ActionableOps

ActionableOps is an AI consulting company that helps businesses unlock AI's potential to excel in their operations. We specialize in guiding companies through the AI landscape with services such as AI governance, Responsible AI, AI Policy development, AI Ethics, AI Training, and AI Implementation. Partnering with industry leaders like Textcortex and MindStudio, we ensure that our clients gain the knowledge and tools needed to thrive with AI.

Founder / AI Consulting

Kansas City AI Club

Primary Purpose: Foster awareness, adoption, and hands-on learning of the latest AI technologies by leading discussions, events, and workshops tailored to real-world business applications.

Key Responsibilities:
 - Technology Trends Leadership in AI
 - Curate and present emerging AI technologies (e.g., generative AI, voice agents, AI-driven automation).
 - Deliver accessible, business-focused insights on cutting-edge advancements.
 - Business Use Case Applications
 - Develop and showcase practical AI use cases (e.g., AI in customer service, operations, or marketing).

Workshops & Education
 - Organize hands-on workshops to teach members how to apply AI in real-world business settings.
 - Guide participants through implementation frameworks tailored to their industries.
 - Event Programming Support
 - Host and facilitate demos at Kansas City AI Club meetups.
 - Develop quarterly in-person or virtual workshop series, such as "AI Applications for Business Success."

Board Chair - Emerging Tech

UMKC Henry W. Bloch School of Management

The Regnier Institute Mentor in Residence Program connects seasoned mentors with student entrepreneurs in need of a helpful ear.

Mentor-In-Residence

National Speakers Association-Kansas City Chapter

Speaker

MindStudio

Agency Partner

RunWhen

RunWhen is a platform for troubleshooting complex tech stacks. It helps engineers identify when issues they are chasing lie in their app, their cloud-native platform or their vendors by answering the question: “What do I run and when?”

Advisor

Nobl9

Nobl9 is a service level objective SaaS platform that connects reliability metrics to business goals via a modern engineering workflow. Backed by CRV, Battery, Bonfire Ventures, Harmony Partners Cisco and ServiceNow.

Director of Operations

Code Ninjas

Code Ninjas is the world's largest and fastest growing in person children's franchise startup, that teaches kids how to code computers by building video games. Backed by Eagle Merchant Partners.

Director of Operations / Owner

OMT Brands

OMT Brands created a line of consumable pet products to be marketed and sold online through Amazon FBA and the Amazon, Ebay, Sears, and Walmart marketplaces.

Director of E-commerce Operations

City of Lakewood, Washington

Police Officer

🚀 Founder | Startup Operations Executive | Business Scaling Expert | Data Analytics | P&L Management | Process Optimization | Customer-Centric | Revenue Growth | Operational Efficiency | SaaS | Change Management

I’m Dale Thomas and here’s my story in a nutshell. 

- Authored the best-selling book “The Ultimate A.I. Guide for Small Business Success.” 
- Founded several technology businesses
- 20+ years of operations experience in Start-Ups and Enterprise (Ex - Microsoft) 
- Focused on helping SMB’s make sense of AI.  I specialize in AI agents, AI Consulting, responsible AI, ethical AI, policy creation, governance, and implementation of AI solutions. 

What you’ll get by following me: 
🔥Transparent & actionable AI advice
📆 Tips and Tricks Implementing AI Agents
🔍 Insights on implementing ethical AI practices
📢 Up-to-date information on AI regulations and legislation  

AI Partnerships
* TextCortex AI Partner - get a free account https://textcortex.com?via=ops 

A.I. Education
* MindStudio Certified AI Expert
* The London School of Economics - Ethics of AI 
* University of Pennsylvania - AI For Business
* Vanderbilt University - Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
* MindStudio Certified AI Developer

Struggling to make sense of AI for your small to medium-sized business? 

I’m here to help - so hit that “Follow” button!  

Dale

Dale Thomas

Chief Outsiders

Founded in 2009, Chief Outsiders is now the country's largest strategic growth implementation company. Chief Outsiders provides fractional marketing and sales leaders to growing companies. Fractional (noun): Occupying a permanent leadership seat in a business in a fraction of the time thought necessary.

Our CMOs and CSOs have served on the leadership teams of more than 1,000 companies across 80+ industries. We provide CEOs and private equity firms with proven senior executives who develop, drive, and execute marketing and sales strategies and growth initiatives. In addition, we offer the flexibility and cost advantages of project-driven engagement structures.

Chief Outsiders has been recognized for the past four years by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the US and has recently earned the No. 27 spot on Consulting Magazine’s annual list of the nation’s fastest-growing consulting firms.

Partner & Chief Marketing Officer

Market Intelligence

Market Intelligence, LLC is a general business consultancy with a diverse client base in the technology, medical device, and consumer product sectors. Services include business and sales expansion consulting, C-level mentoring, strategic business plan development, product management, marketing and launch direction, and brand building. 

In addition to her leadership role, Sarah has served as the SVP Marketing/Sales for a rapidly growing medical device firm and as a business consultant to medical device, healthcare, biopharma, venture capital and technology companies.

Chief Executive Officer

Sommetrics

Sommetrics is focused on improving health and well-being by optimizing sleep quality. Using our proprietary aer+ technology, our initial focus is on developing solutions for disorders related to the narrowing of the airway during sleep, such as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and chronic snoring. Our technology, which is utilized in our FDA-cleared and CE-marked acute care product, will allow us to provide solutions to treat these disorders in a more effective and comfortable way than current products – serving a broader market. As we move forward, we will expand our products and services to help improve the quality of sleep for everyone.

SVP Marketing and Sales

Inline Distributing Company

Inline (inlineco.com) is a global supplier of products and equipment for the environmental remediation and restoration industries. Sarah was solely responsible for the management of the national sales, customer service, and marketing departments, in addition to launching private-label products. She acted as liaison between major partnerships and key accounts. Sarah implemented a national rapid expansion strategy, opening three distribution centers in eighteen months. She served as the director of new business and international development.

Chief Sales and Marketing Officer

Immersion Corporation [IMMR]

Immersion Corporation (NASDAQ: IMMR), is the leading developer and licensor of touch feedback technology (www.immersion.com). As VP of marketing, Sarah managed the product management department, the marketing team and the international customer and technical support teams. Sarah worked closely with the sales and engineering teams to execute global growth plans for the medical division, accelerating the development of new virtual reality surgical simulators and services including product localization to increase international sales. The medical and surgical simulators integrate proprietary computer software and tactile feedback robotics to create highly realistic medical simulations that help train clinicians.

VP of Marketing

Cook Medical

Cook Medical is the largest privately held medical device company in world (14,000+ medical device products). Sarah worked closely with the product management teams, engineering department, marketing department, sales teams (internationally), public relations and social media teams and outside contracted organizations to bring medical device products to the market that met physicians' and consumers needs. She worked with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) to gain market feedback about products which was used in product development. She was involved in every stage of the product life cycle.

Global Strategic Marketing  

Hirons & Company, Inc.

Leading Midwest provider of advertising and public relations services.

V.P. New Business Development and Strategy

Clarian Health Partners

Major hospital and health care group in the Midwest.

V.P.Marketing

Partner | CMO | CSO | Board Member | Executive Team Advisor | Growth Strategist | Visionary

Sarah is a dynamic marketing and sales leader with a proven track record of engineering explosive growth for global organizations including Fortune 100 firms, private equity portfolio companies, a $35B medical device manufacturer, and technology, financial, industrial, distribution, healthcare, life science, insurance, retail and B2B service companies. She has extensive experience in solving business challenges, prioritizing initiatives, and building and/or expanding international marketing and sales teams. With her financial background and management expertise, she has led businesses through difficult transitions, mergers, acquisitions, and turnarounds. She has also served as a Board Member for both for-profit and non-profit organizations. 

Sarah is adept at working with management and engineering teams to craft products and services that meet the market's needs. Other strengths include: decisive management, improving shareholder value, ROI maximization, strategic positioning, creative conceptualization, sales, brand management, public relations and social media. She has the experience to inspire cross-functional global teams to exceed business goals and build highly-productive, long-lasting business relationships.

Specialties: Executive Leadership, Global Strategy, Product Marketing, Product Innovation/Launch, Global Brand Management, New Business Development, Sales Management, Event Management, Market Research, Public Relations, Social Media, Team Building, Change Management, Acquisition/Contract Negotiations

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