Keynote speaker · Workshop facilitator · AI policy advisor Est. 2023 · Pacific Northwest

Helping teams
use AI with clarity
and confidence.

Keynotes, workshops, and policy guidance for the industries that keep the country running — built for people who want practical answers, not jargon or hype.

"Right now, someone on your team is pasting company data into ChatGPT. Do you have a plan for that?"

— Opening line, Chamber of Commerce forum on AI policy

01 — About

A senior strategy leader who understands how work actually gets done.

Elizabeth Barnes portrait

Elizabeth is a senior strategy and operations leader working inside a traditional industry — the kind of business with field crews, paper invoices, and a workforce that's rightfully skeptical of anything that sounds like a TED talk.

“The best AI conversations are the ones that start with the people who have to do the work afterward.”

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02 — Speaking

Talks designed for the people who have to make AI work.

Signature talks covering AI policy, safe adoption for administrative teams, nonprofit and clinic workshops, prompt strategy, intergenerational workforce leadership, B2B marketing, and communications team adoption. Each is built as a working session, not a lecture.

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Watch

Weekly videos, in two minutes or less.

A short video lands on LinkedIn every week alongside the long-form post. The highest-leverage ones get featured here.

Featured video YouTube channel coming soon.

In the meantime, the weekly video drops on LinkedIn.

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Audiences

Built for your industry.

Industry-specific landing pages with the talks, resources, and concerns most relevant to each audience.

Nonprofits

Grant writing, donor outreach, mission alignment, funder transparency.

Healthcare & clinics

HIPAA, source verification, free & charitable clinic operations.

HR, L&D & admin pros

Shadow AI, hiring bias, intergenerational adoption, training design.

Project Management Pros

Status reporting, decision memos, risk registers, stakeholder comms at scale. Built for PMI chapters.

Comms & marketing

Brand voice, disclosure, hallucination defense, crisis playbook.

Industrial & B2B

Energy, propane, trucking, manufacturing, utilities, ag.

Testimonials

What audiences walk away with.

From conference organizers, leadership teams, and workshop participants.

"The most practical AI seminar I've attended. So many ideas!"

Paul D. Casey
Leadership Coach, Team Builder, Author

"This was such a great presentation, actually, more like a training. I have tons of notes about AI policies…"

Laura Flores
Leadership trainer and speaker

"Thank YOU for an incredible presentation!!"

Anne Spilman
Executive Director, Leadership Tri-Cities

Writing

A weekly note from the working week.

A long-form post and video every week — on what teams are actually asking in AI workshops, failure modes worth naming, and the operational lessons from running policy work with real leadership teams. First on LinkedIn, archived here.

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03 — Resources

Free tools for teams getting started.

The AI Policy Starter Kit, the prompt framework, the Pitching AI to Your Boss planner, the nonprofit AI assistant guide, the AI training design checklist, the AI for Communications playbook, the Spot the Fake verification guide, and the Sapphire presentation package — each pulled directly from a workshop in the field.

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04 — Booking

Bring practical AI thinking to your next event.

Keynotes, workshops, executive briefings, and panels. Most engagements start with a discovery call so the session gets tailored to your audience — and end with attendees walking out with something they can use on Monday.

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Press & media kit for organizers · Full booking process