Our Founder: Dr. Felicia Newhouse

Dr. Felicia Newhouse is a technologist, researcher, and founder building the leadership infrastructure required for a human-centered AI era.

She is the founder of AI-Powered Women, a global platform anchored by a 1,200-person summit at MIT, a year-round academy, and leadership certification programs designed to equip women leaders—and the organizations and male allies who work alongside them—with practical AI fluency, governance frameworks, and the judgment required to guide both technological and human transformation.

With more than two decades at the forefront of technological change, Felicia has led the development and launch of hundreds of digital products across mobile infrastructure, big data, machine learning, advertising technology, and enterprise SaaS—translating emerging technologies into systems used at scale.

Her work now centers on a critical and often overlooked truth: artificial intelligence is not simply reshaping technology—it is reshaping economic power, workforce structures, and human systems. The question is no longer what AI can do, but who is shaping it in return—and who benefits from that transformation.

While much of the field remains focused on technical advancement, Felicia focuses on the human conditions that determine whether these systems serve or harm—leadership capacity, ethical decision-making, identity, trust, and responsibility at scale.

Through AI-Powered Women, she brings together a rare and necessary convergence of voices—technologists, researchers, anthropologists, philosophers, artists, psychologists, and enterprise leaders—creating spaces where interdisciplinary insight and lived experience are not peripheral, but central to how AI is understood and governed.

At the core of her work is a commitment to women’s economic empowerment in the age of AI. As workforce disruption accelerates, her platform equips women not only to adapt, but to lead—ensuring they are positioned at the forefront of emerging industries, capital flows, and decision-making structures, rather than displaced by them.

Across global stages and inside her academy, she convenes pioneering women—and the allies who recognize the necessity of their leadership—who are actively shaping the trajectory of AI. These are leaders operating at the intersection of technology and human consequence, bringing a broader lens to decisions that will define the future of work, organizations, and society.

Her doctoral research, conducted across MIT, Harvard, and Lesley University, examined how leaders develop the capacity to navigate complexity, disruption, and structural change—particularly women balancing economic leadership with caregiving and societal expectation. This work led to the development of the Leadership Immunity Framework, a model for building resilience, ethical clarity, and adaptive decision-making in moments of transformation.

Felicia speaks globally on AI, leadership, and governance—advancing a clear thesis: the future of AI will not be determined by those who build the technology alone, but by those who have the capacity—and responsibility—to guide it.