Greater Seattle · Available 2026

Making AI adoption
actually stick.

I'm Amani Ellen Loutfy - a Wharton-educated operations executive who helps enterprises move past AI deployment into something measurable: embedded workflows, fluent managers, and a C-suite that agrees on what productivity now means.

Wharton
General Management Program, '24–'26
3,000+
employees managed across orgs
$63M+
capital raised at Orion Labs
The thesis

The risk isn't technical. It's human.

Engineering managers who don't yet know how to set expectations for AI-augmented teams. C-suite leaders without a shared baseline on what productivity means in an AI-assisted org. Process owners waiting for permission to change.

I've navigated all of these - across venture-backed startups, federally funded research labs, and matrixed institutional environments. I close the gap between what executives decide and what managers actually do.

Change Management

Enterprise-wide strategy design, stakeholder alignment, communication frameworks, adoption measurement.

AI Integration

Generative AI workflow design, governance & ethics, LLM-based process automation, business transformation.

Leadership Enablement

Management coaching, expectation-setting frameworks, engineering team dynamics, org design.

Operations

Process analysis, systems implementation, multimillion-dollar budget oversight, regulated environments.

How the work unfolds

A structured approach to a wide-open vista.

01
Listening tour

Organizational listening and trust-building across teams and leadership - the foundation everything else rests on.

02
Manager enablement

Training managers to lead AI-augmented engineering teams and set measurable, defensible expectations.

03
C-suite alignment

A shared baseline on AI productivity, adoption metrics, and change governance - codified and owned.

Open to co-creating roles with progressive leaders to create amazing organizations.

Experience

Extensive track record of transforming operations inside organizations.

Feb 2023 - Jan 2026

Senior Business Systems Advisor

University of Washington - Applied Physics Laboratory (UARC/DoD)
  • Directed enterprise-wide business process transformation across operations, compliance, and workforce systems.
  • Built change management plans inside a federally-regulated, technically complex research environment.
  • Represented APL on institutional UW committees; managed relationships across a large matrixed organization.
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022

Vice President of Operations

Squadformers - Venture-Backed Tech Startup
  • Aligned finance, HR, and engineering; lifted operating efficiency 40% and streamlined operations 30%.
  • Stood up risk management and cross-functional coordination infrastructure for a scaling engineering org.
Apr 2014 - Dec 2019

Head of Operations

Orion Labs - Enterprise Voice AI / IoT (Series B)
  • Scaled from 14 to 75 across three rounds, securing $63M+ with retention 33% above industry average.
  • Built HR, finance, IT, and legal operations from the ground up alongside engineering leadership.
  • Oversaw 14 federal patent filings, investor diligence, cap table, and multi-year budget models.
May 2012 - May 2014

Organizational Development Consultant

Independent - Small Business & Startup Clients
  • Advised on workflow, systems, compliance, and operations - doubling revenue for key clients.
  • Delivered SOPs, budget modeling, and full-cycle personnel programs across industries.
Education

The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania

General Management Program · 2024–2026 · Wharton alum, May 2026

Generative AI & Business Transformation

LLMs, AI ethics, governance, cultural change, business transformation.

Faculty · Puntoni · Hosanagar · Mollick · Tambe

Strategy Execution

Leadership, culture, incentive design, change and network dynamics.

Executive Negotiation
Finance for Executives

Financial modeling, investment evaluation, strategic decision-making.

Get in touch

Let's talk about
what adoption looks like
inside your org.