Ashley Gross is the founder and CEO of The Alliance, an enterprise AI advisory firm, and the author of The AI Workweek (Wiley, 2026). After cutting her own 80 hour workweek to 15 hours with the same output, she built a practice teaching teams to map their work, hand AI the routine, and protect the decisions that need human judgment.

Ashley Gross is the founder and CEO of The Alliance, an enterprise AI advisory firm, and the author of The AI Workweek (Wiley, 2026). After cutting her own 80 hour workweek to 15 hours with the same output, she built a practice teaching teams to map their work, hand AI the routine, and protect the decisions that need human judgment. She has trained more than 2,500 professionals at companies including Microsoft, Visa, Abbott, and Unilever, guest lectured at MIT, and spoken at INBOUND, IBM Think, and HumanX. Forbes recognizes her as an AI consultant. She is a working mom based in North Carolina.