August 2026
Organizational design
AI-native isn't a tool stack. It's an operating model.
Companies keep buying tools and calling it transformation. The real work is deciding which parts of the work should still exist.
Joan Nguyen
I help people workdifferently with AI.
Joan Nguyen is a venture-backed founder, AI builder, and advisor helping founders, executives, and teams turn AI into practical leverage.
AI strategy · Transformation · Education
Hi, I'm Joan.
Joan Nguyen is a venture-backed founder, AI builder, and advisor helping founders, executives, and teams turn AI into practical leverage.
You don't have to be technical to build with AI—but you do have to learn how to think differently about what technology can now do.
She is the founder of Bumo AI, an AI company at the intersection of family and childcare, and has personally vibe coded more than 7 million lines of code. With a background in education and company-building rather than traditional engineering, Joan has developed a unique ability to bridge the gap between rapidly evolving AI technology and the people and organizations trying to put it to work.
Joan is a co-founder of the Kinship AI Fellowship alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Moj Mahdara, and Sarah Willersdorf, and co-founded AI Maxxing, a six-week intensive program helping founders, builders, and creators become dramatically more capable with AI. She has spoken about AI at the Metamorphosis Conference and presented at the AI Demo Summit hosted by True Ventures.
Today, Joan's work focuses on AI transformation: helping leaders identify where AI can create the most leverage, redesign workflows around AI, and give their teams the tools and confidence to actually adopt it. Her particular strength is working with non-technical leaders and teams—translating what's possible with AI into practical systems that save time, increase output, and change how organizations operate.
Founder
Bumo AI
AI at the intersection of family and childcare
Co-founder
Kinship AI Fellowship
With Gwyneth Paltrow, Moj Mahdara & Sarah Willersdorf
Co-founder
AI Maxxing
A six-week AI intensive for founders, builders & creators
Speaker
Metamorphosis Conference & AI Demo Summit
Presented at the True Ventures-hosted summit
Featured
Forbes, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Entrepreneur & goop
Editorial coverage and podcast appearances
Work with Joan
From AI-curiousto AI-native.
Most people already use AI.
Far fewer have redesigned the way they work around it.
That's the gap I work on.
01
AI Transformation
For companies
Rethink how your organization works with AI — from workflows and tools to training, automation, and adoption.
AI strategy · workflow audits · AI adoption · automation · agents · executive education · team training · implementation
02
Private AI Coaching
For executives
Build a personal AI operating system around how you actually work. We examine your meetings, email, research, writing, reporting, communication, decision-making, and repetitive tasks — then redesign them around AI.
1:1 · founders · CEOs · executives · creators
03
Workshops + Training
For teams
Customized AI education designed around the work your team actually does.
leadership teams · functional teams · organization-wide programs
04
Speaking
For events
Keynotes, panels, and executive conversations about AI-native work, organizational transformation, and leadership in the AI era.
keynotes · panels · executive sessions · offsites
AI isn't anothertool to learn.It's a reason to rethinkhow you work.
The biggest opportunity isn't getting your team to use more AI tools. It's questioning the work itself.
- What should humans still do?
- What should AI help us do?
- What should disappear entirely?
- And what can we suddenly do that wasn't possible before?
“Why are we still doing it this way?”
Things I'm thinking about.
July 2026
Leadership
Executive AI literacy is a leadership skill, not a technical one.
Leaders don't need to build agents. They need to know what to stop asking their teams to do by hand.
June 2026
Future of work
The most valuable AI workflow is the one you delete.
Most automation projects preserve a process that shouldn't have survived the audit in the first place.
May 2026
Agents
Agents change delegation before they change productivity.
Once you can hand off a task with clear instructions, you find out how much of your work was never clearly defined.
Let's work together
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