Dr. Jeremy Utley
Adjunct Professor, Stanford d.school | Host of Beyond the Prompt | Author
Adjunct Professor at Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) and author of 'Ideaflow'. Host of the 'Beyond the Prompt' podcast. Trains Fortune 100 executives and design teams on leveraging conversational AI to break cognitive bias, accelerate ideation, and drive creative problem solving.
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Proof of Work
Beyond the Prompt: Systematic Problem-Finding Protocols
Designed an executive training curriculum teaching cross-functional leadership teams how to use recursive questioning chains with frontier models to discover overlooked root causes in enterprise operations.
Requires psychological safety within leadership teams to explore disruptive findings honestly.
Context: Socratic questioning prompt chains, recursive reflection loops.
View missionAI as a Creative Catalyst: Breaking Cognitive Fixation in Executive Strategy
Published research-backed frameworks demonstrating how randomized LLM temperature prompts and provocative counter-factual personas overcome cognitive fixation in corporate innovation workshops.
Executives must be guided through structured filtering so generative volume does not cause decision paralysis.
Context: OpenAI GPT-4, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Stanford d.school ideation protocols.
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