Charlena combines business experience with pioneering work in human+AI collaboration. As a management professor with a humanities foundation, she teaches human-centered strategy, organizational change and innovation, and AI development and integration. She brings practical insights from both academic research and real-world implementation.

As a Faculty Mentor for AAC&U’s Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and and Curriculum, Charlena and the Human+AI For Good team work with university leadership and faculty to develop AI strategy, foster trust-based cultures, and implement collaborative organizational change. As a researcher and Yale Life Worth Living Fellow, Charlena examines irreducible human qualities and what makes life meaningful in the era of AI.

Cheney brings expertise as an English professor, global studies educator and communications specialist. With a deep understanding of how language and interpersonal relationships shape our reality, Cheney helps organizations and individuals articulate their unique human value in an increasingly automated world. She is passionate about coming alongside educators and students to guide and equip them to lead and thrive in the AI era.

Her work in narrative, creativity, and meaning making informs our approach to better humaning as both a concept and a practice. Cheney’s work bridges the humanities and technology, ensuring that our human stories remain central even as AI transforms our experiences.

Dr. Dylan Bailey is an ethicist with expertise at the intersection of philosophy, healthcare, higher education, and technology. His work explores what virtuous leadership requires in an AI-enabled world, how leaders can cultivate the flourishing of others amid technological change, and how emerging technologies present both opportunities and challenges for human well-being.

Passionate about translating ethical insights into actionable strategies, Dr. Bailey helps institutions and communities align their practices with their core values as they integrate AI and other emerging technologies. He has served as a Project Team Member, Retreat Facilitator, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Yale University’s Life Worth Living Project, and as a participant in Yale’s Pedagogy of the Good Life Project, where he worked with educators and higher education leaders on advancing human well-being.

Dr. Bailey supports hospitals in complex clinical decision-making, advises universities on mission and values-led digital transformation, and teaches future business leaders, educators, and healthcare professionals as a faculty member at the University of South Florida. He brings both philosophical depth and and a practical, applied perspective to navigating our human+AI future.

Dr. Ira Bedzow brings a unique perspective that bridges higher education, healthcare, business and organizational culture, and moral leadership. He is an associate professor in the practice of organization and management at Goizueta Business School, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at Emory School of Medicine, and a core faculty member at Emory University’s Center for Ethics. He also serves as a senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion.

His work focuses on how individuals and institutions can cultivate ethical cultures, especially in the face of complexity. Whether unpacking the ethical implications of biotechnology and healthcare policy or helping leaders move from asking “What should I do?” to “How can I act on my values effectively?”—he offers practical insights grounded in deep philosophical thought.

Bedzow is also a senior scholar at the Aspen Center for Social Values and co-director of the Ferencz Institute for Ethics, Human Rights and the Holocaust. He brings the depth of a philosopher, the clarity of a communicator, and the heart of a teacher—and, as an Orthodox rabbi, he speaks fluently across traditions, sectors, perspectives, and audiences.