AI StrategistAI Transformation LeaderSpeaker
I help leaders lead AI with confidence.
I'm Erick Truong, an AI strategist, transformation leader, and speaker. I teach executives and their teams how to take AI from stalled pilots to governed, measurable results with THE MASTERS FRAMEWORK, built from 25 years of making complex systems work. On stage and in the room, I give leaders a clear path forward.
- Saved per year with AI at a single client
- 6 figures
- Saved per year with AI at a single client
- Less time to create SOWs & contracts
- ~95%
- Less time to create SOWs & contracts
- To produce what used to take 20–30 hours
- 30–60 min
- To produce what used to take 20–30 hours
What I do
Becoming AI-native is the real leadership test.
Most organizations don't have an AI problem. They have a leadership problem: no clear plan, no governance, and no proof it worked. I help executives and their teams move from uncertain to AI-native, with a method that puts governance in early and makes the return something you can measure.
Value delivered over time
My method · The MASTERS framework
I built THE MASTERS FRAMEWORK to design those failures out.
It's the seven-stage operating model I teach, built backward from where enterprises actually fail: governance, adoption, and ROI. Governance goes in before anything gets built, and proving the return gets its own stage.
01 / 07
Map
The workflows and unit economics, before any tool.
Tool-first, not work-first. Teams buy a tool and hunt for uses.
Start where I start
See where you stand, before anything else.
Two free diagnostics I use with leaders. Neither needs an account.
AI readiness assessment
30 statements · 6 dimensions · ~7 min
An honest read across strategy, data, skills, process, governance, and culture. You'll see your score and the one dimension to fix first.
Take the assessment →Governance self-check
12 questions · 6 areas · ~4 min
See where your AI guardrails are thin, across the controls that matter most. Nothing is stored and nothing is sent.
Run the self-check →The path forward
Where this goes, when you're ready.
No rush and no hard sell. Start with the newsletter. When the time is right, the live session is the door, and the program is the deep work.
01 · Now
The Guardrails newsletter
AI strategy and governance, made practical. This is where everything starts, and where new sessions and seats are shared first.
Join Guardrails →02 · Live event
Lead AI with confidence, live.
Saturday, January 23, 2027
A 90-minute live session walking leaders through all seven stages of THE MASTERS FRAMEWORK. Signups open soon.
03 · The AI-Native Leader
Become the leader your organization's AI shift needs.
A MASTERS program for executives and teams who want to go from uncertain to AI-native. Details shared with the list first.
About
From the operations floor to the main stage.
I didn't come to AI from a research lab. I came from operations, where systems either work or they don't, and people feel the difference. Twenty-five years of making complex things actually work is what I bring to AI strategy, to transformation, and to the stage.
Read my story →The Guardrails newsletter
AI strategy and governance, made practical.
Clear thinking on AI strategy, governance, and transformation, drawn from the work I'm doing with leaders.
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Questions about speaking or working together? Contact me