Use AI Like You Mean It: Personal Brand, AI Fluency, and Leading with Dignity with Gabrielle Kohlmeier

Knowing AI exists is one thing. Knowing how to use it in a way that sounds like you, supports how you lead, and strengthens your personal brand is something else entirely. That gap is where a lot of professionals are stuck.

Gabrielle Kohlmeier has spent years helping people move through that gap with more clarity and confidence. As a lawyer, tech leader, and transformation executive who led global legal AI adoption at one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, she brings a practical, strategic, and dignity-centered perspective to the conversation. Her approach is rooted in grit, growth mindset, and a belief that change should be led with intention.

In this episode of Branding Room Only, Paula T. Edgar and Gabrielle Kohlmeier explore why AI fluency matters for personal branding, how to use AI as a thought partner without flattening your voice, and how the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession’s 21-Day Grit and Growth Mindset AI Challenge helps professionals build confidence, fluency, and momentum.

1:23 – Gabrielle’s complicated relationship with personal branding

3:49 – Three short self-descriptive phrases for Gabrielle, two favorite quotes, and her eclectic mix of hype music

7:18 – How Gabrielle’s unique childhood turned into a powerful lens for reading the room, understanding multiple perspectives, and leading with humility and curiosity

9:34 – Gabrielle’s entry into law and discovery of growth mindset

12:18 – What grit and growth mindset mean and why Gabrielle is so passionate about these concepts

17:05 – How Gabrielle’s 21-Day Grit and Growth Mindset AI Challenge helps build your AI fluency and moves you from fear into informed experimentation

28:08 – How Gabrielle uses AI tools to process things out and why you might feel hesitant about adopting AI

34:24 – Why women and underrepresented professionals need to engage in AI for governance, branding, and positioning purposes

39:58 – Favorite AI tool, how Gabrielle uses it in her work and personal life, and why AI isn’t perfect 

43:18 – One of Paula’s favorite use cases for AI and why it produces more valuable outputs

46:00 – How to start using AI in a way that enhances your voice rather than replaces it

49:24 – Why Gabrielle will never compromise on dignity in terms of her brand as technology advances

50:56 – How Gabrielle uses AI when traveling and exploring for fun

52:59 – The no-seats-left, standing-room-only experience Gabrielle brings to the room

Mentioned In Use AI Like You Mean It: Personal Brand, Fluency, and Leading with Dignity with Gabrielle Kohlmeier

21 Days of AI: A Grit and Growth Mindset Challenge 

The Grit and Growth Mindset Project on ABA

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Sponsor for this episode

PGE Consulting Group LLC empowers individuals and organizations to lead with purpose, presence, and impact. Specializing in leadership development and personal branding, we offer keynotes, custom programming, consulting, and strategic advising—all designed to elevate influence and performance at every level.

Founded and led by Paula Edgar, our work centers on practical strategies that enhance professional development, strengthen workplace culture, and drive meaningful, measurable change.

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