“Can AI do this?” For a while, this has been the question I kept asking myself: Can it summarize this reading? Can it generate examples?...Read More
AI can elevate thinking.
AND
The thinking has to already be there so that it can be elevated by AI.
Today, thriving requires holding both truths at the same time.
Do you?
Do your students?
Do your employees?
If not, let’s get to work!
Let's Start Here
For Educators
A Free Activity for Teaching Students Why Learning Still Matters
AI works best when students bring real thinking to it. This classroom-ready activity (that takes less than an hour) helps your students discover — for themselves — why their own expertise is irreplaceable.
Build It Sessions
A 60-minute one-on-one session where we build a custom AI tool for your classroom — together, in your own Claude or ChatGPT account. You leave with something real, and the confidence to keep building.
For Businesses
A Free Guide for Building an AI-Ready Workforce
Is your team using AI to think better — or to replace thinking? This practical guide helps HR leaders and CLOs hire for AI literacy and avoid the dependency trap hiding in existing AI workflows.
AI Mapping Sessions
A structured three-part engagement that maps where your organization stands on AI literacy and delivers specific recommendations within 48 hours. Because knowing where you are is the first step to knowing where to go.
I Help Educators and Businesses Find Their Way with AI — by Exploring It, Evaluating It, and Sharing What I Learn
I’m Michele Lashley — a college professor, attorney, and entrepreneur who helps people make sense of complex ideas.
I focus on how AI actually shows up in teaching and learning, how it changes decision-making, and where human judgment still matters most.
My work is grounded in classroom and boardroom experience, careful experimentation, and a belief that clarity matters more than certainty. (Because, it does.)
Welcome to the Messy Middle
This is where thinking about AI gets honest.
I explore what it means to use AI well, what it means to use it poorly, and what’s at stake when we get it wrong — for students, for employees, and for the people responsible for both.
If you’re asking the harder questions about AI, you’re in the right place.
Here's What You'll Find:
"Draw Me a Map" Newsletter
A newsletter for educators and organizations asking the harder questions about AI — what it means for how people learn, work, and think. Real practice, honest frameworks, and ideas worth sitting with.
Tools, Ideas & Frameworks
I build things — classroom tools, thinking frameworks, practical resources — and I share them here. Everything is tested in real contexts, not theorized from a distance. If it doesn't hold up in practice, it doesn't make it onto this site.
Live Streams & Workshops
Occasional live sessions where we work through real problems together in real time. No theory. No slides full of bullet points. Just practical application of ideas that actually matter.
Field Notes
Short-form thinking on what I'm noticing, testing, and still figuring out — in classrooms, in organizations, and at the intersection of both. Current, honest, and never finished.