Tammy Winner
Tammy Winner, Ph.D., Professor, University of North Alabama
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Dr. Tammy Winner is a Professor of Technical Writing at the University of North Alabama, executive trainer, and Keynote speaker specializing in AI ethics, leadership, and responsible communication. A former NASA Faculty Fellow at Marshall Space Flight Center, she brings a distinctive perspective to the ethical challenges surrounding emerging technologies, information, and human decision-making. Her work focuses on translating complex ethical questions into practical frameworks leaders and professionals can use to determine not simply what AI can do, but what it should do. Through research, teaching, and professional training, Dr. Winner helps organizations navigate AI with greater accountability, transparency, trust, and human judgment.
Area of Expertise
The Human Judgment Lab: A Practical Framework for Ethical AI Decisions
This interactive, hands-on workshop will introduce participants around to a newly constructed Human Judgment Framework regarding workforce AI decision making. Participants bring real AI-use cases from their organizations and learn to evaluate them across issues such as privacy, transparency, bias, accountability, human oversight, consequences of error, and trust.
A full-day structure would look like this:
1. Opening discussion and question: We know AI can do It, but should It? Examining capability as it relates to responsibility.
2. The Human Judgment Framework presented and explained. This is a practical decision model every participant can take away.
3. Ethics Lab #1 — participants work through realistic AI dilemmas using the framework provided.
4. Who Owns the Decision? — accountability when humans and AI share decision-making.
5. The Human Line — identifying decisions that should never be fully delegated to AI.
6. Ethics Lab #2 — teams analyze their own organizational AI use cases.
7. From Principle to Policy — converting ethical intentions into usable organizational guardrails.
8. The 30-Day AI Ethics Action Plan — each participant leaves with specific next steps.
Participants leave the one day event with: a workbook containing a decision matrix, case studies, discussion exercises for their own workspace, AI-use-case assessment sheet, and a one-page “Should We Use AI for This?” checklist.
Same Playground, New Rules: Building Resilient, Empathetic Leaders in an AI-Driven Workplace
Presenters: Tammy Winner, Ph.D., and Michelle Hamilton, CEO
Format: Full-Day Interactive Workshop
Category: Leadership and Professional Development workshop
Workshop Description: Two women. Same playground. Same bully. Fifty years later, two very different paths to success.
What if the experiences that challenged us most became the foundation for our greatest professional strengths?
Fifty years ago, two young girls encountered the same bully on the same playground. Although they shared the experience, they developed different responses to adversity. One cultivated resilience, determination, and courage. The other developed empathy, compassion, and an understanding of others.
Today, those two girls are accomplished professional women and lifelong best friends.
In Same Playground: Different Paths. Powerful Leaders., Tammy Winner, Ph.D., and Michelle Hamilton, CEO, transform their personal story into an engaging, hands-on leadership development experience.
Through storytelling, interactive exercises, small-group challenges, and practical workplace scenarios, participants explore how adversity influences their professional identities, decision-making, relationships, and leadership styles.
At the heart of this workshop is a powerful idea: Adversity does not have to define our limitations. It can become a source of strength.
Participants will discover how to recognize the strengths they have developed through challenging experiences, reframe setbacks as opportunities for growth, and intentionally cultivate resilience and empathy as complementary leadership capabilities.
Using the five-step Scar-to-Strength framework—Recognize, Reframe, Respond, Reconnect, and Rise—participants will move beyond reflection to practical application.
Throughout the day, participants will collaborate on realistic workplace challenges, practice navigating difficult professional relationships, and develop strategies for responding to conflict, uncertainty, criticism, and change.
By the conclusion of the workshop, every participant will have created a personalized Scar-to-Strength Leadership Playbook—a practical resource for transforming personal experiences into professional strengths and leading with greater confidence, empathy, and purpose.
This workshop is not about remaining defined by what happened to us.
It is about discovering who we can become because of what we have learned.
Participant Takeaways
Participants will leave with a personalized Scar-to-Strength Leadership Playbook, practical strategies for addressing workplace intimidation, tools for developing resilience and empathy, techniques for navigating difficult professional relationships, and a 30-day leadership action plan.
Intended Audience
This workshop is designed for professionals at all career stages, including emerging leaders, managers, technical professionals, project leaders, educators, and executives seeking to strengthen their leadership capabilities, improve workplace relationships, and respond more effectively to adversity.
No previous leadership training is required.
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