

Talks and workshops that send faculty home with something to run Monday.

Keynotes, half days, and full-day intensives on AI in teaching, mastery-based learning, and entrepreneurship education. Every one ends with specific steps, prompts, and permission to start small.

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Dr. Doan Winkel

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and John J. Kahl Sr. Endowed Chair, John Carroll University. Founding Director, Bill & Sue Donnelly School of Leadership and Social Innovation.

TEDx speaker and curator. OpenAI Education Advisory Council. Cofounder of a curriculum used at 200+ colleges. Read weekly by 30,000+ educators.

Doan Winkel

Where I’ve spoken

Academy of ManagementAmerican Psychological AssociationCanadian Council for Small Business and EntrepreneurshipCarroll UniversityCollegiate Entrepreneurs' OrganizationEastern Academy of ManagementEntrepreneurship Education ConsortiumEuropean Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE)Fullerton CollegeICSBIllinois State UniversityINTRINSIC (EU)John Carroll UniversityKyushu UniversityMarietta CollegeMillikin UniversityNACCEOhio Ed Tech SummitRidgewater CollegeFeather River CollegeRowan UniversitySociety for Industrial and Organizational PsychologySouthern Management AssociationTEDxUnion CollegeUniversidad Anahuac Mexico Sur (Mexico City)University of South DakotaUniversity of Wisconsin-WhitewaterUSASBE

Five talks

Each one runs as a keynote, a half-day workshop, or a full-day intensive, and each one is rebuilt around your faculty and your term.

Stop Fighting AI. Start Teaching With It.

Most requested

The panic is the problem. How to turn the tool your students already use into the one that makes them think harder.

The room leaves with

  • Three things faculty can run in class the next day.
  • A simple test for where AI deepens learning and where it quietly replaces it.
  • Permission to start with one assignment instead of overhauling the whole course.
Keynote (45 to 60 min) or half-day workshopHigher ed facultyK-12 teachersAcademic leaders
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The Teacher AI Can't Replace

What changes, what doesn't, and the one thing a teacher does that no model ever will.

The room leaves with

  • A clear picture of what shifts for teachers and what stays exactly the same.
  • The specific skills teachers need to stay a step ahead of their own students.
  • One concrete change to make before this semester ends.
Keynote (45 to 60 min)Higher ed facultyK-12 teachers
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Your Grades Are Hiding the Truth

Why traditional grading hides what students learned, and what mastery-based assessment shows you instead.

The room leaves with

  • Why competency-based systems beat traditional grading, in plain language.
  • A first step you can take without redesigning the whole course.
  • Examples from real classrooms, not theory.
Keynote (45 to 60 min) or half-day workshopHigher ed facultyK-12 teachersAcademic leaders
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Everyone Talks Innovation. Almost Nobody Ships It.

A practical playbook for institutions tired of talking about change and ready to run it.

The room leaves with

  • The traps that stall change, and how to get around them.
  • A path from innovation talk to one shipped pilot.
  • One thing a department can run next month.
Keynote (45 to 60 min) or leadership working sessionAcademic leadersDeans and administratorsDistrict leadership
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Entrepreneurship Is Not a Business Plan

Teaching the mindset and skill set every student needs for a career that doesn't exist yet.

The room leaves with

  • Why entrepreneurship is a set of skills, not a business-plan assignment.
  • Classroom practices that build an entrepreneurial mindset in any discipline.
  • The curriculum I cofounded, used at 200+ colleges, distilled to what works.
Keynote (45 to 60 min) or half-day workshopHigher ed facultyProgram directorsK-12 teachers
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Watch the TEDx talk

Rethinking what college is for, in twelve minutes. The AI talks run the same way: a claim, a demonstration, something to use.

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Everything a committee or a budget holder asks for, ready to forward.

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Bio, 100 words

Dr. Doan Winkel is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at John Carroll University, where he holds the John J. Kahl Sr. Endowed Chair and is the Founding Director of the Bill & Sue Donnelly School of Leadership and Social Innovation. He cofounded the Experiential Entrepreneurship Curriculum, used at more than 200 colleges, and serves on the OpenAI Education Advisory Council. A TEDx speaker and curator and a Justin G. Longenecker Fellow, he writes How to Teach With AI, read by more than 30,000 educators, and has helped more than 15,000 teachers use AI in their classrooms. Every talk ends with something the audience can run on Monday.

The talks, one page

All five talks, formats, fees, and contact on a single sheet.

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Ask about a date

On-site keynotes and half days start at $2,500 a day plus travel. Virtual sessions cost less. I take two or three trips a semester, so ask early and name the date.

Tell me the event, the date or term, roughly how many people, and what you want them to leave with. I reply with two or three dates that work and a plain quote.

dwinkel2@gmail.com

A rough date or the term is enough. Say if it is virtual.

Or email dwinkel2@gmail.com