Conversation Design Institute

As Global Head of Sales at CDI, I lead the charge in expanding our reach and impact across the world. My role focuses on aligning innovative sales strategies with our mission to empower businesses at every stage of their conversational AI journey—whether they’re just starting out or scaling to new heights.

With a dual focus on training and consulting, I work to drive growth across CDI’s core offerings, including hands-on workshops, comprehensive audits, and strategic consulting. My goal is to ensure businesses are equipped with the knowledge, tools, and support they need to implement impactful, future-ready conversational AI solutions.

In this role, I’m passionate about building strong partnerships, guiding teams toward success, and contributing to CDI’s evolution as a global leader in conversational AI. Let’s connect and explore how we can shape the future of conversational AI together!

Global Head of Sales

Companies around the world are looking for conversation designers, a rare breed of people that helps them advance communication between people and AI. That's where we help!

Conversation Design Institute teaches a human-centric workflow that has proven itself to organisations around the world. We work closely with tech partners, agencies and other key players in the industry. With this support, Conversation Design Institute is well on its way to becoming the number one platform in conversation design.

Become a certified professional, join one of our online courses, or work with our experts.

Business Development Specialist

Scaled Sales 

Good business coaches are there to help you see the blind spots and serve as your compass to make sure you are heading in the right direction. A business coach serves as an important objective third party to regularly check in to make sure that you are on the most direct path to your ideal destination. Oftentimes, the biggest hurdle to success is that you don't know what you don't know. You can't Google your way out of a problem that you aren't sure how to articulate—or worse, how to anticipate.

One pro for hiring a business coach for yourself is that it allows you to get constructive criticism from someone that doesn’t necessarily know you. 

A business coach is more like a person you're accountable to. No matter what level of success you have attained, there is a tendency to stay in your own lane and not observe habits and patterns that have been successful for others. A strong business coach can help increase awareness of methods and keys to success that have worked for other people and may be analogous to your own situation. 

One of the best investments you can make is in yourself. If you find yourself struggling in your professional career, or desire to increase your sales or improve your business relationship, then a business coach is an invaluable asset. One of the major advantages of having a coach or mentor is that they help you navigate through challenges and meet personal goals with their insights.


Steve Jobs once said, "We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do." Where, if not coaching, could this apply to more? 

One of the biggest benefits of hiring a business coach is that they will help you stay on the right track. Building a business is tricky, especially if you're a startup. It's also very easy to get distracted by all the opportunities that come your way, but you can't possibly do it all. The key is setting the goals, developing the action plan on how to reach these goals and executing to make them happen.

Business Consultant

Yell 

Senior Sales Manager

Fingo - AMi

Digital Strategy Director

As a Business Development Specialist at Conversation Design Institute (CDI), I help organizations around the world create human-centric AI Assistants, such as chatbots and voice assistants. 

At CDI, I work closely with tech partners, agencies, and other key players in the industry to offer high-quality e-learning programs and live sessions for teams and individuals. I have trained hundreds of professionals in strategy, design, and development for AI Assistants, using our proven workflow and best practices.

My goal is to empower more people to design, deploy, and manage valuable conversational experiences.

Benjamin Taylor

I’m lucky enough to get to hear the episodes coming out of the academy before anyone else. 

So much of this episode struck me that I was blown away. 

Hillary Black  clearly gets it and we are unbelievably proud to have her as part of the community.

Global Head of Sales | Driving Growth in Conversational AI | Training, Auditing & Consulting Leader

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We’re still at the beginning of conversational AI’s potential.

While prompting and new tools may make it feel like we’re starting over, this time the context is different. The widespread attention around AI has raised the baseline understanding across companies, brands, and individuals.

Many still don’t fully understand what conversational AI or conversation design truly means—but the conversation has changed. Today, people come in more informed, more curious, and more ready to explore what’s actually possible.

Join Hillary Black , conversation designer at MAV in the new episode of unprompted. by CDI. 

Watch the full video here https://hubs.la/Q03YBjZB0

That shift opens the door to deeper, more meaningful progress.
#ConversationalAI #ConversationDes

Capgemini

Develop, deploy and optimize 10+ Data Pipelines to
support batch processing with Python, Airflow, andElasticsearch. 
Ensure Scalability of pipelines and modular approach. Documenting the Pipelines for troubleshooting issues. Manage AI Chatbot with GPT-3.5, 4. 
Manage Snowflake Data Sharing for multiple tables withDynamic Tables.

Sr. Software Engineer

Deloitte

To manage and build the core logic behind Data Migration Automation Python scripts. 

To migrate Unstructured & Large data using Pandas, lxml, Excel, Bs4 and AWS services like AWS Lambda, RDS.

Software Analyst

Mobio Solutions

To manage and build web apps using Python/Django, Django-Rest, Html, JavaScript,Docker, Mysql, Postgres & AWS Services like Lambda, EC2 , Elastic encoder, Cloudfront & Cloudwatch.

To handle interns and junior devs, to distribute work among them and help them navigate through projects.

To build and deploy end to end projects.

Software Engineer

DataVizz

To develop Alexa skills for B2C using AWS Lambda, AWS S3, AWS Cloud Formation,Alexa Proactive Notifications,API Gateway,RDS, third party apis like Zapier. To develop  conversational flows using Textit. 
Manage and Provide feature integration for Voice Based Apps using Dialog Flow and Alexa.

Python Developer

Seasoned software developer with hands-on experience in Python, Pandas, Django, and AWS, combined with deep expertise in Generative AI, Agentic AI, and frameworks like CrewAI and LangChain. Adept at building scalable, cloud-native applications, integrating AI-powered voice assistants (Alexa) into modern web platforms, and delivering intelligent automation solutions.

Proven track record in:

Building data-driven applications with advanced analytics.

Developing and deploying GenAI workflows that optimize business operations.

Architecting and maintaining robust end-to-end solutions using full-stack development tools.

Leveraging LLMs, RAG pipelines, and voice interfaces to drive user engagement.


Open to AI/ML, Python, GenAI, or Cloud Engineering roles. Let’s connect if you’re looking for someone who can bring real-world AI innovation to your team.

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