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Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi

Human-Centered AI Strategist | Executive Educator | Global Speaker

Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi helps boards, executive teams, and institutions build the judgment, governance, and leadership capability required to lead responsibly in the age of AI.

Founder, LizNgonzi.ai

Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU Center for Global Affairs

Board Member & Founding Ethics Chair, American Society for Artificial Intelligence (ASFAI)

Ways to Engage

Custom learning and leadership experiences designed around your audience, strategic priorities, and delivery environment.

Keynotes & featured talks

For conferences, leadership summits, annual meetings, and large-scale gatherings.

Executive briefings

For boards, executive teams, leadership retreats, and decision-makers shaping AI priorities.

Interactive workshops

For leadership cohorts and cross-functional teams seeking practical application and shared understanding.

Half-day and full-day intensives

For deeper skill-building, strategic alignment, and structured working sessions.

Multi-session and multi-day programs

For executive education, academic programs, leadership academies, and sustained organizational learning.

Moderation, panels & fireside conversations

For convenings that require informed, engaging dialogue on AI, leadership, and institutional change.

Available in person, online, and in hybrid formats for corporations, universities, boards, leadership teams, associations, conferences, and global convenings.

Leadership Themes and Conversation Areas

Liz’s executive education, speaking, and convening work can be tailored around the leadership questions organizations are facing now—from AI adoption and workforce transformation to governance, communication, and institutional capability.

Talk 1

Human‑Centered AI Leadership: From Experimentation to Accountable Adoption

How organizations can move beyond isolated AI pilots toward adoption that strengthens human judgment, governance, trust, and institutional capability.

Talk 2

1+1+AI=10™: The Human Equation for High‑Performing Institutions

Liz’s signature methodology for combining individual expertise, collective intelligence, and AI-enabled amplification to create stronger outcomes—without losing what makes leadership human.

Talk 3

AI, Work & the Future of Leadership

A leadership-centered exploration of how AI is reshaping roles, skills, work design, decision-making, and workforce readiness across professions and institutions.

Talk 4

Storytelling in the Age of AI: The SHINE™ Framework for Leading Change

A strategic communication experience for leaders navigating complex change and seeking to build clarity, trust, alignment, and action across diverse stakeholders.

Relevant across enterprise technology and AI platforms; workforce, labor, and talent development; health and access; financial markets and business leadership; legal and regulated professions; higher education and executive learning; associations and member communities; and public-benefit organizations.

Three Decades of Navigating Technological Change

A career spanning technology, leadership, learning, and institutional transformation—helping people and organizations navigate consequential change with clarity.

Enterprise Technology Foundations

Early career at Digital Equipment Corporation, MICROS Systems, Inc. and Arthur Andersen, learning how institutions adopt and resist transformational change, and developing systems thinking at scale.

Transformation Leadership

Decades leading organizations through digital disruption, where strategy met execution and technology decisions became leadership decisions.

Executive Education & Innovation

17+ years building courses, programs, and learning communities at NYU, later designing AI for Impact, practical AI learning for professionals and organizations.

Human-Centered AI Leadership

Founder of AI for Humanity and today's frontier work: helping leaders build institutional capability, governance, and judgment for the age of AI.

Why Liz, Right Now

The central challenge of the AI era is not adoption speed. It is whether people and institutions can strengthen judgment, leadership, governance, and accountability as intelligent systems grow more powerful.

Elizabeth (Liz) Ngonzi is a global human-centered AI strategist, executive educator, and platform architect with more than 30 years of experience spanning technology transformation, management consulting, executive education, and institutional innovation. She helps boards, executive teams, and institutions move from fragmented AI experimentation to coherent, accountable adoption—designing the decision environments, leadership experiences, and learning platforms that strengthen governance and workforce capability in increasingly complex environments.

She is the architect of the 1+1+AI=10™ methodology, which reframes AI not as a replacement for human capability but as an amplifier of it, and the SHINE™ Storytelling Framework, which helps leaders communicate complex change with clarity and trust. Since 2023, her work has reached more than 12,000 professionals across six continents through executive education, strategic advisory, and leadership convenings.

Liz is Founder of LizNgonzi.ai, a human-centered AI leadership ecosystem, and originator / founding platform achictect of AI for Humanity: Human-Centered Strategies for Innovation and Impact, a global public-benefit platform and living anthology focused on ethics, governance, innovation, and societal impact. She serves as a Board Member and Founding Ethics Chair at the American Society for Artificial Intelligence, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs, where she has taught for 17 years.

Impact by the Numbers

12,000+

Professionals equipped with generative AI knowledge and applications since 2023.

40,000+

Participants engaged through executive education, leadership convenings, and learning experiences since 2020.

140+

Leadership convenings, webinars, executive sessions, and institutional programs delivered since 2020.

6

Continents reached through leadership, education, and advisory work.

30+

Years of experience across technology transformation, executive education, and institutional leadership.

Representative metrics based on executive education, training programs, speaking engagements, partnerships, and learning experiences delivered since 2020.

Leadership Experiences & Institutional Engagements

Selected speaking engagements, convenings, and institutional collaborations demonstrating how human-centered AI leadership is put into practice across sectors, audiences, and formats.

What People Say

Enterprise / Corporate


“Your insights gave us the actionable strategies, platforms, and tools we need to innovate… This is the best summit we’ve ever had.”

— Alyssa Smith

Marketing Operations Manager, Healthcare Technology Company

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Academic / Institutional


“Such a fantastic event… your session was really informative and helpful.”

— Heather M. Burke

Antitrust Partner, Faegre Drinker — Center for Women in Law (CWIL) Power Summit

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C-Suite Peer Validation


“I received significant post-event feedback on how insightful your remarks were. You’re certainly a wonderful thought partner to have.”

— Sudeep Kesh

Managing Director, Innovation & Disruptive Technology, S&P Global Ratings

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Audience Reaction


“Liz Ngonzi spoke about how human leadership is becoming more essential as AI systems evolve. Her work centers human agency, collective wisdom, and collaborative partnership with AI tools. The future is profoundly human.”

— Miami University IT Services

Third Annual AI Symposium Recap (2026)

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Featured Recent Commentary

Recent commentary on AI leadership, enterprise risk, workforce transformation, markets, and institutional responsibility.

August 11th, 2026

EXCLUSIVE: Meta’s OpenAI Push Puts Pressure on Private AI Valuations — Benzinga

An analysis of how major-platform moves in AI are distorting private‑market valuations, and what this means for leaders trying to separate real institutional value from speculative noise. . ⠀ ⠀. ⠀…..

Benzinga

AI’s moat is getting harder to defend: Where will value accrue? Experts tell Benzinga why the valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic are at risk.

July 26th, 2026

The Urgency to Close the AI Gender Divide Before It Affects the Pay Gap — CNET

A governance‑and‑workforce piece on how AI adoption decisions today will shape earnings, opportunity, and economic outcomes, and why leaders must treat AI access as core workforce infrastructure. ⠀ ⠀. ⠀. ……..

CNET

Elizabeth Ngonzi, an executive AI advisor, board member at the American Society for AI and adjunct assistant professor at New York University, says there’s a level of urgency to close the gap before it becomes a larger economic divide.

June 12th, 2026

13 Career Insurance Policies Every Professional Should Have — Fast Company

A practical lens on how executives and professionals can future‑proof their careers in an AI‑enabled economy, grounded in leadership, judgment, and long‑term value rather than hype.

Fast Company

Expert advice for bulletproofing your career. Today’s professional landscape demands more than technical skills and a polished resume. Career security now requires deliberate strategies that protect against disruption, position you as indispensable, and create multiple pathways to opportunity.

March 31st, 2026

Your AI Vendor Is Now a Single Point of Failure — InformationWeek

An enterprise‑risk perspective on over‑reliance on AI vendors, what CIOs and leaders should be asking, and how governance must adapt as AI systems become embedded infrastructure. ⠀ ⠀. ⠀

Information Week

Most enterprises have no continuity plan for the day their foundation model gets deprecated, repriced or acquired -- but they need one.

Selected Media & Institutional Recognition

Liz’s insights on human-centered AI leadership, governance, and workforce transformation have been featured across leading media and institutional platforms.

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For the complete media archive, interviews, and downloadable assets, visit the full MEDIA & PRESS KIT →

Bring Human-Centered AI Leadership to Your Organization

Whether you are planning a keynote, executive briefing, leadership retreat, interactive workshop, half-day or full-day intensive, multi-session learning experience, panel, moderated conversation, or global convening, Liz designs engagements that meet leaders where they are—and help them move forward with greater clarity, capability, and accountability.

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