Govern AI as it scales
Define ownership, access, human oversight, risk thresholds, and audit-ready operating controls.
Alison Whittaker
Agentic AI governance · Decision intelligence · Portfolio operating systems · Enterprise transformation
Enterprise AI transformation leader with 15+ years connecting strategy, product operations, governance, adoption, and executive decision-making across Intuit, Oracle, Intel, Visa, and Wells Fargo.
Define ownership, access, human oversight, risk thresholds, and audit-ready operating controls.
Turn portfolio signals into clear tradeoffs, executive choices, and accountable follow-through.
Help teams adopt AI-native workflows with measurable value, confidence, and durable behavior change.
Selected experience
Across AI adoption, cloud platforms, product operations, and digital transformation, the through line is the same: build clarity, alignment, and durable execution.
Enterprise Program Manager · AI Enablement & Adoption
Leading enterprise adoption of an AI-enabled planning platform across Product, Engineering, TPM, and Business Operations.
Senior Principal Program Manager
Led enterprise program governance, release readiness, and cloud-native and microservices modernization initiatives supporting Oracle Fusion Applications across 40+ global engineering organizations.
Senior NPI Program Manager
Created the governance, tooling, reporting, and operating cadences needed to support rapid organizational growth.
Senior Marketing Program Manager
Led enterprise digital programs and introduced scalable delivery frameworks for high-visibility global initiatives.
Earlier transformation and program leadership includes Wells Fargo, Visa, Razorfish, MRM, McCann Worldgroup, Publicis, and Scient.
Forward-looking prototype suite
Five focused demos for the agentic enterprise: govern autonomous work, prioritize demand, detect delivery risk, synthesize executive decisions, and scale adoption with human oversight built in.
A 2026-ready control layer for managing AI agents as governed portfolio assets. Demonstrates agent inventory, access boundaries, value, cost, risk, oversight, audit signals, and scale decisions in one operating view.
Prototype showing how AI-assisted delivery teams can surface dependency drift, release-gate exposure, owner gaps, and launch-readiness risk before they become executive escalations.
Where I create leverage
I operate where strategy, technology, people, and decisions have to become one coherent system.
Turn broad strategic direction into sequenced portfolios, operating models, and measurable delivery across 1000+ initiatives.
Move AI from tool rollout to governed, measurable behavior change.
Design lightweight decision systems for risk, dependencies, tradeoffs, and accountability.
Give leaders a shared view of priorities, progress, and the decisions that matter now.
“The work is not adding process. It is creating enough clarity that the organization can move.”
Case study callout
At Oracle, I supported regulated cloud delivery and FedRAMP readiness by turning security, engineering, SaaS operations, audit, and executive requirements into an accountable governance rhythm.
Recognition & reputation
Credibility built through calm leadership, structured execution, and measurable delivery in high-pressure environments.
Alison brings calm, reason, and structure to complex, high-pressure programs. She has exceptional collaboration and relationship-building skills, with the ability to align teams, resolve conflict, and move challenging projects forward. Her program management and implementation expertise are second to none.
Alison led implementation for a complex program with more than 200 tactical deliverables, bringing strong ideas, execution discipline, and a drive for excellence. She adds immense value to large-scale project and implementation efforts.
Selected recognition
Integrated content into global campaign frameworks, increasing visibility and engagement.
Led digital marketing strategy for Intel's first activation at the Olympic Winter Games.
Recognized for campaign innovation that brought product stories to new audience segments.
Directed the .com strategy that simplified the PC innovation customer journey.
Leadership approach
I am most useful when the goal is ambitious, the environment is complex, and progress depends on many teams moving together.
My role is to make the work legible: clarify the outcome, surface the real dependencies, create decision mechanisms, and build an operating rhythm people can trust. Then I lead the change required to make the new system stick.
Search focus
I’m brought into complex environments where strategy is clear but execution needs structure—aligning leaders, clarifying priorities, operationalizing change, and creating decision rhythms that move work forward.
Senior Program Manager · Principal Program Manager · Senior Principal Program Manager · Technical Program Manager · AI Program Manager · Enterprise Transformation Lead · PMO Director · Portfolio Operations · Product Operations · Strategy & Operations · Business Operations · Chief of Staff · NPI Operations
AI Strategy · AI Adoption · AI Enablement · Generative AI · AI-Enabled Workflows · Dragonboat · Jira · GitHub · Confluence · Portfolio Planning · Roadmapping · OKRs · Operating Model Transformation · PMO Leadership · Executive Reporting · Agile · Scrum · SAFe · Kanban · Cloud Transformation · SaaS Platforms · Change Management · Release Governance · Risk Management · FedRAMP Readiness
I work at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Business Operations, and executive leadership—translating strategy into roadmaps, operating models, adoption plans, governance systems, and measurable execution.
Let's talk
I’m interested in senior-level opportunities across AI Strategy & Operations, Enterprise Transformation, Technical Program Management, PMO Leadership, Product Operations, Portfolio Operations, Strategy & Operations, and Chief of Staff roles—particularly in AI, SaaS, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, fintech, healthcare technology, and enterprise software.