AI Adoption Advisory

AI adoption, delivered by operators.

Cheneval Advisory helps organisations adopt AI in practical, sustainable ways. We combine a practitioner's perspective to AI transformation and a strategic approach to implementation, using the tools daily, working inside real workplaces, and helping leaders move from "we should do AI" to "here's what we changed on Monday."

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Our Approach

From AI uncertainty to confident action.

AI adoption isn't a tooling problem. It's a workforce transformation problem. Our three-phase approach helps your organisation move through it deliberately rather than reactively.

Phase 01

Diagnose

Through a workshop, leadership session, or fixed-scope readiness assessment, we identify where AI can create real value in your context and the workflows, capabilities and risks that need attention first.

Phase 02

Apply

We work alongside your people to put the highest-leverage use cases into practice using existing tools or helping you choose the right tools, designing real workflows, and proving value before you scale.

Phase 03

Embed

We help build the AI literacy, setup governance structures, and implement operating rhythms that make change stick so your teams keep moving long after the engagement ends.

About

Practitioner-led, not slide-deck-led.

Jami Emerson Cheneval

Jami Emerson Cheneval is the principal of Cheneval Advisory, a Sydney-based consultancy helping organisations adopt AI in practical, sustainable ways.

Originally from Oregon City in the United States, Jami completed a Bachelor of Information Technology at the Australian Catholic University and was named the 2020 NSW International Student of the Year — Higher Education for her leadership and contribution during her studies. She currently works in IT at the University of Technology Sydney as an AI Capability and Adoption Specialist and Test Automation Engineer.

Alongside her IT work, Jami is the founder of an Australian wholefood snack bar brand built on lean operations and integrated AI workflows, and she served as the 2020 Founder-in-Residence at the UTS Techcelerator Female Founder Mentoring Program, supporting emerging women founders across the Australian innovation community.

Through Cheneval Advisory, Jami brings a practitioner's perspective to AI transformation — combining technical engineering discipline, founder experience, and hands-on enterprise AI adoption work. She believes AI adoption is a workforce transformation challenge, not a tooling one, and works closely with leaders across executive, people-and-culture, and operations teams to make it real.

Services

Four ways we work with you.

01

Executive Workshops

In-house sessions for leadership teams, executive groups, boards, and People & Culture functions — on AI literacy, governance, adoption strategy, and change management. Half-day or full-day.

02

Adoption Partner Retainer

Ongoing monthly advisory after a diagnostic — leadership sessions, async support, roadmap reviews, governance check-ins, and change-management coaching as you execute.

03

Operational Workshops

Hands-on sessions that help operational and frontline staff adopt AI in their everyday work — turning the right tools into practical, repeatable workflows for the tasks they already own.

04

Advisory Hours

Pre-purchased advisory hours for organisations that need on-demand AI guidance without a full engagement — document reviews, board prep, vendor evaluation, second opinions.

In their words

What clients say.

Jami, thank you for facilitating such an outstanding AI adoption workshop at Loreto Kirribilli. Your engaging and practical approach inspired our team to think more innovatively about AI, leading many to begin building their own agents to improve productivity while helping even our late adopters understand the value of integrating AI into their everyday work.

Kevin Horstmann Director of People and Culture, Loreto Kirribilli

AI adoption isn't a tooling problem. It's a workforce transformation problem.
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Common questions

Questions we hear a lot.

The questions leadership teams ask us most often, answered plainly.

What is AI adoption consulting?

AI adoption consulting helps organisations move from buying AI tools to actually using them well. At Cheneval Advisory that means identifying where AI creates real value in your context, building the skills and confidence of your people, and putting governance in place so adoption is safe and sustainable. AI adoption is a workforce transformation challenge, not a tooling one.

How does an organisation get started with AI?

Start with your people, not the technology. Most staff are already using AI informally, so the first steps are a clear policy on safe use, practical training built around the real workflows your teams already own, and a joint working group between leadership, People and Culture, and IT. A readiness workshop or leadership session is the fastest way to establish where your organisation actually stands.

What does an AI workshop for staff involve?

Cheneval Advisory workshops are hands-on rather than theoretical. Staff learn how to spot the tasks in their own week where AI genuinely helps, how to brief AI tools effectively using a simple prompt structure, and how to use AI safely with enterprise tools. Attendees work on their own real tasks during the session and leave with skills they can use the next morning.

Will AI replace jobs in my organisation?

AI is best understood as augmented intelligence. It takes over the repetitive parts of work, such as drafting, formatting and summarising, while people keep the judgement, relationships and accountability. In practice, well-run AI adoption gives staff time back for the parts of their roles that need human care, rather than replacing the roles themselves.

How should staff use AI safely with sensitive data?

The simple rule: an enterprise tool inside your organisation's tenancy with a data agreement keeps data under your control; a public AI tool on a personal account sends data out. Personal information about staff, clients or customers should only ever go into enterprise-secured tools, and sensitive matters need named sign-off. Good AI policy makes the safe path the easy path.

What does AI adoption consulting cost in Australia?

It depends on the format. Cheneval Advisory offers single workshops for leadership or operational teams, fixed-scope readiness assessments, monthly adoption retainers, and pre-purchased advisory hours for on-demand guidance. Engagements are scoped to your context, and a short conversation is the fastest way to get an accurate picture. Contact jami@chenevaladvisory.com.au.

Why choose a practitioner-led AI consultancy?

Because advice lands differently when it comes from someone who does the work. Cheneval Advisory is led by a practitioner who works in enterprise AI adoption daily and runs her own AI-enabled business, rather than advising from theory. Sessions draw on what has actually worked inside real organisations, including an enterprise adoption model that took a 34-person team to AI-first ways of working within a year.

Let's talk

Bring clarity to your next AI decision.

Whether you're a leadership team starting to think about AI, or an organisation ready to embed it across your teams — a short conversation is the fastest way to find out where we can help.