01 / BRIEF
Executive Brief on Meaning Repair Under AI Pressure
A 1-to-2-hour briefing for senior leadership on how meaning drift is showing up in your organization's relationship with AI. Customized to your context.
Independent advisory
Meaning is the infrastructure your team runs on.
Teams don't usually fail from missing information. They fail when key terms quietly mean different things to different people, and the gap stays hidden until something breaks. AI is the current stress test for almost every team I work with. I help leaders in districts, colleges, and workforce systems detect those gaps early and rebuild the shared meaning their teams need to operate well under pressure.
Doctorate
Ed.D. — USC Rossier
Organizational Change & Leadership
Organizational Change & Leadership
Service
U.S. Marine Corps
23 Years · Master Sergeant (Ret.)
23 Years · Master Sergeant (Ret.)
Teaching
UC Irvine
Division of Continuing Education
Division of Continuing Education
Research
Six SSRN Papers
Published Author
Published Author
What I do
Four ways to work together.
Each engagement is built around a single question: where is shared meaning breaking down, and what does the team need to keep working well? The answer comes back as an executive briefing, a diagnostic, a workshop, or a months-long advisory engagement, depending on what the organization needs.
02 / DIAGNOSE
AI Readiness Diagnostic & Executive Briefing
A four-to-six-week structured assessment of your organization's AI exposure, governance gaps, and adoption readiness. Closes with a 90-minute leadership briefing.
03 / FACILITATE
AI Readiness Workshop for Senior Leaders
A half-day, full-day, or 10-week pilot scenario-based workshop grounded in published research on team coordination and meaning under pressure. Built to fit the room.
04 / ADVISE
Fractional AI Readiness Advisor
A standing advisory relationship for organizations that need senior thinking on AI strategy without funding a full-time hire. Three to six month engagement.
AI tools are arriving faster than the language people use to talk about them. The work is to slow the conversation just enough to keep teams aligned on what they actually mean.— From the working framework, currently in development for journal submission
Who this is for
Education, workforce systems, and the people training their teams.
The buyers I serve sit one or two steps inside organizations that are trying to do something hard with limited time. Department heads, curriculum directors, workforce-board staff, college deans, philanthropy program officers, founders of veteran-service organizations, and the L&D and OD practitioners building communication infrastructure inside mid-size organizations.
K–12 Districts
Curriculum and PD teams responsible for AI integration. Help with rollout design, teacher readiness, and the governance conversation that has to happen before tools land in classrooms.
Community Colleges
Workforce divisions and academic affairs leadership facing AI's impact on degree programs, student services, and the labor markets graduates are entering.
Workforce & Veteran Systems
Workforce development boards, sector partnerships, and veteran-service organizations preparing the people they serve for AI-affected jobs and pathways.
L&D and OD Practitioners
Learning and development and organizational development leaders building communication infrastructure inside mid-size organizations, especially those integrating AI into established training programs and team workflows.
Writing & research
The work that backs the practice.
Every engagement draws from published research, working frameworks, and a weekly editorial practice on Substack. Recent work has been presented at the University of Oxford and downloaded more than 6,300 times across six SSRN papers. The thinking is open. The proof artifacts are linked below.
Substack
What Time Binds
Weekly essays on AI, meaning, and the work of teams that have to operate well under pressure. Free and paid tiers.
Meaning Repair as Cognitive Infrastructure
Scoping review of 131 sources across eight disciplines. Currently being prepared for journal submission.
Simulated Realities
Generative AI and the remanufacture of professionalism. Published 2023. Available on Amazon.
Who I work with
The people I build and refer with.
I keep my practice small and my referral list smaller. A few independent practitioners share my standards and cover ground I don't. When a project needs a lens I don't carry, I send it to someone I trust to do the work right.
Jovanny A. Suriel, Ed.D.
Jovanny works on misalignment: the gap between what an organization says it values and how it actually operates. Who advances, who belongs, who gets quietly sorted out. His doctoral research at USC traced that gap to the unwritten standards organizations enforce but never name. He runs an independent advisory practice and writes The Unstated, a weekly essay on those standards and the people they shape.
Our practices run in parallel. We refer clients to each other and built a shared framework on meaning repair under pressure. Our first co-authored essay, "The Word That Sorts Without Saying," launches June 2, 2026, with a cross-post on What Time Binds.
Start here
A 30-minute call. No charge. No pressure.
If you have an AI readiness question your team is sitting on, walk me through it. I will tell you what I see, what I would do first, and whether the work fits any of the engagement formats. If it does not, I will tell you that too.
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