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CEO of AI Mindset. Former Chief AI Architect at NYU Stern. NYT #1 International Bestselling author. Edelman Top 50 Trusted Voices in AI.
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About Conor
Conor Grennan is the CEO and founder of AI Mindset, an executive-education firm he launched in April 2024 to help senior leaders at companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, McKinsey, JP Morgan, and NASA actually adopt AI across their organizations. Before that, he spent more than a decade at NYU’s Stern School of Business, most recently as its Chief AI Architect, where he designed and ran the AI training programs that became a model for enterprise deployment at Fortune 100s. Today he is listed on the Edelman Top 50 Trusted Voices in AI and writes to more than 140,000 followers on LinkedIn about the organizational realities of working with large language models.
Conor arrived at AI by an unusual route. He is the New York Times #1 international bestselling author of Little Princes (HarperCollins, 2010), a memoir of reuniting trafficked children with their families in Nepal. The book was translated into fifteen languages. He founded Next Generation Nepal in 2006 and was awarded the Dalai Lama Unsung Hero of Compassion Award in 2014 for that work. He teaches alongside Amy Webb in a MasterClass on AI, and is represented as a keynote speaker by Harry Walker Agency.
That background is exactly why he’s become one of the most-listened-to voices in practical enterprise AI. He’s not a model researcher or a venture pitch-deck optimist; he’s spent a decade in front of executives and classrooms teaching humans to change how they work. On AI Applied, he brings Fortune-100 pattern recognition — what actually gets adopted, what gets resisted, where the real productivity lives — to every tool review and news cycle. And on AI in Faith, the show he co-hosts on technology and Christianity, he brings his background in humanitarian work and moral philosophy to one of the hardest questions of this generation: what it means to build, use, and pastor people around machines that sound like us.
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The AI adoption problem is almost never a technology problem. It’s a permission problem, a habit problem, and a language problem.
Track record
2024 — present
CEO & Founder · AI Mindset
Executive AI training for Fortune 100s including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, McKinsey, JP Morgan, and NASA.
2013 — 2025
Chief AI Architect · NYU Stern School of Business
Built and ran AI training programs for NYU Stern faculty, students, and executive-education clients over a 12-year tenure.
2024
MasterClass Instructor · MasterClass (with Amy Webb)
Co-instructor of a MasterClass on AI and leadership.
2006 — present
Founder · Next Generation Nepal
Founded a nonprofit that reunified more than 500 trafficked children with their families in Nepal.
2010
Author · HarperCollins
Published Little Princes, an NYT #1 international bestseller translated into 15 languages.
Education
NYU Stern School of Business
M.B.A. · 2010
University of Virginia
B.A. · 1996
Honors & recognition
Books
Little Princes
HarperCollins · 2010
NYT #1 international bestseller. Translated into 15 languages.
Press & appearances
MasterClass
Co-instructor with Amy Webb on AI and leadership.
Harry Walker Agency
Represented as a keynote speaker on AI, leadership, and change.
Edelman
Named one of the Top 50 Trusted Voices in AI (2024).
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