Keynotes and workshops
Story-driven sessions on responsible AI adoption inside real teams and regulated rooms. Every session starts with lived evidence and gives people something they can try.
Speaker · Educator · Builder of AI-ready teams
Design environments where people can do their best thinking, their best learning, and their best work.
I lead a global quality and training team, teach non-technical professionals to work with AI, and help leaders build teams that keep learning without them in the middle. The tools will change. The conditions are the work.
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What I do
AI enablement for teams
I help leaders create the conditions for teams to learn, test, check, and teach AI without routing every decision through one expert. Capability travels. Tools don't.
Build-based learning and community
At Women Defining AI, I design the human infrastructure behind build-based learning: programs, facilitator support, and reusable session systems that help more women build useful things with AI and carry that confidence into their work and communities. I also facilitate Women Who Rule, a leadership community for MBA women at Gies College of Business.
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Selected work
My work starts with what actually happened, then turns those lessons into something other people can use.
Team case study
A team that learned how to learn
Four analysts moved from completing 24 calls in ten days to 41 in five. One teammate reduced a 24-hour monthly process to five minutes. When the company changed platforms, the team rebuilt its tools and kept moving.
Weekly practice. Small first builds. Visible learning. Work checked before it earns trust.
Open tools
Build Your Foundry
Start with a minimum viable system for capturing lived expertise, then grow it into a deeper evidence base with expansion packs, including an AI Council grounded in your own stories and patterns.
Responsible agents
Never Drop the Thread
A relationship follow-through agent built around bounded scope, attached evidence, marked uncertainty, and human approval before any message is sent.
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Speaking
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The Team That Taught Itself AI
How a team that had never used AI taught itself, and what a leader has to build so they can.
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Never Drop the Thread: Build a Relationship Follow-Through Agent
Ninety minutes to build an agent that knows who is waiting on you, what you promised, and what should happen next.
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The Foundry Council Buildathon
Build a council of AI voices that think from your own lived expertise, then put a real decision in front of it.
Now booking for 2027. Tell me about your room
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Let's talk
A conference, a team offsite, or a first conversation about what your people could build. Start here.
lauren@laurenirving.comInspiration can start movement. The right conditions help people keep going.