A Clear Path Forward
A business wide, prioritized view of where AI can create value, what it requires, and the next best decision.
Fractional Chief AI Advisor
Custom AI Strategy. Designed for impact.
AI decisions affect operations, people, information, and investment across the business. I work alongside owners and leadership teams to turn that activity into a clear strategy that fits how your business operates, supports employee adoption, and can be measured against business priorities.
MIT Sloan Executive ProgramArtificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy
25+ YearsBusiness Leadership & Entrepreneurship
International AI Speaker & TrainerU.S., Canada, and Europe
Two Time National AI Award WinnerColdwell Banker and Inman News
Integrating AI Is Creating Business Decisions, Not Just Technology Choices
Tools, requests, and vendor claims are arriving from every direction. Without a business wide view, a decision that helps one team can create more work, risk, or confusion elsewhere.
I examine how work moves across the company and establish a baseline, so AI decisions are based on verified business needs, not product hype.
Together, we clarify:
- Where AI can make a meaningful difference
- Existing tools, costs, ownership, and data use
- Employee readiness and adoption needs
- Guardrails for data, human review, ownership, and risk
- The baseline, measures of progress, and remaining questions
“AI should build on a clear understanding of your business, strengthening what already works and improving what matters most.”
What You Can Expect
Clear direction for the decisions ahead, support through adoption, and a capability your business can carry forward.
Executive Judgment When It Matters
I bring the analysis, options, and recommendation; you bring the knowledge of your business. Decisions move forward without taking focus from running it.
Implementation Your People Adopt
I stay through rollout, helping leadership make change practical and supporting employees as new ways of working take hold.
Momentum That Compounds
Each decision and its reasoning are recorded, giving the next decision a stronger starting point. Over time, AI becomes a consistent business capability.
Why Work With Kanani
AI tools are easy to buy. The consequential work is deciding which opportunities deserve the investment, how each one affects the rest of the business, and who owns it once it is running. Those are leadership decisions, and they need someone at the table who has made them before.
As your Fractional Chief AI Advisor, I bring more than 25 years of leading teams, strengthening operations, and building businesses, including overseeing Hawaiʻi’s largest real estate brokerage. I know that AI decisions cannot be separated from budgets, people, risk, and customer experience. I help leadership set priorities, put practical governance in place, and support employees as AI becomes part of everyday work.
That operating experience is paired with the MIT Sloan Executive Program, Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy, and the AI SPEED Method I developed for responsible implementation. The result is clear decisions, sustained adoption, and a capability your business can sustain.
Stages, Organizations & Media Features
Recognized for speaking, training, and advising on the practical business use of AI.
Chamber of Commerce HawaiiColdwell Banker RealtyMortgage Banker Association of HawaiiEmTech Invest / World Economic ForumPacific Business NewsPMI Hawaii
From AI Activity to Business Impact
See The Whole Business
Understand how work moves across teams, what is already in use, and where AI can make a meaningful difference.
Set Direction and Guardrails
Prioritize opportunities, make tool and provider decisions, design the operating approach, and establish practical governance.
Lead Adoption and Learn
Clarify ownership, support employees, measure early results, and carry the decision record forward.
The engagement
Your First 90 Days
The engagement begins with a business wide assessment and roadmap. We then move the highest priority opportunities forward, keeping no more than two initiatives active at a time. As one reaches a clear decision or moves into rollout, the next priority can be brought forward.
Understand & Prioritize
Identify top business initiatives and determine measurable KPI metrics.
Outcome: A written 30/60/90 day plan with defined success measures.
Throughout The Engagement
Recurring executive sessions, practical governance guidance, ongoing analysis, and support for your process owners as the work moves forward.
First 90 Day Outcomes
A Business Wide AI View and Priority Roadmap
Current tools, uses, costs, data considerations, and ranked opportunities.
Decision ready plans for priorities advanced
For every priority that moves forward, you receive clear requirements, workflows, ownership, human review points, success measures, and next steps.
Practical Governance and Executive Cadence
Responsible use guidance, decision sessions, and clear operating boundaries.
A current decision record and next stage recommendations
Decisions, risks, owners, capability gaps, and recommended priorities for what follows.
Is This Right for Your Business?
This is a strong fit if you:
- See AI as a sustained leadership priority
- Want to stay competitive as AI reshapes your industry
- Need clear analysis before major tool, provider, or workflow decisions
- Are ready to set priorities and support adoption
- Want lasting AI capability within your team
Solving one defined workflow?
Start with an AI Opportunity Assessment; a focused three week review with a clear path forward.
Explore the AI Opportunity AssessmentFAQs
Three months. Toward the end of that term we review what has been accomplished and decide together whether to continue. Engagements that continue do so on a monthly basis.
The engagement is anchored by a recurring executive session, either 45 minutes each week or 90 minutes every other week, depending on how your leadership team prefers to work. Analysis and implementation continue between sessions.
You gain continuity of judgment: thoughtful guidance on the decisions in front of you from someone who retains the full context of your business, month after month, in support of sustainable business growth.
The workflows and processes we design reflect how your business truly operates, rather than forcing it into a standard template. Your people are involved as they take shape and learn to run them in practice. This is deliberate: the capability remains within your business, so your team can carry the work forward confidently after the engagement ends.
I define the business solution around your workflows, requirements, ownership, and success measures. Where constructing custom software or systems is needed, a qualified technical specialist delivers the build; I help keep the work aligned with the business needs.
Yes. Up to four of your designated people have a dedicated channel for questions and requests as they arise, so nothing has to wait for the next scheduled session.
That is a useful place to begin. One of our first steps is to understand what is already in place and the value it is creating for your business.
We establish a baseline, define the intended business measures, and review early evidence as the work moves forward. Where evidence is incomplete, we identify what needs to be tested or adjusted next
You receive a detailed written analysis of what has been implemented and decided, what has changed, where the business now stands, and the recommended next steps. It is structured as a practical record you can use in the way that best serves your business.
This is worth discussing on our call. Regulated and multi-entity businesses often have additional requirements, so we would work through what your particular situation calls for before beginning.
We discuss the investment on our call, once I have a clearer understanding of your business. The engagement is structured as a monthly retainer with an initial three month term, priced in line with senior advisory work.
Start With a Conversation
A 30 minute conversation to discuss your business, the decisions ahead, and what kind of support is right for you.
- Explore where operational effort is currently concentrated.
- Clarify your primary strategic outcomes.
- Identify the critical factors needed for success.
- Discuss your most effective next step.