AI Transformation Advising

AI transformation, led by someone who has actually built and shipped it

Inventor on a US AI patent. Founder of a machine-learning platform sold to universities. Twenty-five years of senior leadership across analytics, ML, IoT, and cybersecurity — and today, driving cross-functional AI transformation across an entire organization. Most "AI advisors" can only do one of these. I do them all — and I coach the people side of the change.

The challenge

Every C-suite needs an AI strategy. Few have one that survives contact with the org.

Boards are asking for an AI strategy. Vendors are pitching a dozen of them. And most transformation efforts stall not because the technology is wrong, but because the organization wasn't ready — leadership wasn't aligned, teams weren't equipped, and the change wasn't led.

I bring something genuinely rare to that problem: deep, hands-on AI engineering credentials paired with iPEC-certified executive coaching. I can architect the roadmap and coach the leaders who have to carry it. That combination is the difference between an AI initiative that ships and one that becomes a slide in next year's strategy offsite.

Executive team reviewing an AI strategy on a wall display in a modern conference room
Built it before I advised on it

Four proof points

AI advising is a crowded field. These are the receipts.

Named inventor, US patent

Inventor on US Patent 2025/0384341 A1 — Methods and Systems for Training Artificial Intelligence Models. Not just deploying AI; contributing to how it gets built.

Creator, ioModel

Built and sold ioModel, a point-and-click machine-learning platform, to universities for higher-ed and medical research — sunset in the LLM era after shipping real value to real customers.

Senior Director, Analytics & ML

Led the Analytics and Machine Learning engineering organization at McGraw-Hill Education — applying ML at enterprise scale across product, content, and learner-outcome data.

Cross-functional AI rollout

Currently driving AI transformation across Sales, Marketing, Revenue, Operations, Customer Success, and Engineering at LifeRaft Labs — an open-source threat-intelligence platform for physical security teams.

How we can work together

Engagement options

Tailored to where you are — from "we don't have a strategy yet" to "the rollout is underway and something isn't sticking."

Assessment

AI Readiness & Opportunity Assessment

A structured review of where AI can create real value in your business — and where it can't yet. Honest, technically grounded, free of vendor pitch. Delivers a prioritized opportunity map and a clear-eyed view of organizational readiness.

Strategy

AI Strategy & Roadmap

A practical 12–18-month roadmap covering use-case selection, build-vs-buy, data foundations, governance, and the team and budget shape required to execute. Designed to brief a board and survive contact with engineering.

Ongoing

Transformation Advising

Hands-on advising through the messy middle — across Sales, Marketing, Revenue, Operations, Customer Success, and Engineering. Tactical guidance for program leads, executive coaching for the leadership team driving the change.

Workshop · 1 day

AI Literacy for Leadership Teams

A focused, jargon-free session for executive teams and boards. What today's AI can and can't do, where it's headed, and the questions every leader should be asking of their organization — so the C-suite can lead the conversation rather than be led by it.

A leader in conversation with a team member during a coaching session
Why this is different

Most AI initiatives don't fail on the tech. They fail on the people.

Plenty of consultants can write you an AI strategy. Plenty of coaches can support your leadership team. Almost nobody does both — and that gap is where most AI transformations die.

I'm an iPEC-certified Professional Coach and ICF member with twenty-five years of technology leadership behind me. That means I can architect the roadmap and coach the executive who has to convince the board, the VP who has to re-skill her team, and the engineering lead whose roadmap just got reshuffled.

That's the moat. And it's why AI transformation engagements with me tend to ship.

Frequently asked

Common questions

An AI transformation advisor helps leadership teams assess where AI creates real business value, design a credible strategy and roadmap, and lead the cross-functional organizational change required to ship it. The work spans technical architecture, change management, and executive coaching for the leaders carrying the rollout.

When the board is asking for an AI strategy, when initial AI experiments aren't translating to business outcomes, when leadership disagrees on priorities, or when the technical and people sides of a rollout need to be coordinated. Earlier is cheaper than mid-rollout.

A consultant typically delivers a deliverable — a strategy document, a model, a system. A transformation advisor delivers organizational change: strategy plus coaching, advising executives and program leads through the messy middle until AI is actually adopted and producing value.

Yes. Engagements range from a focused AI Readiness and Opportunity Assessment, to a 12–18-month Strategy and Roadmap engagement, to ongoing fractional Transformation Advising across functions, to one-day AI Literacy workshops for leadership teams and boards.

Where is AI on your strategy?

Tell me where you are — exploring, planning, or mid-rollout — and let's map a forward path that actually ships.

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