AI governance for leadership teams
Your people are using AI.
Make every decision owned.
In one 20-minute call you will know what to govern first, so you can answer a board, a client or an insurer with confidence. I help leaders decide what AI may touch and who answers for the results. You leave with plain rules and a named owner.
Book a 20-minute call →See the governance review →
- A policy people follow
- A named owner for every AI decision
- Evidence you can show a board
Leadership Council Member, National Small Business Association. I advocate with the NSBA on AI and SI legislation, so the rules you will live under are written with small business in the room.
See the advocacy work →The leadership question
Can you say what AI is allowed to touch
and who answers for it?
Know what it may touch
Sort every AI use into what it may read, draft, change, and send or delete. Reading and drafting can run on their own. Changing and sending need a person’s yes.
Name who answers for it
When AI shapes a hire, a price, a claim or a client message, one person must be able to explain the decision. Governance starts by naming that person.
Be able to show it
Rules in writing, a record of how AI-assisted work is checked, and a way to report problems. That is what “we govern our AI” looks like under scrutiny.
Start here
Three ways to start
with governance.
AI governance review
Find the AI already in use, name an owner for every AI-influenced decision, and leave with a policy people will follow.
See what is included → Free to adaptA sample AI use policy
One plain-language page: approved tools, data rules, decisions that need a named owner, review and incident reporting.
Read the sample → One on oneExecutive coaching on AI
Decide what to hand to AI, review its work with confidence, and keep every decision owned by a person.
See how coaching works →What leaders get
A governance foundation,
not a stack of tools.
Rules people follow
A short, plain-language policy built around how your people really work, so it is used and not filed.
Clear ownership
Every AI-influenced decision that matters has a named person who can explain it.
Answers you can defend
Records and review habits that let you show the board, a client or an insurer how AI is controlled.
What happens next
Three small steps.
Nothing to commit to up front.
You send a short email
Tell me how AI is used in your business and what worries you. It takes five minutes and I reply personally.
We talk for 20 minutes
I ask what you do today and where AI is already at work. You leave knowing what to govern first, even if we never work together.
You decide the next step
A governance review, coaching or training. You pick, and you can stop at any point.
On Capitol Hill
A voice for small business on AI legislation
I spend time in Washington with the NSBA advocating on AI and SI legislation and governance, so small business is not crushed by rules written for companies a hundred times its size.
See the NSBA advocacy work →Governance in practice
I run my own work by these rules
I built a digital worker, Alexis, to prove the approach: written limits, approval on everything that leaves, and a log of every action. It is a working example of the governance I teach.
See the governance →Meet Alexis →What clients and colleagues say
“In just sixty minutes, Paul was able to cut straight to the core of all of the issues I’m presently facing in my business and realign my thinking around them.”Charlie Poe, Founder & Principal Coach, 728 Group
“Paul has an uncanny knack of asking you the right question to reveal the barriers to your growth and success.”Mick Holly, Strategic Execution Partner
“His honest, ethical approach to all business decisions will give you peace of mind in all decisions.”Michael Garrison, MBA, colleague of ten years
Latest writing
Plain talk on AI and leadership.
Leadership · 8 min readWhat is AI, Really? It's Not What You Think—And That's the Problem
The definition every executive should be able to give before approving the next rollout.
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Governance · 5 min readTrust vs. Verification: The Execution Gap in AI-Driven Leadership
Why polished output is not accurate output, and a simple verification framework.
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Leadership · 5 min readIs Your Judgment Migrating? (The Quiet Leadership Crisis)
The slow, unannounced shift of decisions from people to systems, and how to spot it.
Read the article →Not ready to talk yet?
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Start here
One short call.
You leave knowing what to govern first.
Twenty minutes. Tell me what you want AI to do and we decide what it is allowed to do. No pitch theater, and you can stop at any point.
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