AI strategy & readiness
Understand where the organization is today, identify priorities, and develop a practical adoption roadmap.
Nonprofit leadership · Practical AI adoption
Helping organizations adopt AI thoughtfully, responsibly, and practically
I work with nonprofits and other small organizations that want to make better use of AI but may not have the internal time, experience, or capacity to determine what to do next.
I help leaders and staff move from individual experimentation toward thoughtful organizational adoption—combining strategy, governance, security, staff development, practical use cases, and implementation.
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A familiar starting point
AI is already entering the workplace. The harder question is what an organization should do about it.
Many staff members are already experimenting with ChatGPT, Claude, and other tools. Leaders may recognize the opportunity while still working through important questions:
- Which tools should we use?
- What information is safe to share?
- What policies do we need?
- How do we help staff learn?
- Which use cases are genuinely valuable?
- Where should we begin?
I help organizations work through those questions and develop a practical path forward.
What I help with
Practical support, shaped around your organization.
Governance, policy & security
Establish appropriate policies, data protections, tool-review practices, and responsible-use expectations.
Use cases & workflow improvement
Identify real opportunities with staff and redesign processes around useful AI capabilities.
Staff & leadership development
Build understanding and confidence through workshops, coaching, and manager-focused training.
Practical AI tools
Configure platforms and develop straightforward assistants, projects, or low-code tools where useful.
Ongoing advisory support
Provide continuing guidance as the organization learns, experiments, and builds internal capacity.
AI adoption is not primarily a software project. It is an organizational-change process.
From individual experimentation to organizational capability
Learning deliberately, and learning together.
Individual AI use can be valuable. The larger opportunity comes when organizations create the culture, policies, skills, workflows, and judgment needed to use these tools well.
That takes openness, transparency, shared learning, thoughtful experimentation, appropriate governance, and continued human responsibility.
How I workExperience behind the advice
More than 30 years helping mission-driven organizations navigate change.
30+years of nonprofit executive and technology leadership
20+years at Helen Keller Intl
20countries supported through global systems leadership
My background spans executive leadership, enterprise systems, global operations, governance, organizational transformation, staff development, and technology adoption. AI is the latest chapter in that work—not a departure from it.
Explore projects & experienceClose to home
A particular interest in Vermont organizations.
I am especially interested in helping Vermont nonprofits, community institutions, and small organizations build practical AI capacity. I am also open to appropriate engagements elsewhere.
A useful first step
Curious about what AI could mean for your organization?
You do not need to have an AI strategy already. Sometimes the most useful starting point is simply a conversation about where your organization is, what staff are already doing, and what questions leadership is trying to answer.