Katie King is the CEO of AI in Business, a consultancy and training company focused on the practical adoption of artificial intelligence. With a career of more than three decades across marketing, consulting and communications, she works with leadership teams on how AI changes sales, customer experience, workforce skills and the design of everyday business processes.
King is the author of Using Artificial Intelligence in Marketing and AI Strategy for Sales and Marketing, whose second edition addresses a rapidly changing landscape that includes generative and agentic AI. Her work has also included the AI in Schools programme, created to help educational leaders and young people understand the implications of the technology. This combination of commercial and educational activity keeps her focus on adoption, capability and informed use.
Her distinctive perspective is that AI strategy must connect technological possibility with ownership. A useful implementation begins with a business problem, a workflow and a decision about who remains accountable. In marketing and customer experience, she examines where machines can improve analysis, personalisation or execution, and where trust still depends on human context, creativity and judgment.
For leaders, this is increasingly urgent as AI tools move from assisting individuals to acting across processes. The central challenge is no longer whether people can access the technology, but whether the organisation can govern it, develop the required skills and measure worthwhile outcomes. King gives senior teams a structured way to move from interest to application while keeping responsibility visible.