Speaking & Events

Pitched Creasti to a panel of investors, entrepreneurs, and faculty. Awarded the Impact Award for social innovation.

Semifinalist in the national ethics case competition, analyzing complex business ethics scenarios.

Presented Creasti at CSU Strata Demo Day, a startup showcase focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, and venture development at Colorado State University. Creasti was presented as a behavioral savings app designed to turn financial goals into daily habits through streaks, AI coaching, family accountability circles, reminders, and gamified progress. The presentation positioned Creasti as “the Duolingo of Saving Money,” highlighting the problem of financial stress, paycheck-to-paycheck living, and low retention in traditional finance apps. The pitch emphasized Creasti’s behavioral science foundation, including loss aversion, habit loops, social accountability, and personalized AI coaching with memory. At the event, Creasti received the “Excellence in Social Innovation” award, recognizing its potential to help individuals and families build stronger financial habits, improve financial confidence, and create a more accessible path to saving.

Served as facilitator for a training module on “Introduction to Entrepreneurship” for approximately 50 high school teachers and members of Anseye Pou Ayiti’s “Sitwayen-Lidè” program in Mirebalais, Haiti. Delivered on behalf of PiGRAN CSE (Business Services Center) and ISTEAH, the session introduced participants to core entrepreneurship concepts, opportunity identification, business idea development, and the role of entrepreneurial thinking in community development and educational leadership.

Presented Creasti at the Colorado State University Graduate Student Showcase, introducing the app as a behavioral savings platform designed to make saving money simple, social, and rewarding. The presentation explained why many people struggle to save consistently, including emergency savings gaps, the difficulty of building financial habits alone, and the limitations of traditional finance apps that track money without changing behavior. Creasti was presented as a solution that combines gamified savings challenges, family and friend collaboration, an AI savings coach, receipt-based insights, streaks, badges, and shared goals. The showcase presentation highlighted Creasti’s impact and differentiation through behavioral science, social motivation, and AI-powered financial guidance. It also presented the app’s long-term vision: a world where saving feels effortless, families build financial confidence, children learn money skills early, and anyone can develop strong financial habits.

Facilitated discussions on business ethics, corporate responsibility, and stakeholder management for 100+ undergraduate students.

Delivered a French-language presentation titled “Ce qu’il faut pour mettre le Nord en chantier,” focused on the strategic conditions required to place Haiti’s Grand Nord on a long-term path of development, investment, and institutional transformation. The presentation proposed a three-step framework for regional development: first, assessing the current state of the North and defining the desired long-term future; second, identifying the collective attitudes and behaviors required from public, private, civic, and community actors; and third, adopting a holistic approach capable of coordinating interventions across sectors. The presentation highlighted the North’s strategic assets, including natural resources, beaches, historical sites, cultural identity, cuisine, and artistic heritage, while also addressing major constraints such as informal urbanization, weak land-use planning, poor waste management, limited basic infrastructure, insecurity, and vulnerability to natural disasters. A central message of the presentation was that isolated and fragmented actions are not enough. Sustainable transformation requires a shared vision, coordinated planning, patriotic entrepreneurship, human-centered leadership, and a practical framework that helps local, national, and international actors align around priority development areas. The presentation concluded with a call for greater ambition, collective responsibility, and patriotic commitment to build a stronger and more prosperous Northern Haiti.

Taught undergraduate and graduate courses in financial accounting, management, organizational behavior, and financial mathematics across ISTEAH, UEH, UNDH, and UPNCH.