AI Strategy & Digital Transformation
How organizations build the resilience to absorb successive technology waves, and why culture and data assets matter more than algorithms.
Berkeley · Stanford · HEC Paris
Turning AI disruption into
organizational advantage.
Gregory La Blanc helps executives guide their organizations through disruptive technologies, most recently the AI wave. He has advised leaders at more than 100 companies and governments, and teaches at UC Berkeley, Stanford, and HEC Paris.
- Faculty Director, Professional Education UC Berkeley College of Engineering
- Distinguished Teaching Fellow UC Berkeley Haas
- Has taught at Stanford GSB & HEC Paris
- Host unSILOed Podcast
01 About
Curiosity, applied at scale
For the past decade, Greg's work has centered on one question: how do organizations absorb AI and emerging technology and turn it into advantage?
His academic home is UC Berkeley's College of Engineering, where he is Faculty Director of Professional Education and a Lecturer. He is also a Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Berkeley Haas and Berkeley Law. At Stanford he has taught across the Graduate School of Business, Economics, and Management Science & Engineering, and at HEC Paris he leads the Digital Transformation course for Executive MBAs and executive education.
He hosts unSILOed, a podcast with more than 600 episodes of conversation across disciplines. It is the same range he brings to AI strategy, connecting technology with finance, law, and organizational design.
Greg has worked alongside executives at more than 100 companies and governments, and has taught in over 30 countries, bringing the frameworks, tools, and perspectives leaders need to navigate accelerating technological change.
Beyond the university, he advises U.S. pension funds, including teachers' and public-employee retirement systems, and is an active angel investor and advisor to startups in AI, fintech, and people operations. His research sits at the intersection of law, innovation, and the use of data in rapidly changing industries.
02 Expertise
Where disciplines meet
Fintech & the Future of Finance
How AI, blockchain, and venture finance are reshaping banking and capital markets, and what regulators will do about it.
Data-Driven Decision Making
Building data strategies, managing data science teams, and applying people analytics and workforce science to organizations that experiment and learn.
Innovation & Disruption
Platform economics, the sharing economy, creativity and design thinking, venture finance, and how incumbents adapt to disruptive forces.
Leadership & Communication
Strategic leadership, how communication tests understanding, and the art of translating ideas across disciplines.
The Future of Education
AI in learning, interdisciplinary thinking, the evolving MBA, and why curiosity is the most important skill of all.
Companies have been using artificial intelligence since day one. The real differentiator is an organization's ability to integrate new tools seamlessly into their operations.
03 Speaking
Keynotes that connect the dots
Not another "AI is coming" talk. As a keynote speaker on AI transformation for companies, Greg gives executive audiences a working playbook drawn from AI transformations at 100+ organizations, 600+ podcast conversations, and two decades in executive education.
Built to Absorb: Designing Organizations That Metabolize AI
Why most AI initiatives stall at the pilot stage, and the architecture, incentives, and culture of companies that turn each new technology wave into compounding advantage.
Your Data Is the Moat: Strategy When Algorithms Are Free
Every competitor can rent the same models. What they can't rent is your proprietary data, your feedback loops, and an organization built to learn from them.
Money Moves Fast, Trust Moves Slow: AI & the Future of Finance
What AI actually changes in banking, payments, and capital markets, and why "move fast and break things" fails in an industry built on trust and regulation.
From Chatbots to Colleagues: Getting a Workforce to AI Fluency
The endgame isn't a transformation program. It's every employee wielding AI as naturally as a spreadsheet. What that transition demands from leadership.
Select engagements
- The Financial Academy, Saudi ArabiaExecutive Programs in AI & Finance
- Me2We 2025, Stanford LEADVC Bootcamp: A Deep Dive into AI Investments
- Berkeley Haas Alumni ConferenceWill AI Make Us More Productive?
- Evergreen Lectures, TU Wien (Austria)Berkeley Certificate Course in Data Science
- TiE Inflect, Silicon ValleyStartup Bootcamp
04 Offerings
Ways to work with Greg
Engagements with Greg usually take one of these five shapes, from a single keynote to a full Silicon Valley week. None of them is off the shelf: every program is designed in conversation with you, around your industry, your people, and your agenda.
Keynotes & Fireside Chats
A talk that gives executive audiences a working playbook, tailored to your industry. Topics range across AI transformation, digital strategy, fintech and the future of finance, data-driven leadership, and innovation.
Best for: conferences, leadership summits, board offsites.
Moderator & Interviewer
Greg hosts your panel, interviews your CEO, founder, or guest author, and keeps the conversation sharp. With 600+ podcast interviews behind him, drawing people out is his craft.
Best for: conferences, investor days, book launches, town halls.
Executive Education Week
A full week that future-proofs a leadership cohort, covering the technologies and strategies reshaping business.
Berkeley Edition
On campus at UC Berkeley with Greg's faculty network and a certificate. The flagship is the Emerging Tech Management Week: five days at Berkeley and in Silicon Valley, with faculty including Pieter Abbeel and Stuart Russell, hosted by UC Berkeley SCET & CKGSB.
Custom Edition
The same caliber of curriculum, designed and delivered independently by Greg anywhere in the world, built around your agenda.
Best for: corporate academies, government programs, bank and fund cohorts.
Silicon Valley Immersion
An access week, not a classroom week. Inside visits to tech companies and startups, meetings with VCs and founders, and evening debriefs where Greg turns what you saw into strategy you can use at home.
Best for: executive delegations, innovation teams, funds and ministries.
Strategy Sprint
The compressed version: one day, one room, your leadership team, and a working session on the forces reshaping your industry. Run in Silicon Valley or brought to you.
Best for: boards, professional associations, annual leadership meetings.
Every engagement starts with a conversation
Tell Greg what you have in mind. He replies personally and shapes the format around your goals.
Track record
Taught for. Worked with.
Universities scroll →
Companies, governments & institutions scroll →
…and executives from 30+ countries.
05 The unSILOed Podcast
600+ conversations across the silos
Interdisciplinary conversations with distinguished authors and experts across 50+ fields, inspiring new ways of thinking about our world.
Episodes by topic
“One of the absolute best podcasts bringing findings from academia to the general public!”
“One of the greatest public goods: free knowledge, varying perspectives.”
“Greg reads a ton of books, and uses his insights as a business school professor to dig deeper into the context of the authors.”
06 Global Advisory
For governments & organizations
From ministries to multinationals, Greg has taught and advised in over 30 countries, helping institutions build the capacity to adopt AI and emerging technology on their own terms.
Berkeley Engineering Professional Education
As Faculty Director of Professional Education at UC Berkeley's College of Engineering, Greg shapes how one of the world's leading engineering schools teaches AI, data, and emerging technology to working professionals and technical leaders.
- Professional and executive programs in AI, data science, and emerging tech
- Bridging engineering depth with business strategy
- Custom cohorts for organizations building technical leadership
Global consulting experience
- Advisor to executives at 100+ companies and governments worldwide
- Executive programs with The Financial Academy of Saudi Arabia
- Advisory work with the CEO and senior executives of Kazakhtelecom
- Mastercard Digital Safari cohorts from Azerbaijan, Turkey, Egypt, Ghana, and Georgia
- Custom digital-transformation workshops for financial institutions
- Advisor to U.S. teachers' and public-employee pension funds
Technology diffuses rapidly. What does not diffuse rapidly are managerial techniques and organizational architecture.
07 Credentials
Trained across the disciplines he teaches
Education
- BA in History, Politics, Philosophy & EconomicsUniversity of Pennsylvania ยท University Scholar
- BS Economics, Business AdministrationThe Wharton School ยท Mellon Fellow
- ABD, Financial HistoryUniversity of Pennsylvania ยท Graduate Fellow
- JDGeorge Mason University School of Law ยท Robert Levy Fellow
- LLMUC Berkeley School of Law ยท John Olin Fellow
Awards & honors
- Earl F. Cheit Award for Outstanding TeachingUC Berkeley Haas, 2009
- Presidential Teaching FellowUC Berkeley, 2009
- EWMBA Core Instructor of the YearBerkeley Haas, 2004-05
- John Olin FellowBoalt Hall, UC Berkeley
- Robert Levy Fellow in Law & EconomicsGeorge Mason University
Institutional roles
Faculty Director, Professional EducationUC Berkeley College of Engineering
LecturerUC Berkeley College of Engineering
Distinguished Teaching FellowUC Berkeley Haas & Berkeley Law
Has taught atStanford GSB & HEC Paris
Earlier teaching appointmentsWharton, Duke, University of Virginia, Hult, Universidad de los Andes, USF, Santa Clara
AdvisorU.S. teachers' & public-employee pension funds
Angel Investor & AI AdvisorStartups
Mentor AdvisorSutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology
AdvisorBerkeley SkyDeck
08 Media
In the press & on the mic
Press & publications
- CKGSB Knowledge: “AI Strategies for Success: Insights from Gregory La Blanc” ↗
- “In Praise of Irrational Investors” (with Jeffrey Rachlinski), book chapter in The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior (2005)
Guest appearances
- Think Fast, Talk Smart (Stanford GSB), Ep. 87: “How Communicating Tests Our Understanding” ↗
- Esade Do Better Talks: “How Generative AI Is Changing the Business World” ↗
- The Silicon Valley Podcast: “The Future of Banking and Fintech” ↗
- Here at Haas, Professor Series: “Interdisciplinary Thinking, Innovation, and the Future of AI” ↗
- Aubrey in Silicon Valley: “Breaking Silos: How Great Thinkers Build Better Strategy” ↗
- Talking Business About APIs: “Gregory La Blanc on Digital Transformation” ↗
Watch Greg in action
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Speaking
Keynotes and workshops on AI strategy, digital transformation, fintech, innovation, and leadership.
Executive education
Custom corporate programs and Berkeley-based executive education experiences.
Advisory
Strategy, data, risk, and organizational transformation, for companies and governments.