AI Alignment Accelerator

Experience a faster, clearer way to make AI decisions,

without overbuilding or overcommitting.

If everything is a pilot, nothing is a strategy. We help leadership teams replace weeks of circular meetings with clear decisions, prioritized shortlists, and safe-to-try guardrails in just days.

What it is

  • Leaders begin by experiencing our AI-enhanced decision-making methodology and how it's adapted for team working sessions.

  • Advance to our 3-pillar leadership-team series designed to create shared clarity and accelerate decisions on AI direction.

  • Each workshop sets the foundations for advancing AI adoption and a roadmap to coordinate your next steps.

  • We specialize in guiding your team through the messy front end. This keeps the process vendor-neutral and trust-based.

What's In It For You?

Click on your role to learn more

COO: Protect operational reliability while deciding your next AI move.

Before AI breaks your workflows, align on where to start. The core tension you face is balancing operational reliability against the intense hype of AI. In our Workflow Automation workshop, we focus strictly on low-risk, immediate return operational wins. Start small, learn fast, build momentum. We replace the noise of 'what AI could theoretically do' with a prioritized shortlist of safe-to-try interventions.

The Workshop Outputs You Are Interested In:

• Ranked shortlist of cross-functional systems to focus on

• Safety guardrails that protect current delivery

• Clear decision criteria (ROI vs Feasibility)

• A defined 30-day action plan

CIO / CTO: Bring shadow AI into the light - before it becomes an incident.

The tech isn't the bottleneck - misalignment is. You are stuck playing defense while business units launch rogue pilots, creating shadow AI risks. In the Governance Guardrails workshop, we facilitate the hard conversations between IT and the business to establish Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) that allows the organization to move fast, safely.

The Workshop Outputs You Are Interested In:

• Alignment on what is allowed vs. restricted

• Framework for addressing shadow AI

• Security and architecture risk mitigation plan

• Foundation for an AI Governance Council

CFO: Make AI investment decisions you can actually defend.

No demos. No hype. Just AI that pays rent. You need to prevent budget leaks on pilots that never scale and vendors that don't stick. In the accelerator, we implement rigorous scoring mechanisms to translate raw AI ideas into testable value hypotheses, ensuring your AI initiatives become a managed portfolio.

The Workshop Outputs You Are Interested In:

• Vendor-neutral requirements framework

• Scoring frameworks before spending discussions

• Value vs. Feasibility mapping

• Cost-to-serve reduction metrics

CHRO: Build AI adoption that people actually trust.

Turn employee anxiety into organizational capability. AI adoption fails when people avoid it out of fear or use it secretly. We help your leadership team align on AI readiness from a people perspective. We focus on upskilling, clear communication, and establishing psychological safety.

The Workshop Outputs You Are Interested In:

• People-centric readiness snapshot

• Guidelines that protect employee dignity

• Skills gap identification

• Change management foundations

Revenue Leader (GM/Sales): Choose the next AI move that drives revenue.

Pick the play. Ship the value. Competitors are shipping while your teams are debating. We map the system workflows, find the highest-friction moments, and rank AI opportunities specifically designed to improve speed-to-close, increase pipeline velocity, and enhance process outcomes.

The Workshop Outputs You Are Interested In:

• System workflow opportunity mapping

• 1-2 prioritized non-customer facing opportunities (learn from internal ops projects first)

• Clear owner assignment and metrics

• Faster decisions with fewer handoff failures

Leading with AI Workshop

Duration: 2 Hours   Format: In-Person or Virtual   Audience: Senior Leaders

   Description: An engaging, experiential session that demystifies how AI can be used to accelerate and improve the quality of each phase of the decision-making process, and prepares you for the alignment journey ahead.

Cost: $249 per person (fee reimbursed if you proceed with Alignment Accelerator workshops)

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Leadership Alignment Accelerator Workshops

Duration: 3 Hours Each     Format: In-Person or Virtual Audience: Leadership Teams (4-8)

    Description: Our core series is designed to accelerate decisions. Replaces weeks of circular meetings with structured, facilitated alignment across three critical pillars.

Cost: Sliding scale structure based on company size (package discounts for all 3 workshops)

AI Readiness

Align on where are you REALLY are today

·       A people-centered focus on establishing a baseline of current company capabilities & constraints culminating in a plan to move forward.

Workshop Outputs:

  • Prioritized set of constraints & gaps to focus on

  • AI Readiness scorecard (people, support & culture)

  • Roadmap for aligning capabilities to AI strategies

AI Automation

Align on where to focus your time & energy

A high-level assessment of cross-functional systems to identify where AI automation can best generate ROI improvements from the start.

Workshop Outputs:

  • System-level AI opportunities assessment

  • Criteria for evaluating ROI impact potential

  • Roadmap to identify specific AI project investments

AI Governance

Set essential guardrails to guide AI use today

Establish a practical approach to managing AI use that balances speed and risk by clarifying key controls, responsibilities and review processes.

Workshop Outputs:

  • Prioritized set of guardrails for near-term use cases

  • System framework for current and evolving needs

  • Roadmap for establishing an AI governance system

Additional Workshop Offerings

We facilitate decisions, not just discussion.

 We prioritize operational readiness over vendor hype.

We remain strictly vendor-neutral, but can help with that selection process.

Trust is our
operating system

  • Proven approach with Fortune 500 companies

  • Human-first design; transparent data use

  • Governance & ethics embedded at every step

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Testimonies

I had the opportunity to participate in Jeff Richardson’s two-part co-learning lab on the Future of Partnerships, and it was one of the most thoughtfully designed, practitioner-level sessions I’ve attended.

Jeff brings a rare combination of strong facilitation, systems thinking, and human-centered AI design. He didn’t treat AI as a novelty or shortcut, but as a disciplined collaborator—using it to organize large volumes of participant input, surface patterns, and accelerate sense-making without replacing human judgment.

Across both sessions, Jeff guided a diverse group through real partnership challenges using Mural as a shared workspace, clear problem framing (“How might we…”), structured prioritization, and collaborative decision-making. The result was not just discussion, but a concrete solution concept for an AI-enabled partnership starter system focused on trust, equity, and accountability from day one.

If you’re looking for someone who understands how to design AI-supported workflows that strengthen collaboration rather than dilute it, Jeff is the real deal. - Anita Pamplin, Operations Analyst

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