Michael Herman has been an AI consultant and trainer for the past 2+ years and a digital marketing consultant for the past 30 years.

He owns and runs Red Drop Digital in North Phoenix, where he offers a fractional Chief AI Officer service for small businesses.

He has extensive experience with big brands, non-profits, startups, and small businesses, and has been a mentor for startups since 2015.

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Michael's 1:1 coaching sessions most often focus on helping business teams and individual professionals become unstuck in their use of AI.

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He's our team member known for helping people learn to "think in AI," unlocking a whole new world of possibilities in both professional and personal life.

Ian Gatzke is the founder of Implement AI and a leading voice in helping business owners harness the power of artificial intelligence in practical, high-impact ways.

Based in Tempe, Arizona and a graduate of Arizona State University, Ian has built hundreds of custom AI systems for companies across a wide range of industries, including home services, agencies, coaches, brick-and-mortar businesses, podcasters, real estate professionals, and more.

Through his workshops, consulting, and one-on-one advisory work, Ian specializes in helping business owners and professionals identify high-leverage AI use cases that create real operational efficiency, unlock new revenue opportunities, and future-proof their businesses.

He is known for making AI understandable, actionable, and approachable, regardless of someone's technical background. Ian founded Implement AI after building internal AI tools for his own marketing agency and realizing that nearly every business owner he knew was struggling to navigate this new wave of technology. 

Driven by a deep passion for helping entrepreneurs, Ian now dedicates his work to helping leaders confidently use AI to grow, innovate, and stay ahead.

Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ian brings a grounded, personable, and supportive approach to every mentoring conversation, pairing forward-thinking expertise with a genuine desire to help others succeed.

Vincent Serpico is the Founder of the AI Learning Center, where he leads curriculum development and teaches hands-on workshops focused on practical AI applications for business.

With over 30 years bridging the gap between business vision and technical execution, Vincent brings hard-earned wisdom from both sides of the table, both writing code and signing contracts.

A self-taught coder since age 14, Vincent founded and led a 30-person development shop that built over 250 applications for clients across industries. As a serial entrepreneur, he's navigated every major tech shift from the PC revolution to mobile, cloud, and now AI.

Vincent is now focused full-time on AI education, driven by his belief that most people don't need to become AI experts. Instead, they need someone in their corner who already is. He studies AI tools hours a day, seven days a week, so his students don't have to.

At his core, Vincent is passionate about eliminating the lag between AI innovation and adoption, delivering cutting-edge insights with practical, real-world applications.

Sabrina Valdez is the Founder of The Next Move Consulting. She is an AI strategist and advisor who helps companies move from AI experimentation to real operational impact.

Sabrina works with entrepreneurs, founders, and leadership teams to embed AI into the way their business actually runs, from decision making to daily workflows. Rather than approaching AI as a technical initiative, she helps leaders use AI as a strategic thought partner that sharpens judgment, accelerates execution, and drives more consistent, scalable outcomes.

Her work focuses on moving organizations beyond disconnected tools and one-off use cases into structured, repeatable systems. This includes building AI roadmaps, improving team-wide AI literacy, evaluating the right technology stack, and implementing practical workflows that teams can adopt quickly and confidently.

With over 20 years of operating experience in retail and business leadership, Sabrina brings an operator’s perspective to AI. She understands how decisions are made inside organizations and designs solutions that align with how businesses actually function, not how they look on paper.

She is known for making AI approachable, actionable, and immediately valuable. Her philosophy is simple. AI should not sit on the sidelines as a tool. It should be embedded into how a business thinks, operates, and grows.

Lynne Gabrielson is a Scottsdale-based entrepreneur and marketing strategist known for launching Pixie Dust Marketing and Cyren, a luxury pool innovation brand.

With a background in storytelling, brand building, and AI-powered marketing, she turns personal insights into powerful, scalable businesses that blend imagination with intelligent execution.

Lakshya Gupta, 22, is an AI entrepreneur and ASU Computer Science graduate (4.0 GPA, New American University Scholar) building at the intersection of artificial intelligence and consumer products.

After graduation, he ventured into AI entrepreneurship, founding ExecShot and WRIZZ, AI-powered platforms that transform regular selfies into professional-grade portraits. He's become deeply versed in AI video generation for creating ad creatives and marketing automation.

His entrepreneurial journey began early with Udus Technologies, a SaaS platform optimizing vegetable delivery in India, followed by software engineering work at Nosh Technologies during the pandemic, where his contributions to reducing food wastage earned recognition in Business Insider and CNBCTV18.

At ASU, he worked as a researcher at The Luminosity Lab, optimizing a 3D economic simulator of Arizona to run at 60 FPS in web browsers through advanced rendering techniques.

Lakshya has expanded his expertise through contract work building AI SDRs and outreach systems for various clients, and he previously interned at Aveva, where he enhanced UX features using AngularJS. 

His current focus is developing an AI agent specifically designed for scriptwriters, continuing his pattern of applying AI to solve domain-specific creative challenges.

From founding companies to optimizing complex systems, Lakshya combines technical depth with entrepreneurial vision, consistently seeking opportunities to build innovative AI solutions that create real-world impact.

Alex Koupal is an AI Mindset Coach who helps professionals and business owners overcome the fear and overwhelm that often comes with adapting to artificial intelligence.

Having worked closely with entrepreneurs and teams navigating rapid technological change, Alex understands that the biggest barrier to AI adoption isn’t the tools, it’s the mindset.

By helping people build confidence and practical understanding, she unlocks opportunities for them to work smarter, reclaim time, grow their businesses, and create more space for the things that matter most, both at work and at home.

David Rice is the Founder & CEO of LucidWay, an AI and automation consulting firm specializing in supply chain, logistics, and manufacturing operations.

He helps small and mid-sized businesses reduce manual work, improve operational visibility, and implement AI solutions that deliver measurable time and cost savings without overhauling existing systems.

David brings hands-on experience leading supply chain, operations, and transformation initiatives across large organizations, where he drove cross-functional process improvements and operational efficiency at scale.

He now applies that experience to help business owners and operators identify high-impact automation opportunities and turn them into practical, working solutions.

Through his workshops and consulting work, David focuses on making AI approachable and directly applicable, helping operators understand not just what AI can do, but exactly where it fits in their business and how to prioritize it for real ROI.

Daniel William Love is an innovative creative technologist, maker, and media professional specializing in the intersection of emerging technologies, digital creation, and AI-augmented workflows.

He is the founder and driving force behind LittleTown.Pro, a new site focused on business connections, pro resources, and regional pro content amplification.

Daniel pushes forward-thinking approaches to code & content production, blending classical principles with modern generative AI. 

With a strong background in hardware design, interactive electronics, and open-source innovation, Daniel has built a reputation for accessible, modular systems that accelerate creative making. His expertise spans 3D printing, programming, PCB design, and software development, all applied to practical tools for makers and creators.

In media and film, Daniel brings hands-on Hollywood experience in production and performance, contributing to a versatile skill set that informs his teaching in AI-assisted filmmaking, prompting, and post-production.

He maintains an active presence through DanielLove.com, where he shares about his ongoing professional projects. He is passionate about democratizing advanced tech for learners and professionals alike.

Alexander Foster is an AI systems architect and product strategist working at the intersection of AI, automation, and business operations. 

He helps founders and teams turn ideas into working AI products; from custom agents and internal tools to end-to-end automated workflows. His focus is on shipping practical systems, not just talking about AI.

Kathleen Celmins is the founder of Glow Social, a social media service for local service businesses, including the roofers, plumbers, and contractors who are too busy on job sites to worry about Instagram.

After 20+ years in marketing watching great local businesses get buried online by franchise chains with dedicated marketing teams, she decided to fix it.

Using AI as her primary development partner, Kathleen built the entire platform herself: the app, the content engine, the billing infrastructure, all of it, without a dev team or a technical co-founder. 

She also works on AI visibility and answer engine optimization (AEO), helping businesses show up when tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity answer questions about their industry. 

Kathleen teaches from the perspective of a non-engineer who uses AI tools every single day to build, ship, and run a real business, with a focus on what's actually practical versus what's just hype.