About Me
Noelle Russell
Noelle Russell is a multi-award-winning TEDx speaker, best-selling author, and AI Executive pioneering the field of AI Assurance—helping organizations move from responsible intent to provable accountability at scale.
She advises boards, executives, and builders on how to govern, operationalize, and assure AI systems across the enterprise, ensuring AI is not only innovative, but auditable, insurable, and trusted. Her work focuses on establishing clear accountability, human oversight, and control planes for agentic and autonomous AI systems before risk becomes reality.
A revenue growth and cost optimization expert, Noelle is a 5-time Microsoft AI MVP and was named the #1 Agentic AI Leader in 2025. She has educated more than 3.4 million learners worldwide and has led AI initiatives at NPR, Microsoft, IBM, AWS, and Amazon Alexa.
Noelle is the founder of the “I ❤️ AI” Community and the CEO of the AI Leadership Institute, where she equips leaders and organizations with the frameworks, controls, and assurance models required to deploy AI responsibly—and defensibly—in regulated, high-stakes environments.