THE HUMAN SIDE
OF AI
TRANSFORMATION
Navigating the AI wilderness?
Most nonprofits are moving, but without a clear path. A 2025 TechSoup report found that only 24% have a formal AI strategy.
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If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Many teams are experimenting with tools and small projects that feel like progress, but movement and progress are not the same thing.
Dabbling is movement.
Intentional, aligned experimentation is movement with direction, and that is progress.
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Progress looks like this: knowing where AI already lives in your organization, surfacing the good, the risky, and the messy. Designing pilots that include ethics, measurement, and learning. Feeding those lessons into your strategy and policy so next steps are smarter than last steps.
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If your organization does not yet have that clarity, start here: Spark & Signal’s AI Workshop Series.
Two fast, practical, hands-on sessions that take you from uncertainty to a confident, purposeful path, grounded in your mission, reflective of your people, and filled with tangible, ready-to-use takeaways.
In short, a map out of the wilderness, built for your nonprofit.
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I help you move from confusion to clarity, from reaction to direction.
As your trusted guide and mapmaker, I focus on the human side of digital and AI transformation: the people, processes, and culture that make change stick.
Because the pace of change is the pace of trust.
CHARTING THE PATH
What I Do:
I’m a trusted guide helping nonprofit leaders make smart, human-centred decisions about AI strategy and digital change, bridging the gap between vision, overwhelm, and real world impact.
How I Do It:
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With over two decades in the sector, I guide teams through collaborative strategy development, facilitated alignment, and decision-making frameworks that actually stick. I help leadership, boards, and staff move together — toward clarity, alignment, and meaningful progress.
Why It Matters:
Because AI is transforming how we work, communicate, and create impact. The organizations that meet it with strategy, empathy, and intention are the ones that will shape what comes next.
SERVICES SNAPSHOT
There’s a Spark & Signal service to meet you where you are and move you forward with clarity, confidence, and intention.
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Spark Sessions
Not sure? Spark Sessions are 2 hr focused consults, designed to help you get oriented so you navigate with confidence.
Includes a 60 min working session, and pre- and post- communications for discovery and ongoing momentum.​
Who it’s for: are you unsure about something? Where to start or where to go next? Book this for a limited investment with guidance you can trust.
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AI Readiness Partnership​
In collaboration with a trusted partner for technical and implementation work. This partnership (6–8 wks) is a comprehensive package that includes the human and the technical aspects of strategic AI for nonprofits, from review to adoption to implementation to training.
We'll align leadership, build shared language, audit and review your digital / AI stack, create a practical roadmap for adoption, and lead on implementation and training.
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AI Workshops & Intensives
The Start Safe. Scale Smart. workshop series.
Finally! The practical workshop series nonprofits need. You’ll leave with a guide, a plan, alignment and confidence.
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1. AI Foundations for Nonprofits (2.5 hrs)
For teams who know AI is already showing up in their work, but want structure, language, and guardrails to use it well.
2. AI Strategy & Integration (3 hrs)
For teams already experimenting with AI but looking to make it scalable, intentional, and aligned with their mission.
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In addition to this series, we love creating custom workshops and trainings.
Reduced fall rate available for the workshop series for fall 2025.
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AI Strategy Sprint
A compact engagement (10 hrs) to move from scattered experiments to a clear, near-term plan. You’ll leave with a 90-day action plan, a leadership brief, a policy starter kit, a decision and measurement matrix, plus more one-pagers and cheat sheets.
Who it's for: nonprofits ready to harness digital tools and AI but needing guidance to bridge the gap between vision and action.
Navigating a Paradigm Shift
​You're not allergic to change or scared of new technology.
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You have a lot on the line (as you always have). Even more on your plate. You face constant scrutiny. You grapple with insecure funding, or have a culture that may struggle to make strategic decisions with such uncertainty.
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The message? ​'You can't afford to fail'.
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In the face of all of this, we're navigating with a paradigm shift. Digital transformation and AI literacy are no longer optional; they’re essential. ​(continued)
Hi, welcome, get to know me...
I’ve spent the last 21+ years in the nonprofit trenches, back when “digital transformation” was something people still said with air quotes (and em dashes were just…punctuation).
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I'm a trusted mapmaker for organizations navigating AI disruption and digital complexity. I help leaders and teams find their way from overwhelm to confidence through future-focused strategy, immersive convenings, and facilitation that actually works for nonprofits (not just tech companies pretending they understand our world).
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My approach blends emotional intelligence, neuroscience, and systems thinking with two decades of getting my hands dirty in the beautiful mess of social change work, notably focusing on digital fundraising, campaigning et al from a strategic lens. I bring lived experience to creating inclusive spaces where diverse minds can think clearly together.
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I carve out clarity through strategic consultations, digital coaching, facilitations, and AI leadership intensives that spark alignment, signal paths forward, and help organizations fulfill their missions without losing their souls. Or minds.
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Let's get real, get focused, and get moving, together.​​
My Values
My AI Use Disclaimer
Technology is not neutral. It’s shaped by power, and it shapes our future. I believe nonprofits have an imperative, and a right, to participate and to shape it wisely.
My work is grounded in equity, justice, and collective care. Let’s use tech to serve people, not the other way around.
I use AI tools to help organize ideas or streamline drafts. Sometimes a fair amount, sometimes less, sometimes not at all. Mostly Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, some Notebook LM. It depends on the task, my focus level, time I have and experience doing that task. However, every single word -- and work -- starts with me, is reviewed and refined by me, and ends with me. I'm a tinkerer (and over-thinker) so it's both my nature and by design that I read, re-read, tweak, edit and ensure anything I post/share/create really is mine.
As a nonprofit sector professional, integrity and honesty matter. I follow an inner compass rooted in clear and human-first communication, purposeful disclosure, and trust with accountability.
When AI plays a primary or meaningful role in content creation, I’ll note it. The voice and values are always mine.