Who you would be working with

Elizabeth helps founders and small to mid-market companies close the gap between what AI can produce and the human judgment that turns it into something worth doing.

Her path began two decades ago with her own computer consulting company, and she has sat at the intersection of strategy, operations, and technology ever since. She built a new market vertical at a global engineering firm from the ground up, growing it from 15 to 250 people and moving it from fifteenth to sixth in national rankings. She brought that same operational instinct to global professional services, partnering with executive leadership on mergers, acquisitions, and growth, before moving into digital and AI product strategy at a global manufacturer. Most recently she designed and scaled an AI adoption and governance program inside a global software organization, taking it from a business case she wrote herself to executive sponsorship and full rollout across engineering, product, and design.

Her through-line is judgment under abundance. She authored the five-layer AI System Map, which lets leaders see where AI risk and value actually sit, and a framework for why AI investment routinely outruns an organization’s ability to use it. She holds an Executive MBA and a bachelor’s degree, and she lectures and gives talks on the business applications of AI.

Michael works where strategy meets feasibility, making sure a plan is shaped from the start by what can actually be built and run. His signature is the internal intelligence layer: the knowledge bases and reporting systems that turn an organization’s scattered information into one thing people can decide from.

For more than fifteen years he has run translational research operations in academic medicine, managing a multi-million-dollar portfolio and a team of more than twenty in cell and gene therapy for rare diseases. He learned to set direction and deliver where the compliance bar is absolute and the stakes are patient outcomes. He holds an Executive MBA.

Because he builds these systems himself, his strategy stays grounded in what is genuinely shippable. He has designed the knowledge bases, dashboards, and internal applications that become an organization’s operating backbone, from automated procurement to organizational health reporting, and a competitive intelligence platform that benchmarked one research institute against all 120 cell and gene therapy centers in its field. He co-founded the student AI business club where MBAI started, and he still teaches this in weekly sessions and retreats.

Stacie leads operations, communications, and partnerships at MBAI, where she owns pricing, client materials, and the systems that keep an engagement moving without anyone having to chase it.

Her career began in clinical laboratory science and healthcare operations, where she built a foundation in accuracy, process, and working inside regulated environments. She moved into operations and communications roles across hospitality, nonprofit, and community organizations. She has redesigned order-tracking workflows to cut delays across departments, written the standard operating procedures that carried organizations through leadership transitions, and directed teams ranging from 30 to more than 100 volunteers delivering housing, education, and employment support. She has built outreach relationships with more than 200 organizations and helped secure program funding through grant writing and donor strategy, exceeding fundraising goals by 30 percent.

She is proficient in Portuguese and Spanish, a Certified Facilitator through the Arbinger Institute, and holds an Executive MBA and a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Laboratory Science.