Executive AI advisory

Trusted advisors to CEOs in the age of AI

Steiger Bean partners with CEOs and executive teams as they navigate the strategic and organizational shifts introduced by artificial intelligence.

We advise at the top of the house, across the full spectrum from AI education to strategy and organizational change. Our work gives leaders the fluency, judgment, and preparation to set direction for their businesses.

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The partners

Jenni Steiger and Celeste Bean hold Stanford MBAs. Together, they founded and led AI@GSB, Stanford’s Applied AI Initiative, and lecture in the Graduate School of Business Executive Education programs.

Jenni Steiger

Jenni spent six years at BlackRock, most recently serving as Chief of Staff to Chairman and CEO Larry Fink. Her work spanned corporate strategy, executive communications, and cross-functional program leadership, advising the firm’s most senior leaders on how decisions get made and executed at the top of a large, regulated institution.

She led the CEO’s strategy for European markets, the Board of Directors, the Aspen Institute, and the World Economic Forum, where she led BlackRock’s delegation.

Education

MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
BA in Organizational Studies, University of Michigan

Celeste Bean

Celeste spent a decade as a hardware and machine learning engineer. She holds more than 50 patents across machine learning, audio, and haptics, and has trained more than 500 senior executives on AI and strategy.

She worked as an electrical engineer for Benchmark Electronics and conducted research at national laboratories on quantum cryptography and power grid resilience. At PlayStation’s Future Technologies Group she led AI research initiatives, building next-generation hardware prototypes with speech-based large language models.

Education

MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
MA in International Security Studies, University of Arizona
MS in Electrical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara
BS with Honors in Computer Engineering, UC Santa Barbara

Our perspective

A new set of questions for leadership

AI is changing how businesses create value, compete, and organize their people. For CEOs, the implications extend from immediate operating decisions to fundamental questions about the future of the company.

We work alongside leaders to understand what is changing, develop an informed point of view, and determine how their organizations should respond. That perspective evolves as the technology advances and new questions emerge.

What we do

Every engagement begins with an executive dialogue to understand your priorities, your organization, and where you are in your AI journey. Our work is tailored to that context, and every client works directly with our partners.

Executive AI education & judgment

Build a working understanding of AI through hands-on experience and strategic dialogue. Develop the intuition to assess its capabilities, question assumptions, and recognize what matters for your business.

Strategy & investment

Determine where AI can create value and what it will take to realize it. We advise on strategic roadmaps, vendor selection, build-versus-buy decisions, and the economics of adoption.

Change management & talent

Understand how AI changes roles, capabilities, and resourcing needs. We help leaders develop talent strategies, align incentives, and build the internal capability to turn individual productivity into organizational impact.

Governance & accountability

Establish how AI is deployed and used across the organization. Define risk boundaries, data access, and decision ownership so teams can move forward with clear expectations and appropriate oversight.

Board & stakeholder engagement

Develop a clear position on AI and the decisions ahead. We help CEOs articulate the opportunity, explain the tradeoffs, and prepare for informed dialogue with boards, investors, clients, and employees.

An ongoing advisory relationship

We stay close to our clients and are available for a call as questions arise. Whether working through a decision or preparing for a board meeting, we help leaders develop an informed point of view and the confidence to engage stakeholders at every level.

Regular briefings on what matters

We interpret developments in AI technology, the vendor landscape, and the broader economic and competitive environment. We separate signal from noise and provide the business translation: what has changed, why it matters, and what it could mean for your organization.

Access to a broader network of expertise

Our clients benefit from the expert networks we have built at Stanford and throughout our professional careers. We draw on those relationships to bring specialized knowledge and current perspectives to their questions as the technology, and the standard for best practice, continues to evolve.

Contact

Start a conversation

We’re glad to talk through where your organization is and what you’re working on. Write to either partner.

jenni@steigerbean.com celeste@steigerbean.com