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AI-Enabled Innovation

AI-Enabled Innovation

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Leadership Summary

What this area means in my work.

Leon approaches AI as a practical leadership tool for service, governance, student support, and operational improvement. His focus is responsible adoption: useful, governed, inclusive, and connected to real institutional problems.

Capability Focus

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These pages translate the homepage capability blocks into a practical account of the work: what changed, how the work moved, and why it mattered for institutional strength.

What I Did

Built the capability in real institutional settings.

  • Advanced AI-enabled support concepts including chatbots, AI video, prompt design, grassroots adoption, and service intelligence.
  • Connected AI innovation to governance, equity, student experience, and workforce readiness.
  • Helped frame AI as a present-day operating capability rather than a distant trend.

How I Did It

Moved from strategy to execution.

  • Identified repeatable service problems, built knowledge foundations, selected tools pragmatically, tested with users, and refined quickly.
  • Paired AI adoption with governance: human review, transparency, training, data awareness, and bias-conscious implementation.
  • Encouraged bottom-up experimentation while keeping alignment with institutional strategy.

Proof Points

Grounded evidence from the career record.

  • 45-day delivery: Designed and launched Help@ShawU as a 24/7 AI-powered support channel early in his Shaw University CIO tenure.
  • Service design: Connected web support, phone integration, and automatic ticket creation so AI fed the operating model instead of sitting outside it.
  • Roadmap discipline: Developed a plan to extend AI support across more than 20 administrative workflows including financial aid, registrar services, student accounts, advising, and admissions.

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AI-Powered Chatbots at Shaw in 45 DaysBottom-Up AI Grassroots StrategyResearch