Dr. Hong Gui is Founder and Principal Consultant of Laurel Consulting LLC, where she advises executive leaders on organizational design and leadership strategies for the AI era. She holds a Ph.D. in Physics and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Dr. Gui began her career at Teradata, designing large-scale enterprise data systems, and later spent more than a decade leading enterprise data strategy and governance at a major academic health system. Drawing on experience across technology, business operations, and leadership, she helps organizations rethink how leadership, governance, and operating models must evolve to realize the full value of data and AI.

She is the author of Empowerment: A Holistic Approach to Building Healthy Data Ecosystems and writes about executive leadership, organizational capability, and enterprise transformation in the age of data and AI.