Ame Lambert, Ph.D. is the founder of Future Set Thriving and the architect of AI in Our Hands, a community-rooted initiative helping people who have been left out of the AI conversation use AI, shape AI, and make AI. She brings more than two decades of executive leadership in higher education, organizational strategy, equity-centered transformation, and large-scale capacity building. She has led complex, multi-year change efforts at institutions where clarity, courage, and alignment were essential — and has done it with rigor, care, and the kind of directness that actually moves things. Her approach integrates organizational development, adult learning, neuroscience, intercultural leadership, equity practice, and systems thinking. She is as comfortable in a boardroom as she is in a community convening. And she does not separate the personal from the work.