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Digital natives grew up online. AI-native leaders are made.

HALDEMAN is an AI advisory for executives making that move: in your own work, with every team you lead, and in the roadmap you own.

Our view

An AI-native executive leads from the front: they see further with AI, and the decision stays theirs. That practice sets the pace for the teams they build and the roadmap they own.

They bring AI to the question and judgment to the call.

AI-native

  1. Absent
  2. Individual
  3. Pockets
  4. Standard
  5. Managed
  6. Improving
Our bar: an organization reads as AI-native when every element that applies is graded at Standard or above.

Individual and Pockets are real progress. Standard is the bar, with Managed and Improving above it.

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  • 0 · Absent
    • Nothing is there
  • 1 · Individual
    • Exists as personal effort; it leaves when the person does
  • 2 · Pockets
    • Some groups have it; no shared standard
  • 3 · Standard
    • Defined, written, and actually followed across the organization
  • 4 · Managed
    • Measured against targets and reviewed on a cadence
  • 5 · Improving
    • The system upgrades itself; what is learned becomes the new standard

Why HALDEMAN

AI-native starts at the top. So do we.

01

We hold AI-native to a bar.

What leaders hear and what the work shows can differ. So every team is graded from the work itself, against the same bar.

02

You choose what comes first.

Teams watch how their leaders work, so in our view your own practice is the catalyst. Each service stands on its own.

03

Yours to keep.

What’s owned gets done. Every insight leaves with an owner, a date, and a measure, and the plan is yours to run, with us or anyone.

How working with us runs

Leadership

Led by its founder, Cory Haldeman.

Three companies, from the digital shift to the AI one.

01

Leading digital transformation · Verizon

Part of the team that drove Verizon’s digital transformation, leading the development of the organic marketing engine behind $484 million in incremental revenue. Led the modernization of Verizon’s content supply chain and the replatforming of its experience architecture.

02

Deploying GTM transformation · Adobe

Rebuilt Adobe’s big-deal go-to-market engine, with a global co-selling model behind more than $1 billion in total contract value. Founded Adobe’s alliance with McKinsey, BCG, and Bain to build board-level AI strategies for AI-led transformation.

03

Building AI transformation · Code and Theory

Advised on getting value from AI for a Midwest retailer, a West Coast quick-service restaurant, a financial institution, and a global software provider.

Cory Haldeman

Let’s get you there.

Start with a conversation about where you and your teams stand today.

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