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"If you want a keynote speaker who holds attention and leaves your team with something real, Jon is the call to make."

Randall Martin

Regional Sales Manager, Chadwell Supply

Speaker bios

Long bio

Jon Harmeling is a Frontline AI Leadership keynote speaker, West Point graduate, former West Point systems engineering instructor, Army veteran, and Chick-fil-A Operator. He applies AI inside a real frontline business with real employees, customers, and P&L pressure. His flagship framework, Machines do. Managers decide. Leaders develop., helps organizations use AI to remove administrative work without giving away human accountability, then reinvest the capacity technology creates into stronger people, customer experiences, and future leaders. Jon holds an MBA, is a PMP, and is finishing his DBA in business and leadership. His most recent keynote was at Chadwell Supply's Annual Sales Conference, where a Regional Sales Manager called him the best speaker he had ever seen.

Short bio

Jon Harmeling is a Frontline AI Leadership keynote speaker, West Point graduate, former West Point instructor, Army veteran, and Chick-fil-A Operator. His framework, Machines do. Managers decide. Leaders develop., helps people-intensive organizations use AI to create capacity and reinvest it into stronger human leadership.

Short intro

Frontline AI Leadership keynote speaker. West Point graduate. Former West Point instructor. Chick-fil-A Operator. Machines do. Managers decide. Leaders develop.

Speaking topics

Frontline AI Leadership: Machines Do. Managers Decide. Leaders Develop.

Flagship · 45 to 60 minutes plus Q&A

Jon's flagship keynote gives leaders a practical framework for deciding what AI should do, what managers must still own, and how to reinvest the capacity technology creates into people, customers, and performance. Grounded in real AI implementation inside a Chick-fil-A operation, the talk moves beyond productivity to the deeper leadership question: what will humans do with the capacity machines give back?

How AI Forces the Manager-Leader Choice

45 to 60 minutes plus Q&A

A focused leadership deep dive on what happens when AI absorbs more reporting, routing, paperwork, and administrative coordination. Jon shows managers how to move from supervising work toward judgment, coaching, trust, and developing people before the shift exposes the difference between management activity and human leadership.

Significance Over Success

45 to 60 minutes plus Q&A

A talk about what happens after you hit the metrics. Jon's path from West Point to Army service to losing that career to cancer, and then choosing a restaurant over the safer next job, is the case study. The framework explores how to choose work that compounds over a lifetime instead of merely impressing for a quarter.

Sample introduction

"Our next speaker is a West Point graduate, former West Point systems engineering instructor, Army veteran, and Chick-fil-A Operator who is applying AI inside a real frontline business. His work starts with a simple idea: machines can do more of the repeatable work, managers must still own the decisions, and leaders should use the capacity AI creates to develop people. His framework is: Machines do. Managers decide. Leaders develop. His most recent keynote was at Chadwell Supply's Annual Sales Conference. Please welcome Jon Harmeling."