Press Release: Kari Kelly Joins Boardroom Dominatrix as a Partner
San Francisco, California October 26, 2026. Boardroom Dominatrix, the revenue strategy community founded by fractional Chief Revenue Officer Beatrice Stonebanks, today announced that Kari Kelly, founder of Ethos Advisory, has joined its partner program. Kelly brings experience as a former General Counsel and strategic advisor to technology companies to the community's founders and revenue leaders, many of whom are adding AI tools to their businesses faster than they are setting strategies and establishing guidelines for how those tools handle company and client data.
Kelly's first contribution is "AI Governance in 3 Sessions," a live virtual series held on Wednesdays from 10 to 11 a.m. Pacific. Each session stands on its own, and each one ends with a working tool attendees can use with their own teams.
• October 28: AI Is Already in Your Business. Kelly runs a live inventory exercise drawn from Ethos Advisory's client work, and attendees leave with a one-page AI tool inventory template.
• November 4: Key Things to Check Before You Sign Another AI Tool. Kelly shows where data exposure sits in CRM, marketing and HR vendor contracts, and the group builds a short list of audit questions plus a checklist of clauses to look for.
• November 11: The AI Conversation Your Business Can't Skip. Kelly covers what a basic AI use policy needs to include and where companies get it wrong, and attendees leave with a one-page policy template they can adapt within 30 days.
Registration is open at boardroomdominatrix.com/c/events-0c8f3a. Kelly's partner page is at [https://www.boardroomdominatrix.com/ai-governance]
"The founders in my community make decisions about AI tools every week, and most of them have no one checking what those tools do with client data," said Beatrice Stonebanks, founder of Boardroom Dominatrix. "Kari spent her career on the business side of these decisions inside fast-growing tech companies. With her in the room, our members can deal with that risk before it shows up in a contract negotiation or a stalled enterprise deal."
"Beatrice's members are building real businesses with AI, and they need governance sized for a growing company," said Kari Kelly, founder of Ethos Advisory. "Done well, AI governance gives owners clear rules for their teams and becomes a reason enterprise buyers and investors trust them."
About Kari Kelly
Kari Kelly is Founder and Managing Director of Ethos Advisory, where she helps startups, mid-sized companies and investors build governance to deploy AI safely and scale quickly. She advises management teams and boards on AI strategy and oversight. As a former General Counsel and strategic privacy advisor to high-growth technology companies, Kari has guided executives through data licensing deals and regulatory demands in HealthTech, FinTech and AdTech. She started her career in corporate and IP law at premier German firms before joining an Am Law 100 firm in Palo Alto. Kari built Ethos on the premise that well-designed AI governance earns the trust of enterprise buyers and investors and helps companies move faster. She holds the CIPP/US certification for privacy professionals and is a Regional Co-Lead of Women Defining AI.
About Ethos Advisory
Ethos Advisory helps companies identify the AI tools running across their teams, assess where data and decision-making risk sits, and build governance frameworks that are rigorous, practical and scaled to the business. The firm treats governance as a business strategy: the trust layer that helps companies clear enterprise procurement, attract investment and grow with confidence. Learn more at ethosadvisoryai.com.
Ethos Advisory is a consulting firm and does not provide legal advice.
About Boardroom Dominatrix
Boardroom Dominatrix teaches leaders to grow revenue through respect-based communication, consent and negotiation. Beatrice Stonebanks founded the concept in 2011 to train people in using those skills to get their needs met. In 2015 she brought the framework into corporate teams, and from there into business development and revenue generation, always within the boundaries of a consensual, negotiated and HR-compliant exchange of power. Her forthcoming book, Boardroom Dominatrix: Submit to a New Paradigm, lays out the full method.
The Boardroom Dominatrix online community is where members put that method into practice. Every member consents to a code of conduct on joining, and the community runs on green, yellow and red safewords that let anyone move forward, pause or stop a conversation or session at any time, with no explanation required. Members bring their real work, practice consent-based power in live sessions such as Respect-Based Meetings, and learn a service-driven approach to sales built on how their ideal clients want to buy. Selling to members is prohibited, and guest experts such as Kelly join as partners to teach.
Stonebanks is a fractional Chief Revenue Officer based in Silicon Valley. She began her career in institutional sales on Wall Street, held roles in tech publishing with Reed Elsevier, Thomson and Penton Media, and has consulted with Apple, AWS, Microsoft and early-stage companies through Silicon Valley incubators and accelerators. She also mentors startup founders through StartOut. Learn more at boardroomdominatrix.com.
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