About Shay Davis

I sat in the seat you're in. AI is how I got my week back.

As a VP, I ran delivery, operations, HR, and a 20-plus-person team, with my own business on the side. A general manager in everything but title. Then ChatGPT launched, and I got my week back.

Nov 2022Using AI on real work every day since it launched
150+Leaders and professionals coached on AI
15 yearsTeaching adults, including graduate school at Pepperdine
Shay Davis, founder of Athena AI Academy
The background

An educator who speaks executive.

  • VP of Operations and VP of Delivery; Director of AI in health tech
  • M.Ed. from Pepperdine; taught at Pepperdine's Graduate School of Education and Psychology
  • 12+ years in Salesforce and business systems
  • Certifications: AI App Development · AI Operations · Salesforce · MindStudio
Connect with Shay on LinkedIn

Teaching is what makes it stick. I don't hand you a tool and leave. I sit with you until it works, and until you can build the next one without me.

Who I've worked with

The C-suite, one leader at a time.

CEOs, CFOs, chiefs of staff, chief revenue officers, and directors of strategy and marketing, across health tech, private equity, consulting, and nonprofits. Most recently, I led AI adoption for an entire health tech company, from the CEO's desk to the front line.

And a long line of business owners and working parents who just wanted their evenings back.

What I've built

Not theory. Things that run.

An AI chief of staff that builds itself around you

A digital teammate that reads your inbox, calendar, and Slack, briefs you every morning on what needs you, and drafts the replies. It starts by interviewing you about how you work, then configures itself. First built for me, then for a CFO.

A personal advisory council

A bench of expert perspectives, including a devil's advocate, that an executive can run a decision through before it reaches the board. Built with a CEO and reusable for any leader.

A deal scout for a CFO

AI connected to PitchBook, so a private equity CFO could surface the investors and partners that actually fit before the next board conversation, instead of after a week of research.

A sales command center

Pulls the top opportunities from the CRM and coaches the outreach on each one, tailored and high-touch. The revenue team that saw it rolled it out the same month.

A company-wide answer engine

It started as an HR knowledge base, because the same questions kept landing on my desk. It grew past 20,000 documents across HR, operations, and support, and I've since built the same thing for clients on their technical documentation.

A company-wide AI rollout, done responsibly

Tools, training, and the guardrails that keep sensitive data where it belongs, in a regulated health business. The weekly AI sessions drew about half the company, every week.

Let's get your week back. Start with one task.

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