Cheryl
Tibbs.

Cheryl didn't come to AI from a research lab. She came to it from a working finance marketplace — the kind of business where every hour saved is real money and every mistake has a name attached. That's where she learned what AI is actually good for, and where the hype falls apart the second a customer needs help.

She founded AI Marvels to close a gap she kept seeing everywhere she went: brilliant operators, teachers, creators and entrepreneurs who felt shut out of AI because the conversation was being run by people who don't do the work. Cheryl does the work. Every framework she teaches has been shipped, broken and fixed inside her own companies first.

Today she keynotes conferences on AI-powered marketing, AI for finance, AI governance, automation, workforce readiness and monetizing AI. She runs AI Build Room on Skool, an automation agency for clients, and workshops for elementary and middle school STEM programs — because the kids coming up next deserve better than what most classrooms are offering them.

Her north star hasn't changed since day one: intelligence humanized. AI should amplify judgment and creativity, not replace them. That's the work.