Patrick R. Dempsey

Patrick is the founder and co-CEO of Pend AI, personalizing AI transformation for how people think about Human+AI Work. He has an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, an MA in Counseling, and an M.B.A. in Organizational Management. He is editor the collaborative volume: What Education Becomes: Teaching and Learning in a Post-AI World (2026) and author of Creating Transformative Online Communities in Higher Education (2021). He is a highly sought after keynote speaker, presenter, and workshop facilitator on the topics of AI in education, curriculum design, and modern pedagogies. Patrick publishes weekly on his "Second Draft" Substack, where he maps the emerging discipline of Human + AI Work—tracing how education, expertise, and human capability evolve as AI reshapes knowledge, work, and meaning.