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Meet Erin Austin
Speaker | Corporate Attorney | AI + IP Strategist
Erin Austin is a Harvard Law alum, business strategist, and the go-to legal mind for experts ready to scale their brilliance. With 25+ years of experience closing IP-driven deals for major players like MGM/Amazon, Warner Bros., and M3 USA, Erin helps coaches and consultants protect, license, and monetize their intellectual property—legally and ethically.
As the founder of Think Beyond IP, she’s the trusted advisor to expertise-based businesses navigating the legal and ethical minefields of copyright, client work, and the exploding use of AI.
In a world where content can be copied in seconds and AI blurs the line between original and automated, Erin helps her clients stay in control—protecting what’s theirs and building what scales. Known for her sharp insight and plain-English advice, she empowers experts to turn their genius into sustainable, scalable businesses—without putting their IP at risk.
My Core Speaking Topics
In a world racing toward automation, I show audiences why human judgment and professional integrity are the new competitive edge. As a speaker, I help consultants, creators, and advisors protect their IP, build trust, and use AI with intention—not at the expense of what makes them valuable.
TOPIC #1
In the Age of AI, Owning Your Ideas Is an Act of Resistance
TOPIC #2
Maintaining Your Humanity in the Age of AI
TOPIC #3
Leading with Integrity: AI Ethics in an Unregulated World
“I'm the one who thanks you IMMENSELY!! You were fabulous and your presentation was, hands down, one of the best and most complete I've seen on the topic. Thanks a million for all the thought and work that went behind it — the audience loved you!”
Helena Escalante, New York Public Library
In the Age of AI, Owning Your Ideas Is an Act of Resistance
In a world where algorithms can remix your work in seconds and AI tools churn out content that sounds like you—but isn’t—owning your ideas has become an act of resistance.
In this provocative presentation, Harvard-trained intellectual property lawyer and AI legal strategist Erin Austin issues a wake-up call to experts, creators, and consultants: If you don’t proactively claim and protect your ideas, someone—or something—else will.
With powerful legal insights, Erin explores how AI is disrupting authorship, diminishing value, and blurring the boundaries of ownership. She makes the case that asserting your IP rights isn’t just smart business—it’s a refusal to be erased, diluted, or replaced.
Audience:
B2B experts, including creators, coaches, consultants and entrepreneurs
Format Options:
Presentation, breakout session or lunch and learn
Time: 45-90 minutes
Workshop, live or virtual
Time: 90-180 minutes
Audience Takeaways
Why generative AI poses new risks to authorship, originality, and visibility for experts
The legal and ethical implications of AI-generated content
Why intentional IP strategy is now essential to staying relevant—and respected—in an AI-driven world
An empowering first act of resistance to protect your intellectual property
Maintaining Your Humanity in the Age of AI
A recent study found that 74% of executives trust AI for business advice more than colleagues—and nearly half defer to its reasoning over their own. As AI becomes embedded in every corner of the workplace, what happens to trust, judgment, and real human connection?
In this provocative keynote, intellectual property lawyer and AI legal strategist Erin Austin examines how unchecked AI adoption is quietly eroding the relational core of expert services. Drawing on legal insights, behavioral research, and real-world examples, Erin reveals how professionals—consultants, coaches, and knowledge workers—risk becoming interchangeable if they fail to protect what makes them irreplaceable.
From the boardroom to the coaching session, this talk challenges audiences to rethink what it means to lead, advise, and serve in the AI era. Because protecting your humanity is as critical as protecting your IP.
Audience:
Executives and B2B experts, including creators, coaches, consultants and entrepreneurs
Format Options:
Presentation, breakout session or lunch and learn
Time: 45-90 minutes
Workshop, live or virtual
Time: 90-180 minutes
How AI is reshaping trust, judgment, and connection in expert-client relationships
Audience Takeaways
How relying too heavily on AI can weaken collaboration, cloud judgment, and create legal and ethical risks
A framework for integrating AI that supports—not replaces—human wisdom
Actionable strategies to maintain client trust and professional credibility in an AI-driven world
Leading with Integrity: AI Ethics in an Unregulated World
While lawmakers debate and platforms evolve, AI is already shaping how we work, communicate with, and serve our clients. But without clear legal guardrails, it’s up to us—experts, consultants, and professional advisors—to set the standard.
In this timely and provocative session, Harvard-trained IP lawyer and AI legal strategist Erin Austin challenges professionals to move beyond compliance and toward principled action. She explores how the lack of AI regulation creates both risk and responsibility—and why ethical self-governance is now essential to maintaining client trust, professional credibility, and business sustainability.
This is not a tech talk. It’s a leadership call: to own the impact of the tools we choose and the trust we hold.
Audience:
Executives and B2B experts, including creators, coaches, consultants and entrepreneurs
Event Options:
Presentation, breakout session or lunch and learn
Time: 45-90 minutes
Workshop, live or virtual
Time: 90-180 minutes
Why waiting for regulation is not an adequate risk management strategy
Audience Takeaways
The ethical implications of using AI with sensitive, proprietary, or client-facing data
How to identify blind spots in your AI use that could erode trust or violate expectations
Practical steps to align AI adoption with your values, brand promise, and client obligations
I had the pleasure to listen to "What Clients Think about You Using AI". It helped our firm’s queries on AI and potential downside to our field Architecture & Engineering. Thank you for your presentation. This helped our firm laid down some policy concerning AI.
Sarah Bricka, ensembleD Architecture and Engineering
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