Andrea C.
11,603 min coaching
Implement AI That Actually Works | Stanford + Deloitte AI Strategy Leader
I've been advising on AI strategy and policy since 2019, using it to augment my own workflows well before most organizations were paying attention — and I've been building, deploying, and advising on it across organizations of every size ever since. The through-line in all of it has been the same: the technology is rarely the hard part. Strategy, prioritization, and change management are.
At Deloitte, I directed a $5M national AI workforce development initiative and advised a major federal department on AI strategy, presenting directly to C-suite government officials. That work gave me a ground-level understanding of how large, complex organizations actually adopt AI — the politics, the procurement hurdles, the gap between what's possible and what actually gets used.
At Stanford's Accelerator for Learning, I worked with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google for Education and Khan Academy to advance responsible GenAI implementation, coordinating across engineering, design, and business teams to translate LLM capabilities into tools people would genuinely use. I also helped organize an annual conference convening 300+ edtech leaders evaluating AI tools in the real world.
As a founder, I've lived the scrappy version too — and I want to be upfront about something that I think actually makes me more useful as a coach: I'm a non-technical founder. I built and scaled my first startup from zero to users across 80+ countries entirely with no-code tools. Now I'm building a second startup the same way. I know firsthand what's possible without a single line of code, and I'm actively going deeper — expanding my fluency in GenAI, agentic AI, no-code automation, and synthetic AI to stay at the edge of what non-technical builders can do.
I'm especially helpful to:
🎯 Org leaders evaluating which AI tools to adopt and how to build real internal buy-in — not just a pilot that dies in Q2
🏗️ Non-technical founders and operators who want to build AI-native workflows without hiring a dev team
🤖 Leaders ready to explore GenAI, agentic AI, and no-code automation but not sure where their highest-leverage entry point is
🏛️ Leaders in education, government, nonprofits, and workforce development navigating responsible AI implementation with institutional stakeholders
📋 Teams that have experimented with AI tools but haven't achieved meaningful, lasting workflow change
🌍 Professionals working across large institutional ecosystems — districts, agencies, foundations — who need an AI strategy that can actually get approved and deployed

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Works at Stanford University
$315/hr
Available Jul 31, 2026