Helping firms confidently adopt AI through customized First Steps, training, and change management.
I am a techno-optimist and AI enthusiast.
Ready to talk about AI?
My perspective and intelligence is unique. I understand the tech and am passionate about it.
Plus, I have decades of business experience. I know how AI can and will impact every employee, every client, and every aspect of your operations.
I am also a marketer, which means I know how to communicate complex topics and roll out change management.
It's the trifecta jackpot you need in a consultant to integrate AI successfully into your workplace.
At my core…
I am an idea champion, a momentum cheerleader, a creative over-producer, and fiercely protective of time, talent, and resources. I live for results.
With over 25 years of marketing and leadership experience at all levels and in a variety of industries, my ability to integrate different thinking styles creates a cohesive balance of the big picture with essential details.
I admit that I have a weird brain. I am most successful working on action-oriented projects that allow me to merge highly creative ideas and methodical approaches.
“What’s next is now.”
~Kristin
I have proudly worked with
Project Mark
The AI IQ Community
I get asked the same questions over and over: "How can I understand AI without drowning in noise?" "Where do I start?" "Who can I follow to stay ahead?"
My answer? I launched the best, most comprehensive online cohort – and you NEED to be in this.
AI IQ is my no-fluff, high-impact, members-only resource hub that is designed to give you the insights, strategies, courses, updates, advice, tools, and demos you need (and have been asking for). It is updated several times a week. If I know it, I want you to know it.
I PROMISE
you won’t hear what I have
to say from anyone else.
I believe AI should empower, not intimidate. I deliver clear, honest guidance with no fear tactics and no vague advice. If I mention a tool or technique, you’ll find direct links, step-by-step instructions, and practical examples so you can apply what you learn right away. My goal is to share what I know—transparently and enthusiastically—so that you feel confident and informed, equipped with the right knowledge to take action and succeed.
Over 150 seminars and 20 AI consulting clients in 3 years!
My mission is to ignite and energize people, teams, and firms by empowering you with AI knowledge, building a community of AI enthusiasts, and sparking innovation through accessible AI resources. This is the least advanced you or AI will ever be!
How I Work With You:
Roadmap --> Activation --> Expansion --> Momentum
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AI Leadership Training
We need leadership buy-in. This isn’t just another AI talk. Kristin Lynn Kautz is known for her honesty, transparency, high energy (!), and, most importantly, her practical, real-world approach. She cuts through the noise and hype to deliver insights you can actually use. Kristin will not only show you what’s possible—she’ll excite you to move past the inertia and fear that’s holding your firm back. This session is designed specifically for your leaders to explore AI in a grounded, thoughtful, and actionable way. Whether you have no idea about AI, you are just beginning, or you are trying to move from random and scattered experimentation to results-driven execution, you’ll see:
• A seismic shift in your mindset
• A clear understanding of how we got here and how AI is showing up today
• Real-world examples to define your own use cases and the AI options you have
• Actionable insights to get started
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Core Team AI Accelerator
AEC firms often fail to get started on AI because no one truly “owns” the transformation, you underestimate the monumental mindset shift needed in your culture, and accountability tends to diffuse because your employees are already too busy to successfully take on an initiative of this size and importance. By identifying a Core Team of early adopters, we are creating champions who generate momentum through visible internal success. Early adopters are key to bringing along the rest of the employees as it pertains to tech implementation. The Core Team gets you moving.
• Training (24-course Minds & Machines Series)
• Weekly 1-hour guided transformation sessions with group - deep dives into workflows, AI tool testing, and role evolution
• Individual mentorship - 1:1 access to Kristin via email/call for mentoring and accountability
• Asynchronous micro-assignments between sessions
• Access to AI Role Evolution daily challenges
• Team charter
• Shared AI adoption tracker
• Final presentation/report at the end of the cohort
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AI First Steps
We collect data through a variety of formats to better understand the organization from a larger perspective that includes feedback from multiple sources such as an all-staff survey. The better we know you, the better we can provide a framework that respects the culture, history, uniqueness, and goals of your firm. This helps us, as a team, come up with ideal solutions. What It Includes:
1. Needs assessment
2. Formulate a clear AI theme, goals, objectives, and tracking
3. Develop oversight and viability
4. Develop use cases and validity
5. Develop your schedule
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Firm-Wide Training, Specific Group Training, and Workshops
Once the Core Team is modeling adoption, we can expand AI education to the rest of the firm. We conduct seminars and workshops to enhance AI literacy across your organization and build internal AI competencies to reinforce a culture of innovation. Programs can be tailored to address different proficiency levels, adoption rates, needs, and even AI personalities (like openness and ability to embrace change). We can work with you on discounted pricing if you want us to deliver a full agenda of seminars. Topics include:
• AI 101 (firm-wide foundation)
• Data Privacy, Security, and Ownership in AI Applications
• Illuminating AI Applications (These seminars can be tailored based on the group’s particular needs. For example, “AI in AEC,” AI in Business Development,” “AI in Marketing,” “AI in HR,” etc.)
• AI in Project Management
• ChatGPT Demonstrations including Assistants/GPTs and Agents
• Setting the Foundation for AI: Microsoft Copilot & AEC Data Security
• Firm-Wide Operational Shifts
• Industry Updates and Collaborations
AI Strategist | Consultant | Speaker | Trainer |
AI Strategist | Consultant | Speaker | Trainer |
Kristin Kautz, FSMPS, CPSM is a nationally recognized expert in artificial intelligence strategy and digital transformation, with a deep understanding of its implications for the built environment including development, banking, architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). As a Fellow of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (FSMPS) and a Certified Professional Services Marketer (CPSM), she has spent her career at the intersection of technology, business strategy, and industry leadership.
She specializes in AI education, change management, and strategic implementation (AI First Steps), helping firms navigate both the opportunities and challenges AI presents. Her Minds & Machines symposiums, AI in Action workshops, AI IQ Community, and AI consulting services are designed to equip firms with the knowledge and frameworks they need to integrate AI effectively and competitively.
Kristin is known for her no-nonsense, direct, insightful approach—cutting through the hype to deliver practical, industry-specific strategies. Her work goes beyond tools and trends; she also focuses on the bigger operational shifts AI is bringing to firms, from decision-making and workforce transformation to contracts and value differentiators.
With a true talent for making complex topics accessible and actionable, Kristin's infectious techno-optimism will inspire you to think critically, act now, and stay ahead.
Thank you!
THE LATEST
Check out my latest online seminar: AI Without The Overwhelm. To access the full 60-minutes, contact JOIST.AI