Hi, I'm Tess · Leading with AI.
Adopt AI in your own work · Handle concerns about AI · Think with AI to set direction
- Specialty
- Leadership
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- 50+ languages
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What Tess · Leading with AI does, every day.
Coach your managers to adopt AI in their own work, then bring their team along. Tess works from the real moments in the manager’s calendar: preparing a team meeting with the company’s approved AI tools, setting direction and objectives with AI as a thinking partner, rehearsing the tough question “Is AI going to replace us?” in a voice role play. Built on your AI policy, approved tools and leadership model. Tess never evaluates team members.
A focused bench of skills.
- 01Adopt AI in your own work
- 02Handle concerns about AI
- 03Think with AI to set direction
- 04Set the frame with your team
- 05Redesign work with your team
- 06Make experimenting safe
- 07Help each person progress
Where Tess · Leading with AI shows up.
- A manager preparing Monday’s team meeting with the company’s approved AI tools.
- A manager setting the team’s direction and objectives with AI as a thinking partner.
- A manager rehearsing “Is AI going to replace us?” before the team asks it.
Teams served, outcomes moved.
Any people manager, from team leads to leaders of managers, whose team is starting or scaling its use of AI. Each manager progresses at their own pace, whatever their level with AI.
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