
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.
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Sep 17, 2026
E10: Using AI as a Consultant Without Losing Client Trust - Valerie Ehrlich
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Cindy WagmanHOST
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?"

Valerie EhrlichGUEST
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.

Valerie EhrlichGUEST
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.

Valerie EhrlichGUEST
Uh, and look at, like, take a step back and say, "Where are my actual pain points in my process? Am I really...