I build growth into
the DNA of your business.
Permanently.
Closed $100M+ in sales. Built and sold multiple companies. Delivered keynotes in 17 countries. Wrote the books others assigned as required reading. Now I embed inside executive teams and build the systems, the mindsets, and the culture for Always-On Growth — and right now, AI is the most powerful lever in that system.
The wiring behind
how Chris builds growth
Always-On Growth isn’t a framework imposed from outside — it emerges from the inside out. These are the five innate strengths Chris brings into every engagement, every keynote, every transformation. They’re not a methodology. They’re the reason it works.
CliftonStrengths® is a registered trademark of Gallup, Inc. Assessment completed 2019.
I won’t show up
with answers.
Answers pollute the learning.
The past is not a predictor of your future success — not anymore. The game changed. The instincts that built your company are now the instincts slowing it down. I’m not here to confirm what you already think. I’m here to help you find what you can’t see yet.
I’ll cure you of the addiction to being right.
Every leader I work with is hooked on it. Showing up with answers feels like leadership. It’s actually a ceiling. I run teams through a detox that breaks the habit — quietly, and permanently. When the answers stop leading the room, the real work begins.
My job is to eliminate the froth. Not pile on.
I’m not going to give you a longer to-do list. I’m going to cut it. The meetings, the initiatives, the performative motion that substitutes for actual progress. Strip it out. What’s left is the work that only your team can do.
Stop optimizing to not fail. Take more attempts.
The teams that win are the ones that attempted the most. Perfection is a myth — it always was. But now holding out for perfect isn’t just inefficient, it’s fatal. Take the shot. Learn. Adjust. Take another. That is the only loop that works when the rate of change is this high.
Every organization has one thing only they can do.
Most can’t see it — too close, too distracted by what the competition is doing. My job is to help you find it. Once we find it, you stop spreading thin and start investing asymmetrically in the one capability that is impossible to replicate. Technology built from the inside out, not imposed from the outside in.
Both. Simultaneously. Non-negotiable.
People don’t take risks inside organizations because the personal cost of failure is too high. Fix that culture. Extreme ownership means your team owns the outcome fully. Extreme permission means they’re actually allowed to chase it. One without the other is theater.
What problem do you actually solve?
Not the one on your website. The absolute, commercial-truth version — the one your best client actually pays for. If you can’t say it in one sentence, you don’t know what to build. And if you don’t know what to build, the AI systems we create together will accelerate you in the wrong direction.
“I will push you to experiment, discover, and learn. This is radically different from what you’re used to — because the world is changing radically. The rate of change is high. Past precedent is not your best compass anymore. More experiments. More partners. More shots on goal. That is how you win.”
Built it.
Sold it.
Now building it inside yours.
Chris Dessi is not a consultant who studied AI. He’s an operator who built Silverback Social, sold it, went on to become CRO at Diamond Standard, VP Americas at Productsup (acquired by Buddy Media, sold to Salesforce for $1B), and has spent the last 15 years showing up on national television explaining where technology is actually headed.
He founded Torque AI because he was exhausted watching smart companies stall out on AI adoption — not from lack of tools, but from lack of a real system. Torque is the 90-day implementation partner for executive teams who are done debating and ready to build.
He also produces and hosts AI Summit NYC and is a Founding Partner of the NY AI Alliance. He holds an Executive Certificate from MIT Sloan, an MS from NYU, and a BA in Psychology from Loyola — which, in retrospect, explains the empathy.
7 books.
Two hit #1 on Amazon.
The books came before the keynotes, before the TV appearances, before Torque. They’re the reason people in the room already trust Chris before he says a word.
See the catalyst in action.
17 countries.
One consistent outcome.
The stuff worth reading
Most small and mid-size businesses are treating AI like a magic button. They’re not falling behind because of lack of tools — they’re falling behind because they haven’t fixed the real bottleneck: themselves. Here’s the 2-step framework I’ve been teaching to audiences in 17 countries.
The receipts
Chris has a unique ability to make complex AI concepts feel immediately actionable. Our team left the session with real tools deployed — not a deck to review.
I’ve seen a lot of AI keynotes. Most are hype. Chris walks in with operator credibility — he’s closed deals, run teams, and built companies. The room felt it immediately.
Within 90 days of working with Chris, our marketing team cut content production time in half and 3x’d output. This is what AI adoption actually looks like when done right.
Ready to stop talking
and start building?
Whether you’re booking Chris to speak, exploring Torque AI for your organization, or just want to have an honest conversation about where AI fits — this is how you start.
info@torqueapp.ai“One fifteen-minute meeting with Chris made me millions.”