Services

How I Work With Clients

I work primarily with leadership teams at organizations navigating AI adoption — where the mandate exists but the alignment, culture, and change infrastructure haven't caught up. I also work selectively with marketing and communications leaders and AI-driven startups.

For Business Leaders

AI Doesn’t Expose Technical Gaps. It Exposes Leadership Gaps.

AI moves fast — and expectations move even faster. Boards are pushing for productivity gains. Teams are experimenting without guardrails. Executives are signaling urgency without clarifying tradeoffs. In that environment, culture shifts quietly, credibility weakens, and behavior drifts. The risk isn’t the technology — it’s what leaders tolerate, reward, and communicate under pressure.

What I Help You Do

I work with senior leaders to:

  • Set clear and achievable AI goals

  • Surface hidden misalignment before it becomes organizational friction

  • Build compelling AI leadership narratives that strengthen trust and credibility

  • Enable their managers to lead through change

  • Model the leadership behaviors required for sustainable adoption

 

This is work at the level of culture, incentives, and trust — not surface messaging.

How We Work Together:

Every organization enters this work from a different place. We begin by assessing where alignment, behavior, and credibility are strongest — and where they’re most at risk — then design the engagement around your specific context and goals.

 

Common engagement models include:

  • AI Readiness Assessments

  • Leadership Alignment Workshops

  • Manager and team enablement 

  • Leadership peer advisory cohorts (currently facilitating through Starboard Collectives)

  • Ongoing advisory retainer

Starboard Collectives

Now Facilitating: Starboard Collectives AI Leadership Cohort A peer cohort program for senior leaders navigating AI strategy and adoption. Learn more →

For Marketing & Communications Leaders

You’re being asked to move faster, produce more, and “use AI to scale” — without eroding trust, flattening executive voice, or losing strategic influence.

What I Help You Do

I work with marketing and communications leaders to:

  • Protect credibility and authenticity as AI reshapes content creation

  • Align messaging with actual capability

  • Navigate cross-functional dynamics around AI

  • Equip managers and teams to communicate clearly in moments of change

For AI-Driven Startups

Strong technology is no longer enough. In a market saturated with AI claims, credibility is earned — not assumed.

What I Help You Do

B2B AI startups face a trust and attention crisis. The startups that win aren't the ones with the most content. They're the ones with the most credible proof.

 

I offer AI-driven startups a system to:

  • Turn innovation into credible customer proof

  • Build narrative architecture grounded in real outcomes

  • Develop earned momentum without hype