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Maasha Kah, AI Execution Strategist and Founder of Right Distraction

Maasha Kah is an AI execution strategist and founder of Right Distraction, helping mission-driven leaders build practical human-AI systems that expand capacity without sacrificing judgment, trust, and humanity.

As AI capabilities accelerate, our advantage will depend on how deliberately we design the partnership.

Maasha KahMaasha Kah, founder of Right Distraction
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Quick facts

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  • Founder of Right Distraction
  • 15+ years of cross-sector leadership across Google, Uber, Eventbrite, and DocuSign
  • Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Social Impact, Uber Freight (2022–2025)
  • Senior Director, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Uber (2021–2022)
  • Head of Outreach & Inclusion, DocuSign (2020–2021)
  • Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Eventbrite (2018–2020)
  • Diversity Corps Lead & Google.org Lead, Google (2013–2018)
  • M.S., University of Pennsylvania
  • B.A. in Economics, Columbia University (Barnard College)
  • 2024 Women in Supply Chain — DEI Pioneer
  • Princeton Prize for Race Relations

Former roles reflect operating experience; they are not clients or endorsers.

Point of view

What's at stake

Mission-driven CEOs, COOs, and leadership teams responsible for translating AI interest into reliable daily work.

Organizations are adopting AI faster than they are redesigning work and equipping people to participate. They have tools and ambition, but lack coherent workflows, inclusive adoption, safeguards, and measurable results — creating fragmented execution, uneven access, and people being left behind.

Maasha's answer is better-designed human-AI partnership: practical execution paired with inclusive participation, change management, human judgment, trust, safeguards, and measurable outcomes.

The next AI divide will not simply be who has access to the tools. It will be who knows how to combine machine capability with human judgment in everyday work.

Vision

A world where humans excel with AI — and AI excels with humans.

That means designing systems that amplify human judgment, creativity, relationships, and purpose — not erase them.

Human-AI partnership

How human judgment, creativity, relationships, and purpose make AI more effective — and how AI, well-designed, makes people more capable in return.

Practical AI execution

Moving from scattered tools and experiments to usable workflows, inclusive adoption, safeguards, and measurable capacity.

The human systems behind technological change

Trust, power, culture, equity, accountability, behavior, and organizational change — including who is at risk of being left behind.

Expertise

What Maasha can speak to

Concrete territory — with the questions she can answer for your audience or story.

Human-AI partnership & human-centered adoption

Designing work so people and AI each do what they do best, with judgment kept in human hands.

What does a healthy human-AI workflow actually look like? Where should AI assist and where must people decide?

Inclusive adoption & who gets left behind

Making sure AI capacity reaches the whole team, not only the early adopters — and closing the participation gap.

Who is at risk of being left behind by AI at work, and what can leaders do about it now?

Practical AI execution for mission-driven organizations

Turning scattered tools and pilots into coherent, safeguarded workflows that produce measurable capacity.

How does a lean, mission-driven team move from AI experiments to reliable daily work?

AI, leadership & organizational change

The leadership and change-management work that decides whether an AI rollout sticks.

Why do most AI initiatives stall, and what leadership behaviors make them succeed?

The future of work & human judgment

How roles, skills, and decision-making shift as AI capability accelerates — without diminishing people.

What stays distinctly human as AI gets more capable?

Responsible adoption, trust & accountability

The safeguards, transparency, and accountability that earn trust in AI-assisted work.

What does responsible AI adoption look like in practice for a leadership team?

Organizational impact, equity & belonging

Fifteen years of cross-sector experience building culture, equity, and belonging at scale.

How do equity and belonging shape whether new technology helps or harms an organization?

Small-team capacity & the AI Executive Office

Giving small teams the leverage of a much larger one through well-designed human-AI systems.

How can a small team punch far above its weight with AI — responsibly?

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