Sherylle Bates is a Strategic Advisor and AI Solution Architect with more than a decade of experience inside mission-driven organizations during their most consequential moments: strategic pivots, leadership transitions, growth, and restructuring. Through the AI Strategy & Adoption Lab, she helps nonprofit leaders adopt AI with clarity, working from the principle that strategy comes before tools and governance comes before scale. She holds certifications in AI Solutions Architecture, Responsible AI, Agentic AI Practitioner, AWS AI Practitioner, Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals, and Google Generative AI Leader.