The Payoff Discipline
Why most enterprise architecture programs fade, the three patterns behind the fade, and the recovery sequence that turns a licensed platform into a documented return.
Speaking & Workshops
Bring the argument into the room.
Andrew “Drew” Guitarte speaks to the people on the hook for the answer — chief information officers (CIOs), chief technology officers (CTOs), enterprise architects, and Architecture Review Board (ARB) members. A Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Congress speaker and adjunct professor of more than a decade, he does not deliver motivation. He delivers a framework the room can use on Monday.
Signature Talks
Six topics, one standard: the audience leaves with a method, not a mood.
Each talk scales from a conference keynote to a half-day working session. All of them bridge the same two worlds — business intent and technical reality — without condescending to either.
Rationalizing the Portfolio
A working session on the TIME framework — Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Eliminate — that ends with the room having classified real applications and drafted a business case.
Taming Wicked Problems
Complexity science for executives: why linear plans fail against wicked problems, and how agent-based thinking succeeds where decomposition cannot.
Emergent Intelligence & Agentic Governance
What it means to run an Architecture Review Board with agentic artificial intelligence (AI) support — specialized agents preparing the review so humans decide on substance.
The Pluggable Economy
A vision of the 5th Industrial Revolution: a world where every person, product, and business connects as frictionlessly as a power outlet — built on one principle, delight for all.
SAP LeanIX in Practice
For teams running the platform: how to make the repository a decision instrument instead of a shelf document — data quality, the Shelf Test, and the Value Ledger.
Formats
Sized to your room and your calendar.
- Conference keynote
- Thirty to sixty minutes for a general or executive audience — the argument, the evidence, and the call to action.
- Half- or full-day workshop
- A hands-on working session where the team applies a framework to its own portfolio and leaves with artifacts in hand.
- Executive briefing
- A focused session for the C-suite or board — the strategic case for treating enterprise architecture as a business function.
- ARB working session
- A practical design session to stand up, revive, or modernize an Architecture Review Board — including agentic AI support.
- University & association lecture
- Guest lectures and chapter talks for academic programs and professional communities — a founder’s instinct, given back.
Platforms & Affiliations
Twenty-five years on stages and in classrooms.
The speaking is not a sideline; it is how the discipline advances. Drew believes practitioners grow best from other practitioners — which is why he founds communities rather than merely joining them, and why he speaks from inside the profession, never above it.
- Speaker, Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Congress
- Adjunct Professor, Golden Gate University — more than ten years
- Founding Chairman, Business Architecture Society — a chapter-based, practitioner-to-practitioner community
- Delegate, Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations (FEAPO)
- Former Advisory Board member, Business Architecture Guild
- Published with Cutter Consortium and the Project Management Institute (PMI)
Invite the Author
Tell us your audience and your date. We will shape the talk to fit.
Conferences, leadership offsites, architecture teams, and university programs. Every talk is tailored to the room before it is delivered to it.