For years my work happened in the quiet part of the room. The pivot no one had language for yet, the transition that needed someone to draw the answer out. When AI arrived, I felt what a lot of people are feeling now: the very real possibility of becoming irrelevant. I moved toward it anyway. Everything I build now lives on the other side of that decision.
Sherylle speaks to leadership teams, boards, and professional communities navigating AI adoption and the shift in how work is defined.
Also available as a podcast guest.
None of this gets built alone. If you see yourself in one of these projects, there's a seat in the room for you.
For nonprofits and mission-driven teams.
A practical path to adopting AI without losing what makes your organization effective. Strategy, training, and implementation built around your mission, not bolted onto it.
WhoFor nonprofit and mission-driven leaders. Enrolling now for the next cohort.
For consultants and solopreneurs.
Stop doing everything alone. Backed by Agents builds your personal agentic team. The systems and AI workflows that quietly handle the work behind your work.
WhoFor consultants and solopreneurs.
For anyone carrying too much.
A quiet tool for the noise we all carry. A way to move what's in your head into something you can actually work with. Built from an idea carried for years, now opening to a small group of pilot users.
WhoFor people carrying a full mental load who want a consistent way to move it out of their head and into motion.
For therapists who want to see more.
A reflective instrument designed to help therapists see more of what's already there. Built with intention, and reviewed with practicing clinicians before wider release.
WhoLicensed therapists currently seeing clients.
CommitmentAbout two hours a month, usually two one-hour conversations.
For the people who show up for democracy.
A nonpartisan civic app in development, designed to give voters a clear view of the record, not the rhetoric.
WhoPractitioners with real experience in nonpartisan civic and democracy work, to advise during development.
CommitmentAbout two hours a month, usually two one-hour conversations.
Runner-up, Mindvalley Impact Project of the Year.
Sherylle Bates is a Strategic Advisor and AI Solutions Architect. A principal consultant since 2013, she writes the strategy, but implementation is the part she loves. She works inside mission-driven organizations at their most consequential moments.
Her strategy and management consulting clients have included Planned Parenthood Federation of America, The Legal Aid Society, Run for Something, and Supermajority. Her AI practice came later, built through Mindvalley's AI Mastery program and Noelle Russell's AI Leadership Institute, where she trained to build responsibly.
"The work hasn't changed. What I can build with it has."
She is the founder of the AI Strategy and Adoption Lab and is building a portfolio of products designed to do what her work has always done: provoke thought that inspires action. One of them, a civic app, was named runner-up for Mindvalley's Impact Project of the Year.
At the AI Leadership Institute, she was named the first AI JEDI, a designation for builders who put justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion at the center of how AI gets made. For someone with more than a decade of equity and change work behind her, it is a natural evolution: the values came first, and now they have new tools. She holds an MBA and a B.A. in Speech and Public Communication from Brooklyn College.
Looking for a speaker, a podcast guest, or a voice in the room as your organization navigates the shift? Write to me. I'll write back.
