As a senior operator, you're not setting AI strategy from a distance — you're the one it lands on. The legal exposure, the workforce disruption, the governance gaps, the impossible pace. You're absorbing all of it.
And yet the forums that exist for this — industry events, vendor briefings, broad peer groups — tend to reward polished takes over real ones. Nobody talks about what's actually failing, what they don't know, or what's keeping them up at night.
The AI Operators Exchange was built to be that conversation.
The pressure to move fast is real. So is the complexity of doing it responsibly. Most organizations are caught between the two — and the people navigating that tension rarely get to talk to each other honestly.
The AI Operators Exchange is a structured peer conversation — not a conference, not a panel, not a webinar. A small, vetted group of practitioners who meet monthly to share what's actually happening and help each other think it through.
The AI Operators Exchange isn't a library of solutions. It's a peer group that helps you think through problems that don't have clean answers yet — and connect with others navigating the same terrain.
This is not a group for executives who set AI strategy from a distance. It's for the senior practitioners absorbing the complexity — and who want to navigate it with peers doing the same.
This group works because everyone in it is actively navigating the same terrain and willing to be honest about it. While we may bring in subject matter experts or advisors who can inform our conversation, this group is generally not for AI vendors, consultants, or anyone hoping to observe without contributing.
Jory Des Jardins has spent her career building communities at the intersection of technology and systems change. She co-founded BlogHer, one of the first large-scale media and community networks for women, establishing best practices and a working model for the creator economy, and has spent the years since working with leaders navigating significant transitions — professional, organizational, and cultural, in cloud computing, blockchain, and AI.
Through Optionality, she works with individuals navigating career inflection points across an increasingly complex Future of Work terrain — helping them adopt new tools and frameworks that enable transformation and human agency. Through Candor Partners, she advises organizations on GTM and narrative strategy and the human dimensions of change at scale.
The AI Operators Exchange came out of a pattern she kept encountering: smart, senior practitioners running hard through genuinely difficult terrain, with nowhere to surface what was actually hard. She started the group to fix that — and to be in the conversation herself.
Membership is by invitation and application. Tell us about your role, the challenges you're currently navigating, and why this group feels like the right fit. We'll review submissions and follow up directly.
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