AI strategy · Business leadership · Product development
AI transformation is a people project.
I help leaders turn AI ambition into clear decisions, useful products, and an operating model people can put into practice. I build the relationships, business rhythms, and market focus that keep the work moving.
Hey there. I’m Jessica.
An empathetic doer for the AI era.
I’m a strategist and relationship builder fascinated by how people think, relate, and build meaning together. From brand work at Bolt Threads to AI work at Slalom, I’ve spent my career helping people understand complex ideas and decide what to do next. Today, I lead Slalom’s OpenAI business unit, bringing partner strategy, market enablement, executive relationships, and solution storytelling into one focused growth engine.
I grew up in the mountains of New Mexico and live in Portland, Oregon. Outside the office, I’m an outdoor-anything enthusiast, a Moth Storytelling winner, and a sipper of fancy drinks in tiny glasses.
Selected work
Strategy that gets all the way to practice.
I connect business strategy to execution: clarifying ownership, creating operating visibility, enabling markets, and staying close enough to the work to make sure the strategy becomes useful.
Enterprise AI adoption
Making AI useful across a global consulting firm
Created an AI maturity model, coaching certification, and global peer community that helped leaders turn new tools into useful ways of working.
Operating model · Coaching · Community
GitHub Copilot adoption
Building confidence, not just access
Led a global rollout through 16+ learning sessions and 8 champion workshops, giving developers practical support and building a network of internal guides.
Learning · Champions · Feedback
Executive AI coaching
Turning seven executives into an AI leadership team
Coached C-suite and SVP leaders, created adoption scorecards with the CEO, and prototyped a Microsoft 365 Copilot agent for board-meeting preparation.
Coaching · Scorecards · Prototype
AI product development
Building an adoption engine that could outlast the engagement
As Senior Director of AI Transformation at Code and Theory, worked with Adobe’s forward-deployed engineers to shape Firefly use cases, content pipelines, and adoption activities teams could carry forward.
Product · User testing · Adoption
Ideas in public
Essays about people, technology, and the futures we choose.
Please Don’t Call on Me: What Learning to Read Late Taught Me About Learning AI
A personal story about shame, confidence, and giving people a path into AI.
Read the idea 02I Did Not Need a Better Headshot. I Needed to Be Seen.
On visibility, identity, and what it means to recognize yourself in the story you tell the world.
Read the idea 03AI Needs Us to Make Governance Sexy (Like Brand Already Is)
Why governance needs a compelling story, a clear identity, and an invitation people want to join.
Read the idea 04Showing Up Anyway: AI Anxiety, Optimistic Futures, and Sundays with Frankie
What AI anxiety taught me about parenting, courage, and choosing to participate in the future.
Read the ideaThe creative practice
Voice, observation, and a life beyond the office.
Travel writing and visual work show another side of the same skill: paying attention, finding the story, and making it memorable.
Have a complicated AI problem?
Let’s make it feel possible.
If you’re deciding where AI fits, how to bring people with you, or what to build first, I’d love to hear about it.
Email Jessica