KATEMARSHALL
Kate Marshall helps organizations adopt AI without turning it into another project their teams have to figure out. She trains executives, HR leaders, and non-technical teams to use current AI tools with the governance, readiness, and security habits that make adoption stick.
What we
work on together
Core training and advisory areas, from understanding AI tools to building governance frameworks that last.
SERVICES
Bring practical, safe, and usable AI to your team.
1:1 Executive Coaching
Personalized, one-on-one guidance to help leaders and operators get unstuck fast. Each session focuses on your real challenges, builds practical habits, and delivers results.
Learn MoreTeam Workshops
Hands-on, customized workshops designed around your team's actual work. Teams leave aligned, confident, and equipped with tools they are ready to use immediately.
Learn MoreFractional CAIO Partner
An ongoing partnership to embed AI into how your organization operates. Leadership alignment, roadmaps, team enablement, and sustained support for real adoption.
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The person
behind the work
Kate Marshall is a fractional CAIO who helps organizations adopt AI with strong governance, workforce readiness, and practical support. She spent 18 years at the SANS Institute , leading Summits creating rapid-response training for emerging cybersecurity threats, curriculum marketing strategy, and courseware development. Kate launched SANS' first AI Task Force and the first AI Hackathon to help the organization move from experimentation to operational value. That background shaped how she works today: people, training, and governance first, not tools.
Today, she partners with HR leaders, executives, and non-technical teams to translate AI into everyday workflows, policies, and training that people actually use. Kate is the Founder of TheGrai, supporting leaders and teams with custom training and workshops, and a SHRM Instructor teaching their AI+HI program.
What breaks when AI meets real organizations: risk, privacy, shadow tools, and weak ownership.
Workforce readiness, policy people will follow, and the change work that training alone cannot do.
What is real, what is hype, and what non-technical teams can use safely this quarter.
Getting executives, HR, and operators onto the same AI practices so the tools do not fragment the company.
Kate was absolutely fabulous. Walking into this program I had very little knowledge on AI. Walking out of this program I feel empowered to share what I have learned with my work team and am excited for our AI adventures ahead.
Kate's 1:1s walking through my workflows using AI saved me hours and made leading easier. I can attribute an ROI of at least $4 million in the last year to reducing hiring needs, transforming to an AI-first team and creating efficiencies, all thanks to my work with Kate.
Timely in addressing the real challenges HR leaders face today, informative without being overwhelming... It gave me practical tools I could apply immediately. This program didn't just add value. It elevated my leadership.