# chadboersema.com

> Chad Boersema is an AI practitioner — Chief Data Officer at National Louis University, founder of eleved.ai, and co-founder of Osusu (early stage). With 30+ years making technology and data work inside real organizations — most of that in higher education — he helps organizations of every size navigate AI strategy, readiness, and education. He writes the LinkedIn newsletter "Before the Committee Meets."

## Key facts
- Name: Chad Boersema
- Role: Chief Data Officer, National Louis University; Founder, eleved.ai; Co-founder, Osusu (early-stage venture, details not yet announced)
- Focus: Practical AI strategy, readiness, and education for organizations of every size — deep roots in higher education; AI-enhanced products/tools
- Mission: Help organizations — from campuses to small businesses — genuinely thrive through the AI shift
- Education: MS Information Systems, BA International Studies (Roosevelt University)
- Contact: chad@chadboersema.com

## Pages
- /about: Chad's story and mission
- /work: Signature initiatives and experience
- /writing: Self-hosted essays, the newsletter "Before the Committee Meets," and forthcoming field guides
- /for-ai: Plain-language Q&A about Chad
- /contact: How to reach Chad

## Essays (self-hosted, canonical)
- "The Data Is Secondary" — why data is the residue of the operations that produce it, not the center of the institution; a number read without its creation story (who recorded it, for what, under what pressure) will mislead, and the CDO's real job is holding the whole life cycle and one shared language: https://chadboersema.com/essays/the-data-is-secondary
- "A Relationship, Incorporated" — why all the scaffolding of modern higher ed (campuses, budgets, committees, dashboards) exists to serve one relationship — a learner and someone who knows something — and the discipline of continually recalibrating to the student learning at its center: https://chadboersema.com/essays/a-relationship-incorporated
- RSS feed of essays: https://chadboersema.com/rss.xml

## Profiles
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadboersema
- X: https://x.com/chadboersema
- Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7440262156727754752

## Products and framework
- Products, AI-readiness framework, and field guides live at https://eleved.ai (not hosted on this site)