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Lead with Confidence in the Age of AI

For educational leaders and consultants who want more than tools. You want purpose, judgment, and human-centered AI practice.

Build your own AI fluency. Draw the line. Lead the learning.

The Path Forward

Whether you’re a school building policy and practice, or a consultant preparing to guide them... here’s where you start.

School Leaders

✅ Problem:  You’re under pressure to integrate AI but you don’t (yet) have the policy, frameworks, or internal fluency.
 

✅ Path: We start with a customized leader workshop → 30-day guided leadership practice → year-long BlackBelt governance & rollout.

 

✅ Outcome: Clarity replaces caution. Your teachers learn from your example, not your memos.

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Speaking + Media

Bring The PATH from EI to AI™ to your stage or podcast.  


Mary translates complex ideas into practical language that helps leaders move from hesitation to action.

✅ Keynotes & Panels  
✅ Leadership Retreats + PD Days  
✅ Podcasts & Thought-Leadership Events 

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Consultants + Advisors

✅ Problem: You know schools need AI support—but how do you yourself become the trusted partner in a world of hype and risk?

 

✅ Path: Join our 7-week  training → weekly coaching + real time AI workflows → certification 

 

✅ Outcome: Become the advisor schools trust when they’re ready to act, not just explore.

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Curious how we can help you?

What is The Path from EI to AI™?​

 

The PATH from EI to AI™ is a framework for leaders and consultants who believe the future of education depends on human judgment as much as technological skill.
 

It bridges emotional intelligence (EI), executive function (EF), and AI fluency so you can lead confidently, communicate clearly, and govern responsibly in an AI-powered world.

 

WHY IT MATTERS

Most leaders feel the pressure to “do something with AI,” but worry about liability, policy gaps, and staff readiness.

The PATH offers a safe, structured way to experiment with AI while strengthening the human skills that make technology trustworthy.

 

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HOW IT WORKS

The PATH unfolds through four practices you can model in your school or consulting work:

  1. Pause – Reflect before you react. Create space for judgment and clarity in a world moving at AI speed.

  2. Align – Align every decision in values, ethics, and evidence so governance feels like care, not control.

  3. Trust – Build confidence through competence. Work with AI to solve your own real problems before scaling to teachers and students.

  4. Hone – Practice, critique, and improve. Treat AI as a craft that grows with reflection and feedback.

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THE RESULT

Leaders and consultants emerge with the confidence and clarity to write policy, run pilots, and guide others without losing what makes education human.

Lead with emotional intelligence. Learn AI with integrity. Then scale what works.

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WHY IT'S NEEDED

While schools ask students to produce, the real world asks them to lead.


Today’s workforce doesn’t want passive learners. They want critical thinkers, adaptive collaborators, purpose-driven innovators. Yet many schools and consultants feel stuck - outdated systems, uneven policies, and rising pressure to ‘keep up’ without a roadmap.


That’s where we come in. We build leaders who can bridge Emotional Intelligence → Executive Function → AI Fluency, and do it in systems that are safe, scalable, and human-centered.

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WHERE IT ALL COMES TOGETHER

From early childhood programs (DROPLETS™ and DROPLETS Bridge™) to whole-system AI readiness, the thread is the same: build emotional and executive capacities first, then layer in strategic technology fluency.
 

I partner with schools, districts, and educational consultants to deliver sustainable, human-centered AI leadership grounded in decades of practice with children, teams, and systems.​​

Learn together. Adapt together. Lead together.

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Curiosity =
Inquiry Mindset
Executive Function =
Systems Thinking
Emotional Intelligence =
Relational Judgment
AI Fluency =
Strategic Application
Educational Consultant

Before [the AI BlackBelt] course, I mostly used AI for quick searches. Now, I use it daily — for business planning, research, and even professional writing. It’s saving me close to 50 hours a month.

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