How To Contact Ethan Mollick, And What He Charges To Speak

To contact Ethan Mollick about a speaking engagement there are three routes: his own team, one of the bureaus that carries him, or an enquiry through PepTalk. His speaking fee is published in one place at $20,000 to $50,000 and left on request everywhere else.

Below is how each route works, what the public fee sources say, and six AI speakers who cover the same brief if the fee or the date doesn't land.

How do you contact Ethan Mollick about a speaking engagement?

Three routes. His own team handles enquiries directly through his site. A small group of bureaus carries him and can approach on your behalf. Or send the brief to us and we'll put it in front of his team for the right event.

Whichever route you take, lead with the date, the audience and the budget. Enquiries that arrive without a budget sit in a queue behind the ones that have one, and diaries at this level fill six to twelve months out.

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How much does Ethan Mollick charge to speak?

SpeakingFee.com lists Ethan Mollick's 2026 speaking fee at $20,000 to $50,000 for a keynote, exclusive of travel and accommodation. That is the only public figure available.

Washington Speakers Bureau, which ranks first for this question, publishes no range. Nor do AI Speakers Agency or Motivational Speakers Agency, both of whom direct you to contact them.

Treat the published range as an indication. Where a speaker's own team declines to publish, third-party estimates get reverse-engineered from historic bookings and copied between directories, and they drift. Format, travel, session length and lead time all move the figure. Send us your date and we'll come back with a current number rather than an estimate.

If the wider question is whether a high-fee name earns its place on your programme, we've written about hiring a celebrity speaker for a conference separately.

What is Ethan Mollick known for?

Mollick's appeal to organisers is the combination of academic credibility and a refusal to oversell. He tests things, reports what happened, and updates when the evidence changes. For an executive audience that has sat through a year of AI keynotes promising everything, that posture is the differentiator. It is the same shift we covered in moving from hype to opportunity on AI.

Where he is a poor fit is a brief that wants prediction. His material is about what is measurably true now rather than what the technology might do by 2030, which suits some rooms and disappoints others.

Which AI speakers work the same brief?

Three speakers on the PepTalk roster take an executive audience to the same place Mollick does, applying evidence to what AI changes about work. Useful as a parallel shortlist while an enquiry is in play, and as the answer where the fee or the date doesn't land.

Danilo McGarry has led AI and automation programmes inside RBC, Citigroup and UnitedHealth Group, and now advises boards through his own consultancy. He is ranked among the top 20 AI experts globally and works with organisations that have run a dozen proofs of concept and shipped none of them.

Book him where the brief is adoption rather than awareness. His material is about the organisational blockers, the governance, and what it takes to get a programme through procurement and into production.

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Ayesha Khanna is CEO and co-founder of Addo AI, an advisory and solutions firm working with governments and large corporates on AI deployment. She is a LinkedIn Top Voice for AI, based in Singapore, and spends her time on the questions boards actually ask: where to invest, what to build versus buy, and how to govern it.

She is the closest match on authority. Where a client wants Mollick because they want a serious, internationally recognised figure in front of the executive team, Khanna does that job and travels widely for it.

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Steve Brown spent 25 years at Intel, latterly as Futurist in Intel Labs and Chief Evangelist, then joined Google DeepMind as Senior Director and in-house futurist through the AlphaFold launch. He wrote The Innovation Ultimatum and The AI Ultimatum.

He works on what the next three to five years of AI capability mean for a specific industry, and he has been inside two of the organisations that built it. For a brief that wants a forward view rather than current evidence, Brown is the better booking of the two. He is also comfortable running a leadership workshop off the back of the keynote.

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Three more to shortlist

These three work the same subject matter from different angles, and each suits a specific kind of brief.

Frequently asked questions

How do you contact Ethan Mollick for an event?

Through his own team via his site, through one of the bureaus that carries him, or by sending the brief to PepTalk and letting us put it in front of his team. Lead with date, audience and budget whichever route you use.

How much does Ethan Mollick charge to speak?

SpeakingFee.com lists Ethan Mollick at $20,000 to $50,000 for 2026, excluding travel and accommodation. It is the only published figure. Washington Speakers Bureau and the other agencies carrying him handle pricing on request, so treat the range as indicative and ask for a number against your specific date.

Can you book Ethan Mollick through PepTalk?

For the right event, yes. We don't carry a profile page for him because his representation restricts that, and we can approach his team on your behalf. Send the date, audience and budget and we'll come back within a day on whether it's viable.

What does Ethan Mollick speak about?

AI and work, drawn from Co-Intelligence and his ongoing experiments at the Wharton Generative AI Labs. Sessions cover what AI measurably does to productivity and job design, how organisations should be experimenting, and where the current limits are. He also speaks on entrepreneurship and innovation.

Who is the closest alternative to Ethan Mollick?

Danilo McGarry where the brief is AI adoption inside a large organisation. Dr. Ayesha Khanna for a board or executive strategy audience. Steve Brown where the room wants a forward view of the technology. We take the same approach for other in-demand names, including alternatives to Simon Sinek.