"AI doesn't fail because orgs resist change. It fails because they were never taught how to operate in an AI-native world."
-Dr. Elouise
01 / Training & Coaching
Teaching AI to People Over 40
AI will not be adopted through more sophisticated tools. It will be adopted through better understanding. The companies that win will not be the ones with the most AI — they will be the ones that learn fastest how to operate with it. Dr. Elouise's Enterprise Education Program helps people over 40 build genuine AI capability, not through one-off training, but through sustained, structured practice.
Delivered through Dr. Elouise LLC.
Training & Coaching Programs
Track 1:
Fluency
Build AI Awareness and Productivity
All Professionals Entering the AI Era
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AI literacy for leaders
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AI for personal & team productivity
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AI across the function lifecycle
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AI use case identification & prioritization
Track 2: Design
Build and Deploy AI Agents
Practitioners Building AI-assisted Workflows
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Designing AI agents (beginner)
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Designing AI agents (intermediate)
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Data readiness & governance
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AI risk, ethics & compliance
Track 3: Governance
Redesign for AI-first Operations
Redesign for AI-first operations
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AI employees & future operating models
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Orchestrating AI: the new human role
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Enterprise AI governance
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AI adoption strategy & change leadership
Track 4: Architecture
Construct Your Personal AI Infrastructure
Advanced Cohort - Dr. Elouise direct only
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Build your AI stack
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Build your 2nd brain
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Train AI on your expertise
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Deploy your AI chief of staff
Delivery Method
Each enterprise engagement combines in-person workshop days with virtual coaching sessions over 12 months. Teams are divided into cohorts of 6–8 people, each with a dedicated facilitator.
"One training day doesn't build a team, practice does."
02 / Publications
Publications
From digital procurement to AI-native enterprise - four books tracing one throughline: how organizations actually adapt when the ground shifts under them.
Debasing the San Francisco Bay Area: From Strategic Asset to Military Wasteland
By Dr. Elouise Epstein
Take a trip back to the 1990s with Dr. Elouise Epstein’s latest book Debasing the San Francisco Bay Area.. Read more...
Coming Soon
How To Hack Your Supply Chain: Breaking Today, Building Tomorrow
By Dr. Elouise Epstein
This book provides insights to practitioners for navigating the ongoing volatility of the disruptive world we live in.. Read more...
Trade Wars, Pandemics, and chaos
by Dr. Elouise Epstein
This book is an in-depth look at how to strategize, evaluate, and approach the wildly exciting world of digital procurement. Read more...
03 / Public Speaking
Book Dr. Elouise
Dr. Elouise brings a rare combination to any stage: more than a quarter century of management consulting, a PhD in history, and a front-row seat to the AI revolution transforming enterprise. Her talks are known for dry wit, unexpected historical parallels, and an unsettling clarity about what’s actually coming — and what leaders need to do about it.
Keynote Topics
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What I've Learned Teaching AI to People Over 40: The True Generational Gap
It's Not About Technology. It's About Identity.
KEY POINTS
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The generational divide in AI isn’t about digital literacy — it’s about professional identity and the threat of obsolescence
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What actually works: the adoption patterns that cut through resistance
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The hidden cost of “change management theater” in AI rollouts
For event planners: The most expensive AI problem isn’t the technology — it’s the 52-year-old VP who’s decided they’ve already learned enough.
The Future of Business in the AI Era: What History Tells Us About This Moment
Every Revolution Has a Precedent. This One is No Different.
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WWII as the first war won by supply chain — and what that tells us about who wins the AI era
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The pattern: every transformational technology destroys incumbents who bolt it onto existing systems
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The decisions leaders make in the next 24 months that will determine the next 20 years
For event planners: History doesn’t repeat — but it does leave very clear instructions
War and Supply Chains: How Logistics Wins and Loses Wars — and Businesses
Victory Doesn't Go to the Strongest Army. It Goes to the Best Supply Chain.
KEY POINTS
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WWII, the Gulf War, and Ukraine — what each conflict reveals about the relationship between logistics and outcomes
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The modern enterprise as a theater of operations: visibility, tempo, and decisive action
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What great military logisticians understood that most supply chain leaders still don’t
For event planners: The general who wins isn’t the one with the best soldiers. It’s the one who can feed them, fuel them, and resupply them faster than the enemy.
04 / About
"I'm a historian by training: balancing the past against the future is endless fun."
About Dr. Elouise
Bio
Dr. Elouise is a digital futurist and founder of Dr. Elouise LLC, which provides AI training and coaching to procurement and supply chain leaders over 40. She is also an affiliated Kearney partner based in San Francisco, with 26 years of experience as a trusted adviser developing digital procurement and supply chain strategies.
Using her dry wit, historical anecdotes, and a very direct tone, Dr. Elouise is a frequent presenter on building resilient supply chains, digital and AI transformation, and the future of business. She is the creator of the YouTube series 'GenXer vs. GenAI' and co-hosts the weekly podcast DualSourced Discourse.
Who is Elouise
Dr. Elouise holds a master's degree in military history from Norwich University and a PhD in history from Bowling Green State University. "I'm a historian by training, and balancing the past against the future is endless fun to me."
She found procurement by accident: running digital operations for the San Francisco Opera, then joining eBreviate, a B2B dotcom founded by former Kearney partners. "Guess what? It was a procurement-based start-up." She's stayed in the field ever since, teaching, writing, and speaking alongside her client work. On what to expect from her: "I will not show up with half-baked material from five years ago, and I will not show up with over-hyped language or platitudes."
Dr. Elouise is openly a trans woman. "I want to be known for being one of the preeminent experts in my field. If I happen to be transgender, that's great."