Hi Reader, As we rethink everything, let's just go ahead and rethink how we think.
Several women in the She Leads AI community are digging deep into this topic. If you don't follow Vanessa Chang aka Think with V, we highly recommend. Beth Lyons' work on overwhelm and AI. And Devika Toprani brought her cognitive research and recommendations to us at Social Saturday on May 2. (Thank you, Devika!)
Devika made a strong argument for intentional pre-work before getting into it with AI. She opened with a story about her five-year-old self struggling to learn learn math from a textbook — so she took crayons and drew the formulas out. She knew there were a better way - her own way, using her own agency - even then.
Attempt, Map, Refine is Devika's process for arriving at a prompt with a plan.
Attempt: Start messy. Write down at least three things you already know, believe, or have observed about the topic. Don't worry about whether it's correct.
Map: Complete this sentence: Item A connects with Item B because......as you form you own unique idea map before bringing AI into it. Refine: What is the gap between what you know and what you don't? Ask about that gap rather than asking a general question. The output you get will be more precise. More importantly, you'll be equipped to evaluate it.
The companion guide has the framework and every prompt from Saturday.
New programming for She Leads AI Society members (sneak peek - if you're wanting to build a business, level up your marketing, address mindset and leadership in the AI era.....this is your sign). We launch June 1!)
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If you're beginning to explore your next step, use our AI Authority Builder Gem to reindex your lived and career experience, demonstrate how those skills are invaluable in the AI era, brainstorm whether you might be interested in offering AI education or consulting or fractional CAIO or founder.......and get ideas for talks and workshops you could give today based on your background and goals. We love being able to share these resources with you - please let us know how you like them and what else you'd find helpful! Have a beautiful day. Warmly, Anne and Sheila, She Leads AI's Chief of Staff P.S. We're building a matriarchal agentic infrastructure for She Leads AI - if you have the slightest interest in being part of an organization led by humans (of course) and agents, this is that. P.P.S.Join us for a chill conversation about careers in AI and how She Leads AI Academy supports women toward that end!
🗓️ Join us for Social Saturday
Saturday, May 9, 2026 · 10am–noon Pacific · Zoom
The tools are supposed to even the odds. For women and underrepresented workers, they’re reinforcing the same biases in new packaging.
Susi O’Neill leads EVA Digital, helping teams communicate clearly about technology and inclusion in AI. She hosts the Insight Story podcast and writes Rethinking the Hype Cycle — and she was recognized among the top 50 women shaping content strategy.
This Social Saturday, Susi is laying out 8 adoption gaps — the specific places where AI is leaving people behind — and what leaders and practitioners can do to close them.
Come away with:
-The 8 adoption gaps mapped out and why they exist
-Practical steps your team can take to close them
If you’ve been questioning why the tools aren’t doing what they were supposed to, this is the session where it gets said directly.
FREE She Leads AI Social Saturday is made possible by members of the She Leads AI Society - together, we go far.
Gather With Us Saturday - Register at SheLeadsAI.ai
Social Saturday is supported by the She Leads AI Society.
📢 She Leads AI Society Members Making an Impact
Sabrina Ramonov is a visionary AI Architect, Serial Entrepreneur, and Educator with over 13 years of expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP), speech recognition, and automation.As the founder of Blotato, she leads the charge in democratizing AI for creators and small businesses, scaling the platform to over 10,000 operators.A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Ramonov successfully exited her first AI venture, Qurious, to Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA).Her current mission is to teach 10 million people to master AI, leveraging a massive organic following and advanced automation frameworks (n8n, MCP) to bridge the gap between technical complexity and practical business impact.
Laura Lynch is a high-impact executive at Wells Fargo, currently serving as the Executive Vice President (EVP) and Head of Strategy & Transformation for Consumer & Small Business Banking. With over 25 years of experience in the financial services sector, she is a specialist in navigating complex organizational change, scaling digital operations, and implementing AI-driven customer experience strategies. Lynch is recognized for her ability to bridge the gap between traditional banking legacy systems and future-state technology, ensuring Wells Fargo remains competitive in a rapidly evolving fintech landscape.
Tatiana Dominguez is a dynamic AI Strategist, Growth Architect, and the Founder of Spark Hive. With a career defined by high-velocity business scaling and digital transformation, she specializes in helping companies transition from traditional workflows to AI-augmented operations. At Spark Hive, she leads a strategic consultancy that empowers entrepreneurs to leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) and automation to reclaim time and increase revenue. Dominguez is recognized for her "human-first" approach to AI,
🖋️ Our Featured Artist(s)
We are excited to be currently featuring artwork from The Yellow Muse Zine, a monthly creative challenge series.
This week's piece comes from Andrea Tomasoni. Andrea is an Italian visual artist working with generative AI to explore photography and cinematic storytelling. Largely self-taught, she approaches AI not as a tool but as a medium requiring intention and authorship — building structured prompts and carefully controlling light, texture, and perspective to create images that feel believable yet subtly unsettling. Her work moves between reality and imagination, developing a personal visual language where hyper-realistic photographic credibility meets the quietly impossible.
Paint the Town Red, by Andrea Tomasoni
🎙️ AI Readiness Project
How AI is Changing Design Thinking, with Sumin Chou
Sumin Chou has spent 25+ years shaping digital products for some of the most recognizable names in media and retail — The New York Times, Neiman Marcus, CBS Interactive. Now, as Managing Partner at Schema, he's asking a question that every designer and product leader needs to sit with: when AI handles execution, what does human design judgment actually do?
In this episode, Kyle Shannon and Anne Murphy talk with Sumin about where design thinking holds its ground, what organizations consistently get wrong about AI and UX, and how to build a practice that keeps strategy — not tools — at the center.
If you work in design, lead teams who do, or are trying to make sense of what responsible AI interfaces even look like, this one is worth your full attention.
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