STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS FOR AI TRANSFORMATION
A FIXED-SCOPE AUDIT, WORKING SESSION, AND COMMUNICATIONS PLAN FOR LEADERSHIP TEAMS MOVING ON AI
The Challenge
Most communications functions are behind on AI. Current research finds that 68% of chief communications officers describe their own function as an "AI laggard," and 88% say they're not fully prepared to lead an AI transformation internally.
That gap doesn't stay theoretical. It becomes a real cost the first time a board member, employee, investor, or reporter asks a direct question about how your organization is actually using AI — and the answer isn't ready.
What's Included
This engagement is built to close that gap quickly, not to open a long consulting relationship. It starts with a structured audit of how your organization currently talks — or doesn't — about its AI adoption, across board materials, employee communications, marketing, and public-facing statements. From there, a half-day working session with leadership pressure-tests the messaging and surfaces the real risks: regulatory exposure, credibility gaps, internal confusion. The engagement ends with a concise, board-ready communications plan your team can act on immediately.
Areas of Support
AI governance communications for boards and executive teams
Employee-facing messaging around AI adoption and change management
Marketing and investor materials review for AI-related overstatement risk
Regulatory-aware language for AI claims and disclosures
Crisis-readiness for hard questions from investors, employees, or the press
Framing informed by Wharton AI Strategy & Governance credentials
Who This Is For
Leadership teams that have decided to adopt AI and haven't yet built the communications layer around it
Boards and executives fielding investor or regulator questions about AI claims
Law and financial services firms navigating AI-washing scrutiny and compliance deadlines
Any organization mid-transformation whose communications function feels behind
Why Me
Cydne Washington is the founder of Social Strength and holds AI Strategy & Governance and AI for Business credentials from the Wharton School. Recent work includes stakeholder strategy behind a nine-figure NYC housing preservation transaction and executive messaging that secured a mayoral endorsement — both under real public scrutiny, with real consequences for getting it wrong.
Related work: Strategic Communications During Organizational Growth
What This Comes Down To
AI adoption isn't only a technology decision. The moment someone outside the room — a board member, an employee, an investor, a reporter — asks a direct question about how it's being used, it becomes a communications decision too.
Where credibility is the strategy, that answer needs to already exist.