Capturing business value. Managing AI and strategic risks.
When stakes are high or conventional approaches falter, leaders, boards, and investors turn to Lee. We provide the multi-dimensional strategy to help transform innovation into business value amid risk and uncertainty.
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About
The Rare Perspective Advantage
We provide strategic technology transformation advice built on a rare, global, and multidimensional perspective. Synthesizing over 30 years of public and private sector experience, we integrate commercial reality, technology, policy, and law to help leaders build lasting enterprise value while managing risk amid uncertainty.
Career highlights from the dawn of the commercial internet to today’s AI and quantum eras.
Starting Early 1990s
Commercial Internet
Mobile Systems
Cable, Video & Communications Competition
Starting Mid-1990s
E-Commerce Transformation
Starting 2010s
Cloud Services
Big Data
AI Transformation
Starting 2020s
Advancing AI Waves
Quantum
Why leaders call us
When emerging technology introduces unprecedented opportunity, high-stakes or complexity, conventional approaches can falter.
These are the kinds of inflection points where boards, executives, and investors turn to us.
Stalled AI Adoption and Enterprise Diffusion
The Executive Challenge
“It is difficult to move beyond isolated AI pilots to achieve widespread, trusted adoption, enablement, and full operational diffusion that deliver clear returns on investment—especially when our legacy governance and risk management models are cumbersome, costly, and ineffective.”
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The Strategic Solution
We develop strategies for trusted, responsible AI adoption. We help guide executives through full-scale enablement—helping to increase organizational AI fluency and establish robust governance and risk management that become competitive advantages and help maximize business value.
Governance and Risk Management Struggles
The Executive Challenge
“I face intense pressure from investors, board members, customers, and policymakers to establish robust oversight, but our legacy governance and risk management models are cumbersome, costly, and ineffective.”
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The Strategic Solution
We elevate risk management into a core corporate strategy. We help guide leaders and boards through the implementation of modernized oversight frameworks, helping to transform governance into a distinct competitive advantage that protects the enterprise and builds market trust without paralyzing innovation.
Global Regulatory Disruption and Uncertainty
The Executive Challenge
“I face intense pressure to make high-stakes, long-term capital allocations and business decisions within an evolving global landscape where complex regulatory shifts or a lack of clear and established rules can stall growth.”
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The Strategic Solution
We help navigate global regulatory uncertainty to increase decision quality. We bring the strategic foresight needed to evaluate shifting regulatory dynamics early, equipping leaders to make highly informed business decisions, build market authority, and strategically frame policy positions to influence the broader ecosystem.
Cross-Functional Friction and Execution Gaps
The Executive Challenge
“My high-priority technology transformation stalls because my technical, legal, regulatory, business, and other teams face big learning curves and tend to operate in silos, creating impasses that delay business execution.”
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The Strategic Solution
We reduce cross-functional friction, increase AI fluency, and accelerate commercial momentum. We bridge the gaps between technology, business, policy, and law to help resolve conflicting priorities, build AI competencies, reduce execution bottlenecks, and clear the path for successful deployment.
Underutilized Data and IP Assets at Risk
The Executive Challenge
“I struggle to securely monetize and maximize my data and IP assets while simultaneously protecting them against complex cyber, legal, and regulatory risks.”
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The Strategic Solution
We help turn data and IP into secure enterprise value. We assist leaders in designing and implementing frameworks that unlock new uses and revenue streams from data and IP, while embedding safeguards to help protect these proprietary assets and defend the balance sheet.
Infrastructure and Open Innovation Complexities
The Executive Challenge
“Modern transformations require navigating complex ecosystems, from securing critical technical infrastructure to possibly leveraging open innovation paradigms without compromising proprietary assets or long-term market advantages.”
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The Strategic Solution
We help leaders address ecosystem complexities and make confident, high-stakes decisions. We increase clarity on the use of different infrastructure options and open-source models as well as approaches for securing necessary compute and data to power sustainable growth.
How we work
The Right Team for Your Problem
We serve as your primary advisory anchor, maintaining a highly nimble approach that recognizes your specific needs and priorities. When an engagement requires additional specialization or greater operational scale, we seamlessly draw upon our elite global network of world-class experts to deliver comprehensive, multidimensional solutions tailored exactly to your objectives.
01Diagnose
We begin by understanding your core priorities and strategic objectives, mapping the critical resources needed to realize them. From this foundation, we define a clear, calibrated scope built specifically for your needs.
02Curate
In close collaboration with you, we nimbly curate a dedicated team that may draw from our elite global network, selecting experts across disciplines to fit the exact contours of your challenge. This ecosystem includes leading global institutions such as APCO and Analysis Group, allowing us to rapidly scale resources to match the size and nature of your project.
03Execute
With the right team swiftly in place, we focus entirely on delivering practical strategies and solutions. Because client requirements differ, our model remains adaptive—helping ensure your objective is met efficiently, whether led directly through our firm or seamlessly integrated with our trusted institutional network.
Every engagement is shaped by the client, not a template. The team that serves a frontier AI lab may differ from the team that serves an investor, a financial services company or an emerging company in digital health, legal tech, cyber-security or another sector.
Meet Lee Tiedrich
Five technology revolutions, one advisor
Lee Tiedrich has guided organizations through five successive technology revolutions — from the opening of communications competition and the Internet to mobile, cloud, and now AI and quantum. AI is the latest chapter of a 30+ year career, not the whole story. That long view is rare, and it is the foundation of every engagement.
Her rare, multi-dimensional perspective comes from having worked every side of the table — commercial, technical, legal, and governmental. Covington & Burling partner for more than twenty years and co-leader of its global Artificial Intelligence Initiative. Former Senior AI Advisor at NIST. Consultant to the OECD and the Global Partnership on AI. Former Senior Adviser to the International Scientific Report on AI Safety, led by Yoshua Bengio. Member of an EU AI Office working group. Duke electrical engineering, Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. Penn Law. University faculty affiliations.
30+
Years advising through technology shifts
5
Technology revolutions navigated
4
Disciplines: engineering, law, government, business
UK Minister Kanishika Narayan, Lee Tiedrich, Singapore Minister Josephine Teo, Prof. Yoshua Bengio, Prof. Alondra Nelson, and UK AI Security Institute Director, Adam Beaumont.
Testimonials
Said about Lee
From industry and other leaders.
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“Every time we turn a corner to an epochal new technology, Lee Tiedrich is already there as a thought-leader. This is just the latest iteration.”
EVP & Chief Legal Officer, Media Company
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“Lee Tiedrich is a true thought leader in international AI policy, someone who doesn’t just make a point, she makes a difference.”
Managing Director, Global Government Affairs Company
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“Lee has been at the forefront of helping organizations maximize their investment in AI in safe and responsible ways.”
Managing Director, Global Advisory and Advocacy Consultancy
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“Not only does Lee have deep substantive knowledge and outstanding judgment, but she also knows how to lead teams with diverse expertise and architect integrated, actionable, and effective solutions.”
General Counsel, Technology Company
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“One of the world’s best experts … [and] that’s not even an overstatement.”
Leading AI Scholar
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“Lee’s credentials are stunning.”
A Retired Air Force Major General
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“Lee Tiedrich develops approaches for AI that evaluate and manage risk while aligning law, policy and practices with science.”
TechCrunch, Women in AI Series
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