About Lead with AI

People-Centric AI Transformation, Guided by Humans

Lead with AI is a people-centric AI transformation partner helping organizations build real capability across strategy, skills, operations, and governance.

Our executive programs blend short, mobile-first learning with hands-on workshops, expert coaching, and real-world implementation. Leaders don’t just learn AI but deploy AI inside their workflows, teams, and culture to increase their Impact per Hour.

The impact so far

Lead with AI is already helping thousands of leaders move from AI curiosity to real impact.

2023
First Lead with AI Executive Boot Camp cohort
2,000+
Leaders trained through our boot camps and workshops
30,000+
Leaders who receive our AI newsletter updates twice a week
200+
Playbooks, lessons, and templates available on demand
Our team

The team behind Lead with AI

We’re a small, remote, team obsessed with one question: how can AI make work better, not just faster?

Our backgrounds span future-of-work research, executive education, AI adoption, and product design, all focused on helping leaders build AI-ready, people-first organizations by guiding people-centric AI transformation.

Catherine Shanshurova
Founding Account Executive

Catherine partners with corporate leaders to guide them through bespoke, human-centric AI enablement programs that deliver practical, real-world results. With her vast experience in tech and complex corporate enterprise solutions, she ensures that Lead with AI’s programs directly align with the evolving needs of today’s executives.

Daan van Rossum
Founder & CEO, Lead with AI

Daan founded Lead with AI because he saw both the opportunity and thread of AI in the workplace toward a happier future of work. He's a LinkedIn Top Voice 2026 and was featured in HBR, NYT, CNBC, and more.

Feeona Espiritu
Impact Operations Lead

From CRM to MCP, Feeona makes things work so our Impact Engineers and Assistants can make the biggest possible impact with every hour they spend on their cohorts.

Gary C. Tate
Chief AI Officer

Gary leads two critical pillars at Lead with AI: product and internal AI transformation. He also delivers monthly executive briefings and teaches a course on Agentic AI.

Henrik Järleskog
Co-founder & Managing Director, Europe

Henrik is Co‑founder & Managing Director, Europe at Lead with AI, where he partners with senior executives and enterprises to turn AI from hype into everyday practice. Before joining, he worked as a Fortune 500 VP in EY and Sodexo.

Jen Tran
Course Content Producer

Jen is the mastermind behind Lead with AI's ever-expanding library of video course content. She mastered Claude Code to move our production from manual editing to conversational, but stay firmly in the lead of the final outputs.

Jonah Levey
Co‑founder & Director

Jonah is Co‑founder & Director at Lead with AI, bringing over two decades of experience building companies at the intersection of talent, technology, and the future of work.

Katina Dell'Acqua-Lubich
Chief Operations and Finance Officer

Katina leads Operations and Finance for Lead with AI, with a focus on scaling our human-centric approach to AI transformation to even more leaders and companies.

Kirstin Austin
Impact Partner

Kirstin Austin (ex Chief Learning Officer, IRS) serves as a senior, trusted partner to select clients. She works with sponsors to define success, monitor progress, gather honest feedback, diagnose barriers, and shape the next stage of their AI transformation.

Linn Tran
Learner Impact Assistant

Linn makes the promise of human-guided AI transformation a reality. She 'leaves no learner behind' on their way to AI fluency with daily support and encouragement for each leader in our programs.

Mia Tran
Editor

Mia co-writes the Lead with AI Friday newsletter, transforming insights into action-oriented briefings for busy senior leaders who want to stay ahead of AI.

Pawel Gorski
Co-founder, Chief Growth Officer

Pawel leads growth at Lead with AI, while also driving the company's internal AI transformation and helping others do the same in public and private training programs. Before joining Lead with AI, Pawel was the CEO of Tribee AI.

Phil Kirschner
Transformation Partner

Phil is an ex-McKinsey, WeWork, JLL, Credit Suisse future of work expert delivering strategic transformation projects for Lead with AI clients.

Saraswati N
Community Manager

Saras manages the Lead with AI PRO community, with the daunting task to keep over 500 global leaders up to speed on AI through daily connection and weekly live sessions.

Wendy Ng
Program Manager

Wendy manages multiple live programs for Lead with AI, including the flagship AI Leader Advanced course and private cohorts for leading global companies.