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AI should elevate human capability, not replace it.
That belief guides everything I do. If a tool makes the people smaller, it is the wrong tool or the wrong use of it.
Human-Centered AI · Practitioner & Builder
Use AI to create capacity. Use that capacity to lead.
I'm Alex Kanaan. I've spent my career leading how work changes, from enterprise agility to AI-native transformation. Now I teach it, speak about it, and build the tools to prove it.
Organizations I've worked inside, as an employee or a consultant
- Deloitte
- Accenture
- Saudi Aramco
- United Nations
- Avanade
- ConocoPhillips
- USAA
- Marathon Petroleum
Now
What I'm working on
Updated September 2026
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Turning Evolving the RTE into something longer than a session slot allows.
September 2026 -
Launched AIQ for RTEs, an AIQ scored against what the role actually runs on.
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Building the learning and enablement practice at Outcomes360.
Since February 2026 -
Finished SAFe is going AI-Native, a six part series on LinkedIn.
Complete
From my SAFe Summit 2026 talk
The artifact wasn't the value. The capacity was.
My Perspective
What I believe about AI and work
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AI transformation is human transformation.
The tools are the easy part. Alignment, capability and trust decide whether anything actually changes.
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A thought partner, not a vending machine.
Ask, receive, move on. That is where most people stop. The value shows up in the argument you have before you commit.
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Same work plus new tools means same results.
If AI has not changed how the work is designed, it has not changed the work.
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Start with the outcome, then work backward.
Most AI programs start with a tool and go hunting for a problem. Reverse it and the list of what to build gets short and obvious.
Where most people stop, and where the work actually changes
Write
Summarize
Structure
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Prepare
Analyze
Think
First three save you time. Last three change how you work.
Things I'm Building
I build what I teach
AIQ
LiveYour AI-Native Quotient. Twenty-four situational questions across six dimensions, scored 0 to 100, with a level from AI Aware to AI Orchestrator.
It takes about fifteen minutes. The questions put you in a situation instead of asking you to rate yourself, the answer order shuffles, and none of the options is the obvious right one. That is the point. It measures how you work with AI, not how well you talk about it.
Take the assessment →AIQ Score
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AI Integrator
AIQ Express
LiveThe same six dimensions and the same twenty-four items, rated instead of chosen. About five minutes. Two ways to measure the same thing, which is how you find out whether the measure holds.
aiqexpress.com →AIQ for RTEs
NewTwenty questions across the five things the role actually runs on: planning, execution, coaching, flow, and improvement. It asks what you do today, not what you know is possible. That gap is where the work is.
aiqrte.com →AI Readiness
LiveOrganizational readiness and maturity rather than individual fluency. Built for Outcomes360.
aiqmaturity.com →AI Governance Readiness
BuildingEarly. Governance is where most AI programs quietly stall.
Not yet openJourney
Three waves of how work changed
Wave One
Global Delivery
Logica, Senior Project Manager
Large delivery, distributed teams, the era when process was the answer to everything.
United Nations, Head of Applications Section
Running applications for an institution where the stakeholders are countries.
Avanade (Accenture + Microsoft), Business Architect
Enterprise architecture inside the joint venture, including a well production system for ConocoPhillips and lender-matching design for LendingTree. Where I learned what scale does to good intentions.
Wave Two
Agile at Scale
South Florida Agile Association, Co-founder and VP Agile Education
Built a regional agile community and chaired its summit. The volunteer team ran as an ART and put on the conference in under three months.
USAA, Agile Coach, then Lead Portfolio Manager
Eight years inside one enterprise. Coaching first, then portfolio. Long enough to watch what actually sticks.
Wave Three
AI-Native Work · Now
Marathon Petroleum, Release Train Engineer, Analytics and Insights
This is where the capacity story started. I stopped asking AI to help me write. I started asking it to help me think.
Outcomes360, Head of Learning and Enablement
Teaching organizations to work AI-native, and building the tools that measure whether it worked.
Executive MBA · AI-Native Advanced SAFe Practice Consultant · Certified AI-Native Trainer
Three waves is the argument. The whole record, every chapter, is on one page.
Read the full storySpeaking & Teaching
Bring me into the room
Featured talk
Evolving the RTE: What AI Can Do, Why Humans Matter More
SAFe & AI Summit · San Diego · September 2026
What happens to the role when the artifacts get cheap. Where the leadership work moves to, and why it gets harder, not easier.
Agile2019
Stop Spinning Your Team's Wheels. Talk plus an Agile Alliance article the same year.
Agile Transformation Summit
Conference chair. Six hundred attendees, thirty sessions, put on by twenty eight volunteers organized as eight Scrum teams.
What I speak about
AI and capacity. AI-native ways of working. Scaling agility without losing the humans.
Topics, past talks, bio and headshot all live on the speaking page.
Invite me to speakIdeas
What I'm thinking about
SAFe is going AI-Native →
A six part series on what changes for the framework, the roles and the people in them.
Everyone says they use AI. Almost nobody knows how good they actually are. →
Why I built AIQ, and what a score is actually for.
AI is not the bottleneck. Execution is. →
Notes from AI4 on the gap between what is possible and what ships.
Connect
Use AI to create capacity. Use that capacity to lead.
If that is the change you are trying to make, there are two ways in.
Need a whole organization moved, not just a room? That work runs through Outcomes360.