AI Enablement + Learning Strategy
I help organizations turn access to AI into confident adoption, stronger workflows, and measurable business value. My work brings together AI strategy, learning design, leader enablement, facilitation, and the human side of change.
18+ years in learning strategy • Executive MBA • MIT Sloan AI and Business Strategy • Former Michigan State University graduate instructor
The path I help teams walk
The problem I solve
Many organizations are somewhere between scattered experimentation and meaningful adoption. Employees have uneven confidence. Leaders see potential but struggle to identify the right use cases. Policies exist, but people do not always know how to apply them. Training may explain features without changing the work.
That is the gap I help close.
Employees have tools but limited direction.
Readiness discovery, role-based opportunity mapping, and responsible-use foundations.
Scope of leadership
Assess readiness, identify priority audiences and workflows, and create an actionable enablement roadmap.
Design practical learning for employees, managers, executives, and specialized functions at different levels of fluency.
Interview employees and leaders, map real tasks, and identify where AI can improve speed, quality, or capacity without replacing sound judgment.
Help leaders set expectations, support experimentation, manage risk, and reinforce new ways of working.
Translate policies into everyday decisions about confidentiality, verification, bias, accuracy, and human oversight.
Build office hours, performance support, onboarding tools, prompt and use-case libraries, communication plans, and measurement practices.
Evidence
My work begins with the real context: what people are trying to accomplish, where the friction lives, what the organization can responsibly support, and what success should look like.
Consumers Energy
October 2025 and August 2026
Two customized AI enablement experiences for distinct audiences, expanded by an internal leader recommendation.
Medical research nonprofit
Instructional design strategy, standardized templates, and hands-on capability building for a Switzerland-based medical research nonprofit.
Brighton Chamber of Commerce
March and May 2026, with a third session scheduled for September 2026
Workshops helping local business leaders move from isolated prompting tips to strategic decisions about AI use.
BAI / ProSight
Four-time webinar presenter beginning September 2024
Four webinars translating learning science into practical guidance for a regulated industry.
Uber
Multiple leadership development programs supporting approximately 700 leaders.
DePaul University
January 2011 to March 2012
Faculty enablement and vendor partnership during a phased Digication ePortfolio implementation.
How I work
Interview leaders, employees, and subject-matter experts. Understand the work, not just the requested deliverable.
I am comfortable advising leaders, facilitating a room, interviewing subject-matter experts, mapping workflows, building the learning solution, and testing the tools myself before I recommend them.
Onboarding
The exact plan should reflect the organization's strategy, technology, governance, culture, and readiness.
Founder perspective
Alongside my consulting career, I founded Whole Mama Michigan, a brick-and-mortar wellness collective serving women and families from pregnancy through postpartum. Building an organization from the ground up has deepened my understanding of leadership, operations, constrained resources, technology decisions, partnership development, communication, and the gap between an exciting strategy and what people can realistically sustain.
Credentials
In their words
Emily was our 'go-to' person for instructional design! She created and designed multiple leadership development programs for 700 leaders at Uber. She did an impeccable job understanding our needs and context, working under tight deadlines, shifting the gears when needed, and building high-quality training products ranging from in-person/virtual training to self-led resources.
I am exploring remote and flexible leadership opportunities in AI enablement, workforce readiness, learning strategy, and learning technology, with occasional travel or in-person collaboration in Southeast Michigan.