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Jul 26, 2026
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Kat Kemner
Agent Builder for Microsoft
Human-centered AI adoption for non-technical leaders.
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The Why
Belong. Believe. Become.
I lead with empathy to create spaces where people come as they are and find belonging, freeing them to believe in themselves and become unstoppable.
About
Hi, I'm Kat, your partner in human-centered AI.
Kat's work sits where AI meets people: HR, enterprise transformation, and real adoption. The job is to turn new technology into clear workflows, confident teams, and results the business can measure. She leads the Agent Practice for Simplicity Consulting (serving Microsoft), oversees other agent builders, and is embedded within Microsoft's team.
She has supported teams to implement and enable AI and agents across Big Tech, Big Four Consulting, Autonomous Mobility, Workforce Solutions, Healthcare Technology, Regulated Financial Services, Big Pharma, and Entertainment. Her enterprise experience spans the full lifecycle of AI, including consulting, workflow redesign, custom agent builds, implementation support, curriculum design, course material development, content audits, and live training sessions.
Kat founded Empaithy LLC and leads the Cincinnati Chapter for AI-Powered Women, a global leadership and workforce readiness platform anchored at MIT.
Top Skills
Where strategy, people, and AI meet.
- 01Business Strategy
- 02Creative Problem Solving
- 03Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- 04Agentic AI
- 05Training & Development
- 06Technology Adoption
- 01
Women + AI Is a Competitive Advantage
Look Beneath the Surface
Women are 47% of the U.S. workforce but 83% of the workers in the jobs most exposed to AI. The easy read is that women have the most to lose. This talk argues the opposite. The roles most at risk run on exactly the skills AI needs most: empathy, context, reading people, knowing how work actually gets done. Drawing on close to a year of building AI agents inside one of the largest tech companies in the world, this keynote shows why empathy is not a soft skill in the AI era but a technical one, and why the people closest to the work are the ones companies should be building with, not laying off.
- 02
What If AI Makes Us More Human, Not Less?
The fear about AI is that it costs us our humanity. Less empathy. Less connection. Less of the messy real stuff between people. This talk makes the opposite case. AI doesn't erase the human touch. It removes the limits that have always held our empathy back: fatigue, bias, the way we care deeply about one person and go numb to a million. Drawing on research and my own work building AI, this keynote shows where AI can carry the weight our emotional hardware was never built to hold, and just as important, which parts of being human should stay untouched. The goal is not better AI. It is better humans.
- 03
What If AI Makes Us More Human, Not Less?
The fear about AI is that it costs us our humanity. Less empathy. Less connection. Less of the messy real stuff between people. This talk makes the opposite case. AI doesn't erase the human touch. It removes the limits that have always held our empathy back: fatigue, bias, the way we care deeply about one person and go numb to a million. Drawing on research and my own work building AI, this keynote shows where AI can carry the weight our emotional hardware was never built to hold, and just as important, which parts of being human should stay untouched. The goal is not better AI. It is better humans.
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The ABC Method: AI Implementation Made Simple
Everyone wants to start with the build. That is the mistake. You start with the audit. Work backward from the outcome the business wants. Weigh the value, the risk, the readiness. Pick the highest-return bets and break them into wins small enough to reach. Then you build. And to build, you have to break. Take the workflow apart. What step disappears. What stays human. What an agent can own. You do not bolt AI onto a broken process. You redesign it. Then you champion. The work does not end when the agent ships. It ends when your people reach for it without being told. Audit. Build. Champion. The only method that survives a real team.
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AI for Non-Tech Professionals
Upskilling, Career Transitions & Job Search
My career didn't follow a straight line: brand management, then HR technology, then building AI agents. Every skill I use now, I built somewhere that didn't look like tech. If you're a woman in a career change, or wondering where you fit in the AI age, this is for you. The roles no one called technical taught you the skills this era needs most. You don't have to start over, and you don't have to become someone else to belong here. You pair what you already have with what these tools can do. You need a place to start, not a finished plan.
NewInteractiveMasterclass
Between You & AI: A Practical Masterclass
A practical mini masterclass on how to use AI in everyday work and life. I'll share simple examples, live demonstrations, useful routines, and honest lessons from what has worked for me and what has not.
01 · Habits
- The most useful ways to use AI in your daily work
- Top prompt writing tips
- How to limit AI hallucinations
- How to make AI write more like you
02 · Tools
- Which AI tools are best for different tasks
- Demos of personal productivity routines you can copy
03 · Learnings
- The best lessons I have learned from working with 9+ Fortune Global 500 companies
- My own AI failures, what they taught me, and how to avoid them
Outcome → Leave with a personal playbook for how to use AI for personal productivity.
NewInteractiveMasterclass
How to Build an AI Agent for Non-Technical Professionals
A beginner-friendly workshop on what AI agents are, how they work, and how to build a simple one from start to finish. No coding experience required.
01 · Basics
- What an AI agent is
- How agents are different from chatbots
- The basic parts of an agent
- Common ways people use agents
02 · Build
- How to choose a simple task for your agent
- How to give your agent clear instructions
- How to connect tools, information, and actions
- A live demo of building a basic agent
03 · Learnings
- Common beginner mistakes
- How to test whether your agent works
- How to improve accuracy and reliability
- When to use an agent and when not to
Outcome → Leave with a simple AI agent you understand, can test, and can continue improving.
Word on the street
What participants are saying.
“Workshop format was really helpful – I had expected that it was going to be a passive format but the engagement of the entire group really helped make my experience fuller and more three-dimensional.”
Workshop participant
“The presenter was really enthusiastic and helpful. The structure made sense and it showed the potential of AI and some clear use cases. In addition to the prompts on the presentation, the presenter often had great inside tips and prompting…”
Workshop participant
“This has been really great. thank you so so so much!!!!”
Workshop participant
“Thanks very much. you are an excellent presenter”
Workshop participant
“Finally, I was able to take this workshop. Katarina was very patient and knowledgeable.”
Workshop participant
“thank you, loved the simplicity and clarity!”
Workshop participant
“love all the steps and prompts!!!”
Workshop participant
“Workshop format was really helpful – I had expected that it was going to be a passive format but the engagement of the entire group really helped make my experience fuller and more three-dimensional.”
Workshop participant
“The presenter was really enthusiastic and helpful. The structure made sense and it showed the potential of AI and some clear use cases. In addition to the prompts on the presentation, the presenter often had great inside tips and prompting…”
Workshop participant
“This has been really great. thank you so so so much!!!!”
Workshop participant
“Thanks very much. you are an excellent presenter”
Workshop participant
“Finally, I was able to take this workshop. Katarina was very patient and knowledgeable.”
Workshop participant
“thank you, loved the simplicity and clarity!”
Workshop participant
“love all the steps and prompts!!!”
Workshop participant
Values
The compass behind the work.
Empathy
Leading with empathy means listening first, understanding what people need, and creating space for others to feel seen, heard, and valued.
Belonging
People do their best work when they can come as they are and know they have a place.
Self-Belief
Growth starts when people begin to trust their own voice, capability, and potential.
Becoming
Becoming is the ongoing process of growth, change, and stepping into what is possible.
Courage
Meaningful change takes courage: the courage to challenge the ordinary, try something new, and lead before the path is perfectly clear.
Where Kat is Featured
Insights in the wild.
Course Report
AI in the Workplace: 3 Practical Ways to Boost Your Productivity and Skills
Course Report
How to Write Better AI Prompts with the PARR Framework
Simplicity Consulting
Copilot Agents Explained: FAQs for Smarter AI Operations
Medium
What If AI Makes Us More Human, Not Less?
Medium
Attention is All We Need — Just Ask Mary Oliver
Between You & AI
Women and AI: From Most Vulnerable to Most Valuable
Kat's Methodology
AI implementation feels impossible. It doesn't have to. That's why The ABC method© was created.
Audit.
Outcome based agent design.
Work backward to understand the outcomes the business is striving to achieve. Understand the possibilities and their value, feasibility, risk, data and team readiness. Based on the highest AI ROI, agree on long term bets, and break them down into short-term wins to get there.
Build.
Break it to build it.
Rethink workflows with AI in mind: which steps can you eliminate, which steps should humans own, what can agents own, and where is a hybrid approach best. Create an ongoing governance and operating model. Outcome: Redesigned workflows & agentic solutions.
Champion.
Upskill your team with interactive training.
Keep them up to speed with ongoing micro-trainings. Pair it with a communication plan that grabs attention and cuts through the noise. Track adoption and adjust as needed.
Frameworks
R.A.C.E. to ROI.
A framework created to drive AI adoption in enterprise organizations. Shared during a Fortune 20 AI & Agent Training, and featured in an article by Course Report.
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