Severin Sorensen ★ Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Severin Sorensen, a renowned author and "AI Whisperer," has significantly impacted the business world with his profound AI expertise. Authoring seven best-selling books and training executive personnel from over 3,000 businesses, Sorensen leverages his extensive experience to help businesses ethically harness AI, providing invaluable insights and practical applications of AI in various business contexts.Key Publications:"The AI Whisperer (2nd Edition): Handbook for Leveraging Conversational Artificial Intelligence & ChatGPT for Business" (June 2024): This updated and expanded volume was written for non-technical leaders with 50 business use cases and innovative prompts derived from Sorensen's 14 years as an executive coach and business executive. This book improves on the original "The AI Whisperer" (2023), which achieved #1 ranking on Amazon."The AI Whisperer Draws": In this book, Sorensen blends AI with creativity, guiding non-technical individuals in generating AI-created art using platforms like MidJourney, making the creative process accessible and straightforward."The AI Whisperer Wizard Words": This book delves into the art of AI prompting, offering 100 semantic prompts to enhance AI outcomes, making it invaluable for strategizing and content creation."The AI Whisperer Life Hacks": This practical guide transforms AI into a daily utility, providing tips to augment everyday life for both personal and professional growth.Central to Sorensen's teachings is the ethical use of AI, emphasizing its role in augmenting human capabilities rather than replacing jobs. This forward-thinking approach empowers readers to leverage AI for advancing their skills and taking control of their future in an AI-enhanced landscape.Severin Sorensen's work not only offers theoretical insights but also provides actionable strategies for integrating AI into business processes, making AI accessible and beneficial for all. Learn more at AIWhisperer.org.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

ePraxis boosts executive growth and business success with AI-driven consulting, coaching, and executive search. Simply put, we help small and medium-sized businesses and their leaders get unstuck. For our clients, we're their 'Chief Tormentor.' In a "carefrontational" way, we ask CEOs the hard questions, call out their hidden issues, question their answers, and help them define actionable steps to grow. Our clients range from high-tech industry startups to small-to-medium-sized industrial businesses to giant billion-dollar enterprises. For better questions, better decisions, and better results, let's talk.

Arete Coach was founded in 2020 for executive coaches, by executive coaches, to celebrate and explore excellence in the art and science of executive coaching. In Greek mythology, Arete (ἀρετή) symbolizes 'excellence of any kind, moral virtue, and striving to live up to one's potential and purpose.' At AreteCoach.io we seek to support the executive coaching community by curating original content including podcasts, research, and forums for executive coaches to help them seed, grow, and nurture their business, so they can do the same for others. At Arete Coach our core values include:Arete Mindset: excellence, moral virtue; striving to live up to ones potentialRelational: collaborative, engaging, interactive, synergistic, and caringEntrepreneurial: agile, adaptive, creative, resourceful, and enterprisingTransparent: open, honest, balancing radical candor and human empathyEvergreen: lifetime learning, curiosity, growth, and continual improvementFrom simple beginnings with a weekly Arete Coach Podcast, we will start by exploring the art and science of coaching today. We intend to grow Arete Coach into a larger platform that supports and accelerates the future of executive coaching. On our roadmap, we will explore technology and its applications to coaching, conduct scholarly research, host coaches in residence, and organize coach peer review boards to ask the hard question: is a best practice, best practice? Coach development forums, learning roundtables, industry-specific discussion groups, joint-coaching conferences, technology tool yards, and curated online training, are some of the many things to come.At Arete Coach, we embrace the spirit and intent of the ICF and IAC coaching masteries objectives, and we seek to promulgate executive coaching conversation, content, insights, podcasts, research, and training consistent with the highest aims of the coaching profession. We embrace the best of our past.

San Diego, California, Us

Severin Sorensen was a Vistage Chair and executive coach of three (3) Utah Vistage Peer Executive Groups for Vistage Worldwide from 2010-2018. During his tenure at Vistage Severin received the "2011 Rookie of the Year Chair Award" from Vistage, and he was appointed a "Vistage Mentor Chair" in Feb 2012. In 2013, Severin started speaking to Vistage groups and conferences internationally, and he continues Vistage speaking today.Vistage is a premier peer-group based international organization of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and business owners. Vistage helps chief executives become better leaders, who make better decisions and achieve better results. The 60+ year-old organization has 22,000 executives in 20 countries. Vistage members around the world meet monthly in peer-groups with CEOs from up to 18 non-competing companies. Vistage-member companies generate nearly $300 billion in annual revenue and represent more than 1.8 million employees around the world.Severin Sorensen's Vistage Group Member Profiles:While a Vistage Chair Severin grew and managed three Vistage groups; (1) Vistage Group CE 507, the oldest Vistage group in Utah, is a serial entrepreneurs peer group focused on high growth, with several business models recognized as past "Inc 500" awardees, and future awardees. Vistage members of this group are largely the senior equity holder in their privately held companies; this Vistage group typically meets at locations from Salt Lake City to Provo, with members from around the state of Utah, and company revenues typically ranging from $20 million to $750 million. The Group goal is to 3x their businesses. (2) Vistage 3859 Chief Executive Group (for companies from the low millions to $60 million); and (3) Vistage 9176 Key Executive Group.

Severin Sorensen, CPP, leads a security related management consulting advisory services for Chief Security Officers (CSO), other C-Level Executives, and boards of directors. While at Sikyur, Mr. Sorensen served as the Chairman of the Physical Security Council, and Academic Program Advisor for Protection of Assets Course 1, for ASIS International, a 40,000 member professional association of security managers. The company Sikyur LLC (MD company) was wound down, and work efforts rolled into Sikurity LLC (UT company) in 2011, and continues today.

Prior company Sparta Consulting Corporation was acquired by Westec Intelligent Surveillance, and Severin Sorensen served as Managing Director, Sparta Consulting Corporation Business Unit and VP Business and Applications Development at Westec. Westec was subsequently acquired by Digital Witness in 2012 by Interface Security Systems and is now the 9th Largest Security Systems integrator with $167 million revenue (2017).

Founder, Severin Sorensen, CPP, President & CEO of Sparta Consulting Corporation, Bethesda, MD USA. Providing security consulting, systems integration, and monitoring services. Company acquired on July 22, 2005 to Westec Intelligent Surveillance (www.westec.com). From 1994 to July 2005, he was President/CEO of Sparta Consulting Corporation, a security consulting, security systems integration, and remote video monitoring solutions; and Program Manager of HUD’s Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) initiative from 1994-2002. Sorensen also served in the White House (1992-93) as a Special Assistant to the President and Regional Liaison, Bureau of State and Local Affairs, Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). Sorensen has consulted commercial industry, state and local governments, the US Government, Organization of American States, the World Bank, and other international bodies. He earned the Certified Protection Professional (CPP).

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Presidential Appointee, served as Special Assistant to President George H W Bush (POTUS 41), and Regional Liaison at the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Executive Office of the President, The White House.

M.Phil., Economics

B.S., Economics And Political Science Degrees