AI Strategy  ·  Workforce Transformation  ·  Executive Education

AI raises the premium on human judgment.

I help leadership teams and their people navigate the redefinition of work — grounded in years of business education at Dartmouth’s Tuck School, and in the practice of someone who builds with these tools every day. Executive workshops, staff learning programs, and strategic advisory.

The gap

Most organizations are conflating two very different problems.

Companies say they need help with “AI” — but that word is hiding two distinct conversations, and they get very different answers.

Conversation one

AI strategy

A business strategy conversation · For leadership

Where does AI change the business — not just the workflow? Which assumptions still hold, where does advantage accrue, and what should we do about it?

→ Executive workshops  ·  Strategic advisory
Conversation two

AI competency

An employee learning conversation · For the workforce

How do our people actually work differently? What skills, habits, and judgment do they need to use AI well rather than blindly?

→ Staff learning programs  ·  Learning tracks

Strategy without competency produces plans nobody can execute. Competency without strategy produces skills pointed at nothing. Most organizations need both — and most advisors can hold only one of these conversations. I do both.

Across both, the goal is never to replace your people’s thinking. It’s to sharpen it — to raise the premium on human judgment, and give people the discernment to use AI well.

Services

Three ways to engage — across both conversations

Strategy

Executive workshops

Half-day or full-day sessions with leadership teams on AI strategy and the redefinition of work. Where AI changes the business, not just the workflow.

Half or full day · On-site or remote
Competency

Staff learning programs

Multi-session curriculum for managers and knowledge workers. Hands-on and practical, organized around intent-based learning tracks.

3–4 sessions · Cohort-based
Strategy · Ongoing

Strategic advisory

A monthly thinking partner on AI strategy and workforce change, for a small number of organizations. Light-touch and high-trust.

Monthly retainer · Limited availability
Learning tracks

Organized by intent, not skill rank

People don’t need the same thing from AI. Programs meet people where they are and move them toward what they need to do. Most organizations need a mix.

Fluency

For everyone

Getting genuinely comfortable and capable with AI tools — building intuition for what these systems do well, where they fail, and how to work with them day to day. The foundation everything else sits on.

Context building

For teams & operations leaders

Moving from scattered, in-people’s-heads knowledge to shared, AI-usable context. The unglamorous work that determines whether AI is useful or noise inside a company.

Agents & agentic thinking

For builders & managers

What agents actually are, what they can and can’t do, and how to delegate work to them. The key skill of the AI era is orchestration — directing AI systems toward outcomes — and I teach it from hands-on agent building, not slideware.

Software thinking, no code required

For non-technical builders

The conceptual toolkit non-engineers need to build and reason about AI-enabled solutions — data flow, state, integration, error handling — without writing software.

Strategist

For leadership teams

First-principles thinking for leaders deciding where AI changes the business: which assumptions still hold, where advantage accrues, and how to make sound decisions under genuine uncertainty.

About

A builder’s perspective, an educator’s craft

I’ve spent over a decade at the intersection of business education and emerging technology, teaching AI to MBA students, undergraduates, and corporate executives, and convening leaders across the AI industry.

The more useful point is how I work: I don’t just teach about AI — I build with it. I work directly in the tools and model SDKs, and I build my own agents and prototypes. That practice is where speed comes from: not doing the same work faster, but prototyping and iterating quickly enough to learn what works before committing. When I teach agentic thinking, it’s grounded in having done the work.

  • Executive Director, Center for Digital Strategies — Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
  • Founder & organizer, the Dartmouth AI Conference — now in its fourth year, convening leaders from across the AI industry
  • Curriculum designer & facilitator — AI learning programs delivered to MBA students, executives, and corporate teams, including engagements with leading technology companies
  • Writer & speaker — published frameworks on AI strategy, context infrastructure, and the future of knowledge work
How I work

Scoped, focused, and honest about what this isn’t

  • Expert, not army. I come in, shift how your people think, and leave them more capable. No team to manage, no scope that expands on its own.
  • Strategy and capability, not implementation. I help organizations think differently about AI and work. I don’t build your tech stack or evaluate vendors.
  • Scoped up front. Clear deliverables, clear timeline, clear cost — before we start.
  • Deliberately limited. I take a small number of engagements per quarter. That keeps the work sharp.
Contact

Start with a short scoping call

If your organization is wrestling with how AI changes the work your people do, the first step is a conversation: where the need is most acute, and which mix of workshops, training, or advisory would move the needle fastest.

Email me
PATRICK WHEELER  ·  PATRICK@PATRICKWHEELERADVISORY.COM  ·  LINKEDIN  ·  BASED IN VERMONT / UPPER VALLEY, NH