My Resource Hub
Here you’ll find tools, frameworks, and recommendations I use and trust for AI transformation and leadership development. This isn’t an affiliate link farm - these are tools I actually use, and a few I’ve tried and walked away from.
AI Tools & Platforms
Claude AI - My primary AI thinking partner for strategic work, content refinement, and reality-checking catastrophic thoughts. Better for nuanced conversation than quick answers. I use it daily for everything except the actual thinking.
Perplexity AI - Research and staying current on AI trends. Fast, cited, useful for gathering context before client calls.
ChatGPT - I use it occasionally for specific tasks, but prefer Claude’s conversational depth for the work I do. Your mileage may vary.
Notion AI - Integrated AI for quick drafts and database queries. Useful but not essential.
What I don’t use: Third-party AI writing tools that flatten voice. If it sounds like “AI wrote this,” I’m not interested.
Content & Productivity
Substack - Where I publish Notes daily and long-form weekly. Home base for my archive and anyone who prefers email over LinkedIn noise.
LinkedIn - Primary distribution for reaching HR leaders, founders, and operations people. I run Creator Mode with targeted hashtags (#AIAdoption, #OrganizationalCulture, #ChangeManagement). Newsletter lives here too.
Google Workspace - Client collaboration, document sharing, the boring essentials that actually matter.
Notion - Content creation and knowledge management. Where I organize thoughts, build client frameworks, and keep my stuff together.
Shortform - Book summary service. Faster than reading full books when you need the core frameworks quickly. I use this for staying current on leadership and transformation literature without drowning in reading lists.
Buffer - Social media scheduling. Keeps me consistent without living in the apps.
Typeform - Client assessments and diagnostics. Clean, professional, gets the data I need.
Leadership & Transformation Frameworks
Fogg Behavior Model - Behavior = Motivation × Ability × Prompt. Essential for understanding why AI adoption stalls. If you’re not using this, you’re guessing.
SCARF Model (Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness) - Neuroscience-based framework for understanding resistance. When people say “I don’t trust AI,” they’re usually saying “this threatens my status/certainty/autonomy.” SCARF helps you hear what’s actually being said.
Polyvagal Theory / Nervous System Work - Threat response patterns show up in organizations just like they do in individuals. My “catch it, name it, choose something different” framework comes from this foundation.
Founder Identity Work - The research on how founder role identity evolves through transitions. The evolution of founder identity as an authenticity work process.
Books & Research
AI + Leadership / Strategy
Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI - How humans and AI share work. Essential for understanding the division of labor that actually works, not the theoretical fluff most consultants sell.
The AI Advantage: How to Put the AI Revolution to Work - For talking credibly with execs about value and risk without sounding like you just read a McKinsey deck.
AI + Humanity / Ethics
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans or Life 3.0 - Big-picture, human-centric frames. Useful when clients need to zoom out from “which tool should we buy” to “what are we actually doing here.”
Digital Communication / Remote Leadership
Digital Body Language - How trust and connection work in virtual, AI-mediated environments. Relevant for distributed teams trying to adopt AI tools without losing the human signals that make collaboration work.
Leadership Identity & Storytelling
Unlock Your Leadership Story by Pat Wadors - How leaders build understanding and motivate teams through narrative. Particularly relevant for executives navigating the identity shift that comes with AI transformation - when your old story about “what makes me valuable” stops working.
Research I Reference
If your consultant can’t point you to peer-reviewed studies on transformation failure rates, identity work, and behavior change, they’re selling vibes. I pull from organizational behavior research, transformation psychology, and AI implementation failure analysis. Ask me for specific citations - I’ve got them.
Professional Support
Therapy - Weekly. Part of my founder toolkit and part of why I can do this work with clients without projecting my own stuff onto them.
Vedic Meditation - Daily practice since 2018. Twenty minutes twice a day. Non-negotiable for maintaining clarity and not losing my mind as a founder.
Human Design - I know my chart, reference it occasionally, don’t build my life around it. Useful lens, not gospel.
What I’ve Tried and Walked Away From
AI transcription tools - Tried several, accuracy wasn’t worth the workflow disruption. I write the way I think.
Project management platforms (Asana, Monday, etc.) - Overcomplicated for a solo consultant. Notion does what I need without the enterprise bloat.
LinkedIn automation tools - Tried them early on. Made my engagement feel performative. Deleted. If I’m commenting, it’s because I have something to say.
This page updates as I test new tools and frameworks. All recommendations reflect my actual use and align with my values: authenticity, data ownership, and keeping humans in the middle of the work.