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Founder & Chief AI Adoption Officer

Here's what nobody tells you about AI in the enterprise: The technology works. Your people don't trust it.

Chris served as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota's Ethics Officer while simultaneously leading Learning and Communications across six subsidiary organizations covering 5,000 employees. He has spent his career on exactly this tension: how do you get people and leadership to adopt systems that feel like black boxes? Before BCBS, he re-established 3M's enterprise leadership development program training every supervisor company-wide, and scaled Kaplan University's online education from standing up to $33.5M across 30 regulated industry verticals.

Twenty-five years of making skeptical humans adopt new technology taught him something most AI consultants miss: Implementation isn't technical. It's cultural.

Research from MIT, McKinsey, BCG, and Gartner converges on something Chris has practiced for decades: successful AI (system) adoption requires establishing a shared ethical framework before rolling out the technology. This collective agreement (where your organization decides together what AI means to you, how you'll use it responsibly, and what boundaries matter) is what transforms resistance into trust.

At Hewman.ai, we don't just talk about "human-centered AI." We facilitate the ethical frameworks that drive adoption success. We prepare workforces, build the L&D and change infrastructure that makes new technology stick, and manage the cultural transformation that technical consultants skip. You can buy the best AI system in the world, but if your people don't trust it, you just bought expensive software.

We bridge the gap between what AI can do and what your organization will actually do with it.