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Valerie Ehrlich

Valerie Ehrlich

Valerie Ehrlich, PhD, is the founder and principal consultant of Mission Bloom, helping nonprofits and foundations adopt AI responsibly, with a background in social psychology and 20 years in learning and evaluation.

Sep 17, 2026

10:08
What would, what do you , I hate the word recommend because it's always it depends, but, you know, how should we be thinking about incorporating AI or not, or, like, leveraging this to increase the value that we bring to organizations rather than just think about like, "Okay, is it me or is it AI?"
10:28
Yeah.
10:29
Yeah.
10:29
So I think there's lots of different ways to think about it.
10:33
Uh, and one of the things that we can do is think about, is this client-facing work, or is this, like, non-client, like, my backend sort of office work? And really getting clear on, like, the, the problem you're trying to solve and the value proposition.
10:50
So, you know, if you know, "I don't want to use AI to generate reports or, you know, emails or stuff like that," then don't, don't use it for that.
11:00
Uh, and look at, like, take a step back and say, "Where are my actual pain points in my process? Am I really...
15:54
What else? What are some sort of things that we should absolutely avoid?

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