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Four engagement formats. One question.

Where is shared meaning breaking down in your team's relationship with AI, and what does the team need to keep doing the work well? The briefing opens the conversation. The diagnostic finds the answer. The workshop installs the response. The retainer keeps everything current as the tools change.

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What I'm working from

A framework for shared meaning under pressure.

The engagements draw from a working framework on meaning repair, currently in development for journal submission. It synthesizes research across eight academic disciplines, including conversation analysis, team cognition, psychological safety, high-reliability organizations, and sensemaking, into four phases: drift, suppression, repair activation, and outcome.

The premise is straightforward. Teams don't usually fail because they lack information. They fail because key terms quietly mean different things to different people, and the gap stays hidden until something breaks. The framework gives leaders a way to detect those gaps early, surface them safely, and install practices that keep shared understanding intact as the work moves.

AI accelerates everything the framework addresses. New tools arrive faster than the language to talk about them. Teams adopt AI features without agreeing on what they mean. Governance documents get written in terms whose definitions drift between author and reader. Every engagement below applies the framework to a specific decision your team is facing.

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01

Executive Brief on Meaning Repair Under AI Pressure

From $3,500
1–2 hours · Remote · Single session for senior team

What you get

A focused briefing for senior leadership on how meaning drift is showing up in your organization's relationship with AI, and what the evidence says about closing the gap. Built from a 30-minute discovery call and shaped to your context.

What's in the briefing

  • Pre-call: 30-minute discovery to surface the specific drift patterns inside your organization
  • Customized 60–90 minute presentation on meaning drift in your context, with examples drawn from your industry and team
  • Audience Q&A and live discussion of the highest-priority repair moves for your team
  • Executive action checklist: three specific moves your leadership can install in the next 30 days
  • Optional follow-up: a 30-minute call two weeks later to walk through what landed

Best for

Senior teams who want to understand the framework before committing to a longer engagement. Cabinet-level leadership groups, board working sessions, and senior staff retreats. Often serves as the entry point to the diagnostic or workshop.

02

AI Readiness Diagnostic & Executive Briefing

From $7,500
4–6 weeks · Remote · Closes with 90-min briefing

What you get

A structured assessment of your organization's current AI exposure, governance posture, and team readiness. The deliverable is a scored diagnostic report and a 90-minute leadership briefing that names what to do first, what to slow down, and what to stop.

What's in the diagnostic

  • Stakeholder interviews with five to eight leaders across affected functions
  • Current-state map of AI tools already in use, sanctioned and unsanctioned
  • Governance assessment against current research on AI policy in education and workforce systems
  • Team meaning-risk profile: where shared language is breaking down on the AI conversation
  • Three-tier recommendation set: immediate moves, 90-day moves, and 12-month moves

Best for

Organizations that have already started using AI tools but have not yet held the leadership conversation about what is working, what is risky, and what to do about it. K–12 districts, community colleges, workforce development boards, and education-affiliated nonprofits.

03

AI Readiness Workshop for Senior Leaders

From $5,000
Half-day, full-day, or 10-week pilot · On-site or remote

What you get

A scenario-based facilitated workshop for the senior team or leadership cohort that has to make the AI calls. Built around a working framework drawn from team coordination research and four years of fieldwork on AI integration in high-stakes environments.

How the workshop runs

  • Pre-work: a short readiness questionnaire and three readings, sized to the audience
  • Half-day: the framework, three working scenarios, a team self-assessment, and one repair protocol your team can install on Monday
  • Full-day: everything in the half-day plus three additional scenarios, a worldview-mapping exercise, and a written commitment artifact each leader takes home
  • 10-week team pilot: an extended format for organizations ready to embed the practice across an entire team, with baseline measurement and 30-day behavior tracking
  • Follow-up: a 30-minute call two weeks later to walk through what landed and what stalled

Best for

Leadership teams of seven to twenty people preparing to make AI policy or rollout decisions in the next 90 days. School boards, college cabinets, workforce-board executive committees, philanthropy leadership teams, and senior staff at education nonprofits.

04

Fractional AI Readiness Advisor

$4,000–6,000 / month
3–6 month engagement · Remote · Standing relationship

What you get

A standing senior advisor for AI strategy, governance, and team readiness, available throughout a defined engagement window. The role gives mid-size organizations the senior thinking they need without the cost or time of a full-time hire.

What's included monthly

  • Two 60-minute strategy sessions with the executive sponsor
  • Up to four office-hour calls per month for any team member who needs senior input
  • Async review of policies, communications, and rollout plans
  • One short written brief per month on a current AI development relevant to your organization
  • Monthly portfolio review against your AI readiness goals

Best for

Organizations with 100 to 1,000 staff that have AI moving across multiple functions and need a coordinating voice that is not internal. Mid-size school districts, community college systems, regional workforce boards, and growing education nonprofits.

How we start

Every engagement begins with a 30-minute call.

The call is free, confidential, and not a sales pitch. You walk me through what is happening inside your organization. I tell you what I see, what I would do first, and which engagement format fits — if any does. If the work is not a fit for me, I will say so and point you to better options.

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