Strategic AI Advisor
Most executives understand that AI matters. Fewer know how to direct it, evaluate it, or build it into how their organizations actually think. Severin's WHISPER Framework™ gives leaders a repeatable system for high-output AI prompting, grounded in business logic not technical fluency. It's the difference between experimenting with AI and deploying it with precision.
Executive Coach
Severin has logged over 8,000 hours coaching executives through growth inflections, succession transitions, competitive disruptions, and the quieter challenges that don't make it onto agendas. His approach is rooted in the Arete tradition: the pursuit of excellence as a practice, not a destination. Clients don't come to Severin for answers. They come to think more clearly.
Keynote Speaker
Severin tracks the indicators that CEOs feel before they can name them and connects those signals directly to AI orchestration, hiring strategy, organizational design, and leadership bench strength. His sessions on AI, the economy, and top talent give executives a framework for making confident decisions in conditions where the data keeps changing. It's applied knowledge for people who want to act.
CEOs call Severin when the rules change
Severin Sorensen stands at a rare intersection: the intellectual rigor of a Cambridge-trained economist, the practical instincts of a senior White House advisor, and more than two decades shaping how C-suite leaders perform under pressure.
As CEO of ePraxis LLC, curator of Arete Coach, creator of The AI Whisperer, Severin has spent over 8,000 hours in the room with CEOs and executive teams as a thinking partner, helping leaders make better decisions, faster

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