You’ve been told to “show AI results”
yesterday.
In the AI era, standing still is like standing in quicksand. Without clarity and a plan, you sink fast. Opportunities vanish, talent leaves, and someone else writes the playbook for your future.
That’s where I come in.
I help high-value leaders and their creator teams, those with deep domain expertise in marketing, communications, sales, and HR, use AI as a creative, compliant, and competitive edge.
When AI meets Original Intelligence™, human judgment leads, AI delivers, and your team sets the pace others scramble to follow.
Build an AI-Fluent Organization with
Original Intelligence™
You can have AI users or you can have AI-fluent creators. One executes tasks. The other drives strategy and creates what’s next.
AI fluency means your people:
- Spot opportunities everyone else misses.
- Push AI to its creative limits without crossing compliance lines.
- Turn governance into a growth engine instead of a blocker.
With Original Intelligence™, your team’s ideas, ethics, and strategy set the course, and the technology delivers with precision.
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
Clay Sharman,
Co-founder and Head Creative, @ Krateo
Catherine brought the kind of presence moderators hope for. She came ready, stayed sharp, and made the conversation stronger. Her take on AI was clear, grounded, and full of examples that stuck with the audience. When the ethical line came up, she answered with clarity. No hesitation.
Efe Abugo,
Technical Product Marketing, Microsoft M365 Copilot
Catherine brought a clear voice to a room full of pressure and possibility. Her take on AI was grounded in the realities of enterprise work but never lost sight of people. She made space for nuance, asked hard questions with respect, and moved the conversation in a direction that mattered.
Juliana Posada Cardona
Head of Communications LAD, Oracle
Catherine is a standout professional with a strong business and market vision. Her guidance helped me think more strategically and make key decisions that now empower me to better connect our communications and marketing teams in Latin America. I greatly value her work and her executive coaching.
Jerrica Stovall,
Director, Collegiate Communities, American Marketing Association
Catherine brought exactly what our collegiate audience needed. Clarity, depth, and honest guidance on how to lead with AI. I invited her because I knew she would show up with purpose, and she did. She made the conversation real and left a lasting impression on the room.
Justin Levine,
Senior Manager of Member Relations, Communications Leadership Council at Ragan Communications
Catherine’s presentations engage executive leaders and teams in Fortune 500 companies operating in regulated, high stakes environments as they navigate AI. She blends strategic clarity with creative, real world application, leaving participants with actionable approaches that deliver measurable impact.
Jeff Johnson,
Retired Global Marketing at Dell Technologies
Catherine is just one of these amazing people that just knows the right way to do things. She has such talent in marketing messaging and great instincts. Collaboration with her is always productive and fun. She is a really great member of our team and a wonderful colleague.
Meet
CATHERINE RICHARDS
Catherine Richards is the AI Truth Teller, the one leaders in regulated industries call when they need clarity and a plan to move AI forward with confidence. She has shaped cybersecurity and global regulation narratives at Dell Technologies and VMware, advanced adoption at Adobe, and pilot tested enterprise AI platforms for creators at Jasper and Writer.
Her superpower is uniting creativity and compliance so highest-value creator functions act decisively. She builds AI fluency that holds up under scrutiny, where human judgment and imagination direct the technology, not the other way around.
I help leaders like you take bold, meaningful action
in complex,
high-stakes spaces.
How We Can Work Together
From rapid adoption to lasting fluency, I help leaders cut through uncertainty with clarity and confidence to build what’s next without trading creativity for compliance.
- AI Adoption Sprints – Fast, safe, measurable wins
- Governance & Risk Translation – Clear policies that enable breakthroughs
- Team Enablement – Skills and workflows for lasting fluency
- Executive Advisory & Fractional Support – Strategic guidance on demand
Book Catherine to
SPEAK
“What if your supply chain report was a dating app?”
“What if your product became a meme?”
Catherine Richards is the AI Truth Teller who turns “I never thought of it that way” into a standing ovation. She blends sharp insight with unexpected imagination, showing audiences how to break through red tape without breaking the rules, spot opportunities everyone else misses, and turn bold what-ifs into executable strategies.
You’ll leave her sessions with the kind of clarity, confidence, and ideas you can put to work before your inbox has a chance to explode.
- Executive Summits & Innovation Conferences
- Enterprise, Public Sector & Creative Forums
- AI Adoption & Fluency Workshops
- Media & Podcast Interviews
