Expert Profile
Board AI, Cyber, and Privacy Governance
Guides boards in governing AI, cybersecurity, and privacy before the failure, not after it. Specializes in risk-ranking AI use cases, translating technical decisions into boardroom-ready proof of oversight, and making every director personally defensible when regulators and investors come looking.
CEO AI Strategy and Successful Innovation
Advises CEOs on moving from AI experimentation to enterprise value without creating the cyber, privacy, or regulatory exposure that ends careers. Closes data governance gaps that stall deployment and builds privileged documentation that survives regulatory scrutiny.
Fractional Chief AI and Data Officer Leadership
Provides executive-level AI, data, and privacy leadership for organizations that need a proven quarterback for success before the play goes wrong. Assembles the right legal, technical, regulatory, and operational team built around each company’s specific AI, cyber, and privacy risk profile and ensures risk mitigation is embedded in human processes and the tech stack.
Data Governance, Privacy, and Cyber Risk
Three decades of documented outcomes across AI governance, privacy-by-design, HIPAA and SEC, Financial/regulatory compliance, cybersecurity readiness, incident response, and cross-border data governance — zero violations across dozens of major global deployments.
Dominique Shelton Leipzig has built a career studying AI, cyber, privacy, and data governance failures before they happen — and building the systems that make sure they stop somewhere else, not in your company.
As CEO of Global Data Innovation, she leads a legal practice whose singular focus is front-loading those learnings into a privileged governance system built around your specific risk. Her clients have included companies like Microsoft, Nestle, Prudential, Morgan Stanley, and PG&E — with documented outcomes spanning $3.7 trillion in market value creation, zero cyber incidents during periods of 80% sector-wide attack increases, and breach responses that saved comparable companies over $125 million.
Because GDI is a legal practice — not a consulting firm — every AI framework, cyber assessment, privacy program, and data governance system built with a CEO or a Board lives inside attorney-client privilege from the moment it is created. When the investor inquiry opens, the class action is filed, or the regulatory subpoena arrives, the work product is protected. No consulting firm, no Big 4 practice can say that.
Dominique does not just apply the law. She shapes it. Legislators and regulators in both the US and EU have called on Dominique for decades to advise on AI, privacy, and cybersecurity laws before they are drafted. She regularly briefs EU Parliament members in Brussels, and advises UK Parliament members. US senators call her before legislation is written. Her clients don’t track regulation — they are already aligned with tomorrow’s rules while their competitors read last quarter’s.
4 X book author, her latest Trust: Responsible AI, Innovation, Privacy and Data Leadership (2024 getAbstract Business Impact Award) · Creator, Patent-Pending TRUST AI Governance Framework · TEDx Top 5 Speaker 2024 (1.6M+ views) · ADWEEK AI Trailblazers Power 100 · Forbes 50 Over 50 Innovator · Financial Times Agenda Board Future 50 · Diligent Modern Governance 100 · Founder, Digital Trust Summit · Bloomberg TV and CBS News contributor
Dominique serves on the Board of Directors of Harris and Associates and on RSL Media’s Policy Governance Board, where she is also RSL’s Designated Rights Protection Advisory Counsel.
