Founder, Building Beta
Executive AI Fluency. For when everyone expects answers.
Shelly Thomas works with the leaders everyone turns to for the AI answer, and who were never handed one. The founder of Building Beta and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, she has spent 20 years watching training get this backwards: it starts with the technology and hopes the people catch up. She starts with the people, because the operations director who has run that plant for a decade already knows where the time is going.
She built the event on that idea, now centered in AI: no feature tours, no vendor pitch, and nobody pretending your job is simpler than it is. Copilot supports your team’s judgment; it does not replace the brains behind the operation. She spends two days making leaders fluent enough to make their own calls, then puts it in writing: a first workflow, a license plan, a champion map, and 30 days of specific actions.
You will not leave inspired. You will leave with a recipe for winning your next day in the office.