Christina Sandema-Sombe, D.B.A. AI Readiness • Human Trust
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Find the support, learning or tools that fit where you are.

Work directly with Christina on an organizational challenge—or begin with courses, assessments, frameworks and practical resources you can use independently or across your team.

Every pathway connects data and AI with the human, cultural, governance and operating conditions required for trusted, sustainable transformation.

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Dr. Christina Sandema-Sombe, data and AI strategist, advisor and educator

Two Ways to Begin

Choose the level of engagement that fits your goals

The distinction is simple: receive customized support for an organization, or access scalable learning and resources.

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Customized Engagement

Work With Christina

Best for organizations and leadership teams seeking assessment, advisory support, facilitated alignment or structured use of Christina’s intellectual property.

  • AI readiness and governance advisory
  • Data governance and stewardship activation
  • Organizational assessments and roadmaps
  • Private- and public-sector solutions
  • Framework licensing and implementation
  • Aligned brand partnerships
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Scalable Access

Learn and Apply

Best for professionals and teams seeking education, assessments, implementation tools or data-culture resources they can access at their own pace.

  • On-demand courses and webinars
  • Data and AI literacy resources
  • Readiness assessments and calculators
  • Templates and implementation tools
  • Enterprise learning through Datum Café
  • Data-culture merchandise and recognition
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Organizational Work

Customized support for leaders responsible for making transformation real

Choose the pathway based on whether you need advisory support, authorized framework use or an aligned commercial partnership.

Advisory and Activation

Organizational Solutions

Advisory services, assessments and activation programs for organizations navigating AI readiness, data governance, stewardship, literacy, organizational culture and human trust.

Best for: executives, data and AI leaders, transformation teams and organizations needing a customized path forward.

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Intellectual Property

Frameworks & Licensing

Structured access to TrustInfra™, CIQ™, the REACT Model™ and related frameworks, materials, learning resources and implementation pathways.

Best for: organizations seeking repeatable methodology, internal capability and authorized use of proprietary intellectual property.

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Commercial Collaboration

Brand Partnerships

Carefully aligned sponsorships and collaborations involving owned content, educational experiences, digital resources, community engagement or Data Mart campaigns.

Best for: organizations with a relevant audience, educational objective and commitment to transparent, useful partnership.

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Private and Public-Sector Solutions

Support attentive to organizational context, accountability and operating realities

Enterprise Organizations

Private-Sector Solutions

Support for organizations working to connect data and AI ambition with business strategy, operating models, governance, stewardship, workforce capability, culture and measurable value.

  • AI readiness and organizational alignment
  • Data governance and stewardship activation
  • Cross-functional accountability
  • Data and AI literacy
  • Culture, trust and adoption
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Agencies and Contractors

Government Solutions

Data and AI readiness, governance and transformation support attentive to public accountability, regulatory requirements, policy, procurement and institutional capacity.

  • Government AI readiness
  • Responsible AI governance
  • Data governance and stewardship
  • Workforce literacy and capability
  • Organizational assessment and activation
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Learning and Resources

Build individual and organizational capability through accessible pathways

Begin with self-paced education, enterprise literacy or practical tools and products.

Individual Learning

AI Ready Pro

On-demand, nontechnical learning that helps early- and mid-career professionals build the people-centered capabilities needed to adapt and lead in AI-enabled workplaces.

Best for: individual professionals, emerging leaders and workforce-development cohorts.

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Enterprise Learning

Datum Café

Enterprise data and AI literacy designed to build shared understanding, participation and organizational capability at scale.

Datum Café connects reusable practitioner content and frameworks with learning experiences, workshops and optional organizational support.

Best for: organizations, governance leaders, data teams, business functions and executives.

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Products and Resources

The Data Mart

Assessments, templates, implementation resources, merchandise and recognition products that make data work more accessible, visible and human.

Best for: practitioners, data teams, employers, conference organizers, educators and the data-curious.

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Find Your Starting Point

Begin with the outcome you need

Our organization needs help with AI readiness, governance, stewardship, culture or adoption.
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We want to use Christina’s frameworks inside our organization.
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I want to build my own AI readiness and leadership capabilities.
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Our organization needs scalable data and AI literacy.
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I need an assessment, template, tool, download or data-culture product.
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Our brand wants to support relevant educational content or community experiences.
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We are a public agency or contractor seeking qualified support.
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A Connected Foundation

Different offers, one people-centered framework ecosystem

Christina’s advisory services, learning experiences and practical resources are connected by a systems-level approach to readiness, human trust and organizational transformation.

TrustInfra™, CIQ™ and the REACT Model™ connect high-level questions about responsible data and AI with the strategic, administrative and cultural practices required to make change operational.

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TrustInfra™ The organizational infrastructure required to establish and sustain human trust.
CIQ™ The cultural and organizational intelligence shaping readiness, adoption and transformation.
REACT Model™ Connected strategic, administrative and cultural pathways for organizational action.

Understanding the Offer Types

Services, live workshops and on-demand courses serve different needs

Organizational services provide customized assessment, advisory or activation support for a particular organization.

Facilitated workshops are live, interactive experiences customized for a team, organization or event.

On-demand courses are self-paced learning products that individuals or teams can access without booking a live engagement.

Products and resources include assessments, calculators, templates, implementation tools, downloads and data-culture merchandise.

Not Sure Where to Begin?

Start with the challenge or outcome you are trying to address

Share what you are working toward, and we will help identify the most appropriate organizational solution, learning pathway, framework or resource.

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Systems Thinking • AI Readiness • Human Trust

Build data and AI transformation that people can trust—and organizations can sustain.

Dr. Christina Sandema-Sombe helps leaders connect data and AI strategy with governance, organizational culture, workforce capability and human trust. Her practitioner-led approach helps organizations move beyond good intentions and technology-centered solutions toward responsible adoption and measurable value.

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Award-Winning Data Leader • Practitioner • Researcher • Creator of TrustInfra™, CIQ™ and the REACT Model™

Professional portrait of Dr. Christina Sandema-Sombe

Former Nike Chief Data Steward • Former Big Four Data Leader • Thinkers360 Multi-Category Thought Leader • DataIQ100 • AIM AI100 • CDO Magazine Global Data Power Woman • CIO Contributor

Dr. Christina Sandema-Sombe, data and AI strategist

Where Code Meets Culture

Transformation becomes sustainable when technology and humanity are designed together.

Organizations are moving quickly to adopt data, analytics and AI. Yet many struggle to achieve adoption, demonstrate value, establish accountability or earn trust.

Christina examines the complete system surrounding technology: leadership decisions, governance, data practices, workforce readiness, organizational culture and the experiences of the people expected to use and sustain it.

As a systems thinker and practitioner, she helps leaders understand how decisions across technology, governance, culture, skills and organizational design interact to shape outcomes.

Readiness

Determine whether the leadership, data, governance and workforce conditions necessary to move forward responsibly are in place.

Trust

Design transparency, accountability, participation and responsible practices into the operating environment.

Sustainable Value

Connect strategy with execution, evidence, learning and continuous improvement.

Explore the Possibilities

Different ways to turn insight into action

Engage Christina for an event or organizational initiative—or access practical learning experiences and tools designed for independent and team use.

Live Engagements

Speaking & Events

Keynotes, executive briefings, panels and facilitated workshops that connect data and AI with leadership, governance, culture and human trust.

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Advisory Support

Organizational Solutions

Advisory services, assessments and activation programs for organizations navigating AI readiness, governance, stewardship, literacy and transformation.

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Self-Paced Education

Courses & Learning

On-demand courses and guided learning experiences that help professionals and teams develop practical data and AI capability at their own pace.

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Tools and Downloads

Products & Resources

AI-enabled products, assessments, calculators, templates and implementation resources that help leaders move from questions to informed action.

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Practitioner-Led Perspective

Experience across global impact, consulting and enterprise leadership

Christina’s perspective is informed by work inside mission-driven, advisory and global enterprise environments—not theory alone.

FOUNDATION

CARE International

Christina’s global impact and performance-management systems work reinforced the importance of context, participation, meaningful evidence and organizational purpose.

CONSULTING

Deloitte

Over nine years in management consulting, Christina deepened her experience in organizational complexity, global taxonomy, reference data, operating models and enterprise transformation.

ENTERPRISE LEADERSHIP

Nike

As Chief Data Steward, Christina helped advance data stewardship, governance, accountability and organizational engagement within a complex global enterprise.

These experiences shape an approach that is both strategic and grounded in implementation. Transformation must work not only in a framework or presentation, but within real organizations involving competing priorities, complex systems and people being asked to work differently.

Original Intellectual Property

A systems-level approach to responsible data and AI transformation

Christina’s framework ecosystem connects high-level questions about trust and readiness with strategic, administrative and cultural pathways for practical organizational action.

Human Trust

TrustInfra™

A framework for examining and strengthening the organizational infrastructure on which human trust depends.

Cultural Intelligence

CIQ™

A human-centered lens for understanding the cultural and organizational intelligence required for data and AI transformation.

Organizational Action

REACT Model™

A connected system of strategic, administrative and cultural frameworks designed to support repeatable implementation.

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Learn • Assess • Apply

Practical resources for turning complex challenges into informed action

Not every next step requires a consulting engagement. Courses, assessments and digital resources provide accessible ways to build knowledge, examine readiness and apply people-centered data and AI practices.

On-Demand Learning

AI Ready Pro

A practical learning pathway for understanding the organizational foundations of AI readiness and making more informed decisions about adoption, governance and implementation.

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Assessments and Tools

Data & AI Readiness Resources

Practical assessments, calculators and decision-support resources for examining readiness, critical data, governance, stewardship and organizational capability.

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Data and AI Literacy

Datum Café

Accessible learning experiences and resources that help people build the language, confidence and practical understanding needed to participate in data and AI conversations.

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Featured Keynote

People: The Linchpin of Successful Outcomes with Data

Delivered at the GDS Data & Analytics Insight Summit, 2024

Organizations continually introduce new data platforms, analytics capabilities and AI tools, yet many still struggle to generate adoption, scale and sustainable business value.

This keynote explores why business engagement, data fluency and literacy, and an organizational culture prepared for change are essential to successful outcomes.

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Recognized Perspective

Recognized across the data, AI and technology leadership community

Christina’s practitioner-led work has been recognized across data, artificial intelligence, governance, behavioral science, transformation and technology leadership.

Thinkers360 Multi-Category Recognition

In 2025, Thinkers360 recognized Christina across nine categories, including Top 10 recognition in AI Ethics, AI Governance and Behavioral Science; Top 25 in Transformation; Top 50 in IT Leadership and Legal and IP; and Top 100 in Big Data, EdTech and Retail.

Additional recognition includes Top 10 Global Data Innovator and AI100 honors in 2024, along with DataIQ100, Leading Influencers North America and CDO Magazine Global Data Power Woman recognition.

Christina has served as an Editorial Board Member for CDO Magazine since 2023 and contributes executive perspectives through publications including CIO.

Thinkers360
DataIQ100
AIM AI100
CDO Magazine
CIO
Computerwoche
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Credentials

Research, professional practice and continued learning

Doctor of Business Administration Doctoral research examining business-intelligence adoption and technology acceptance.
Chief Data Officer Certification Executive education through Carnegie Mellon University.
Prosci Certified Change Practitioner Formal training in the people-centered practice of organizational change.
Master of Management University of Phoenix.
Bachelor’s Degree in History Agnes Scott College.
Practitioner and Researcher Experience connecting organizational challenges with evidence, frameworks and implementation.

Latest Thinking

Ideas for leading at the intersection of technology and humanity

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Executive Perspective

The human consequences of AI disruption

Explore how AI decisions affect employees, consumers, organizations, communities and the wider economy.

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Data and AI Governance

Moving governance from intent to action

Examine the leadership, accountability and operating conditions required to make governance work in practice.

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Courses and Resources

Turn new understanding into practical action

Continue learning through courses, assessments, templates and decision-support resources.

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Newsletter

Code Meets Culture

Explore how leadership, culture, governance and human trust shape the future of data and AI.

Choose Your Next Step

Ready to move beyond good intentions?

Build trustworthy, people-centered data and AI systems that create meaningful organizational value. Bring Christina’s perspective to your audience, explore support for your organization or begin with an on-demand course, assessment or practical resource.

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