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Lolita Johnese is redefining what it means to grow a practice in the age of AI.
Known as The AI Experience Architect™, LJ built her career studying how trust is built, broken, and rebuilt - inside litigation departments, HR departments, sales organizations, and sold-out live events - before turning that expertise toward one specific mission: helping coaches, therapists, and counselors use AI without losing the human connection their work depends on.
Her keynote, From Artificial Intelligence to Authentic Influence: How Coaches, Therapists, and Counselors Build Human Connection in the Age of AI, introduces her signature AUTHENTIC™ Method - a nine-step framework for using AI to attract clients, deepen trust, and grow a practice ethically. Audiences don't leave with more to figure out. They leave with a system.
I help therapists and life coaches humanize AI marketing with my AUTHENTIC™ Method - building trust, winning clients, and growing revenue.
Lolita Johnese has spent her career proving that data and humanity aren't opposites - they're partners. As Chief Experience Officer of Hustle & Geaux Productions, LJ built and executed the marketing strategy behind the Atlanta Adult Prom Experience, selling over 500 tickets in seven weeks. She's repeated that kind of growth on social media, too - taking accounts to more than 10,000 new followers in a single 30-day period, more than once.
Before helping build sold-out experiences, LJ spent nearly two decades inside the mechanics of human behavior, trust, and conflict. She holds a Juris Master in Employment Law & HR Risk Management from Florida State University College of Law (highest honors, 4.26 GPA) and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Florida. She is currently completing her PsyD, expected in September 2026, and she will resume her Doctorate in Business Administration studies next year - a dual-doctorate path built deliberately to pair deep psychological expertise with advanced business strategy, the exact combination behind the AUTHENTIC™ Method.
LJ also hosts a monthly podcast (Geaux Deep) on TikTok centered on grief, men's mental health awareness, and other topics, such as emotional awareness - hard, honest conversations that reflect the belief driving everything else she builds: connection, done right, doesn't get replaced by technology. It gets amplified by it.
That belief is the foundation of her signature AUTHENTIC™ Method, the framework she now teaches coaches, therapists, and counselors.
ABOUT Lolita
Lolita's Talks
For Therapists, Counselors, & Coaches
45–60 MIN · WORKSHOP FORMAT AVAILABLE
From Artificial Intelligence to Authentic Influence:
How Coaches, Therapists, and Counselors Build Human Connection in the Age of AI
Every helping professional is being told to adopt AI - and almost no one is telling them how to do it without eroding the very trust their practice runs on. In this keynote, LJ introduces her signature AUTHENTIC™ Method, a nine-principle framework for using AI to attract clients, deepen relationships, and grow a practice ethically.
Audiences don't leave with more to figure out. They leave with a system.
For Executive Leadership, HR & Associations
45–60 MIN · WORKSHOP FORMAT AVAILABLE
Trust at Scale:
How Leaders Build Authentic Influence in the Age of AI
Organizations can no longer compete on expertise, technology, or efficiency alone - those are commodities. What can't be automated is trust, and trust is exactly what's eroding as AI floods every channel with content that sounds like nothing and no one. LJ holds the SHRM-CP designation and has spent her career on both sides of that problem: navigating HR issues, investigating insurance claims where trust had already broken down, and building the marketing behind a business that sold out in seven weeks precisely because it didn't sound automated.
In this keynote, she brings her signature AUTHENTIC™ Method to the leadership level - showing executives, HR leaders, and association members how to lead with emotional intelligence, communicate with credibility, and deploy AI responsibly, without letting it hollow out the human judgment their people trust them for.
Audiences leave with a practical framework for turning trust into a measurable competitive advantage, not just a value statement on the wall.
For Entrepreneurs
45–60 MIN · WORKSHOP FORMAT AVAILABLE
From Artificial Intelligence to Authentic Influence: How Entrepreneurs Build Brands People Actually Trust
Every entrepreneur is being told to "use AI" - and almost no one is telling them how to do it without their brand starting to sound like everyone else's. LJ has already proven the alternative: the same AI-powered marketing strategy jrt organization personally built sold over 500 tickets in seven weeks and has grown social accounts past 10,000 new followers in a single month, more than once. In this keynote, she breaks down her signature AUTHENTIC™ Method - the nine-principle system behind those results - and shows entrepreneurs how to use AI to scale visibility and revenue without losing the brand voice that made people trust them in the first place.
Backed by a career spent inside the mechanics of human behavior, trust, and conflict - from federal discrimination investigations to litigation strategy to running a live-events company - LJ brings a rare, provable perspective: she's not theorizing about what builds trust, she's built it, sold it out, and scaled it.
Audiences leave with a clear framework for using AI as a growth engine, not a shortcut that quietly erodes the brand they've spent years building.
“If you look at my page, I post speaking events and flyers, and I rarely do any speaking or talking on my social media. But I want to. And this is really encouraging me to do so.”
Keith Stark
Keith Stark Therapy and Consulting
“LJ introduced me to trending marketing tools to bring creative design to life. I have leveled up my content and clients as a result.”
Andrea Andrews, Life Coach
Founder/CEO The Process Forum Media Group
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“Working with LJ transformed our event marketing, helping us sell out Hope Grows Here 2026, raise $5,000 for scholarships, and successfully launch my Amazon bestselling book, The Five Widows Club.”
CEO Widowhood Real Talk With Tina
Dr. Tina Fornwald
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“You know something works when you apply something and see instant results. The way she explained everything was so clear to all of us. I learned so much about how to market myself.”
James Gifford
Leadership Coach/Social Media Influencer
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