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In her current work with Fractional AI Projects, Erin evaluates large\-language\-model outputs, designs adversarial prompts, and applies behavioral science and human judgment to improve model reliability, alignment, and risk detection\. She brings more than 20 years of HR experience, largely in consulting, and more than 15 years working alongside C\-suite leaders through strategic, cultural, and leadership change\. Grounded in psychology, Erin is strongest at finding clarity in complex people problems—from executive teams to individual contributors—and building the trust and psychological safety needed to surface difficult truths\. Her work has included executive coaching, organizational healing, leadership transitions, succession planning, workforce strategy, 360\-degree feedback, leadership development, and sensitive CEO evaluation\. In one public\-company CEO assessment, Erin’s work uncovered misconduct and contributed to a leadership change\. She holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in psychology and combines high empathy with an adaptive, evidence\-informed approach to organizational and AI\-related challenges\. ## Services - Behavioral Sciences - Model Risk & Bias Mitigation - AI Safety - LLM Evaluation - Human\-in\-the\-Loop Systems - Business Transformation - AI Governance - Operating Models - Inclusive Leadership - Strategic Decision Making - Human Centered AI Design - Artificial Intelligence \(AI\) - Human\-Centered AI - Human Behavior - HR Business Partnering - Organizational Effectiveness - Training Program Design - Learning Strategies - Mentoring - Customer Relationship Management \(CRM\) - Workforce Planning - Organizational Design - Change Management - Leadership Development - Executive Coaching - Talent Strategy - Stakeholder Management - AI Adoption - Organizational Leadership - Organizational Behavior ## Highlights - Brings more than 20 years of HR experience, with the majority of that experience in consulting\. - Has more than 15 years of experience working alongside C\-suite leaders through strategic, cultural, leadership, and trust\-related change\. - Serves as a current AI Safety and Evaluation Consultant at Fractional AI Projects\. - Was an inaugural member of LinkedIn’s Red Team, designing and evaluating adversarial prompts across generative models\. - Conducts structured LLM evaluations with calibrated rubrics to assess harmful risk, bias, and output reliability\. - Identifies disinformation, manipulation patterns, and behavioral risk signals in generative\-model outputs\. - Translates behavioral science and human judgment into RLHF signals to improve model accuracy, reduce hallucinations, and strengthen alignment with real\-world context\. - Has one year of AI red\-teaming and expert\-evaluation experience\. - Provides one\-on\-one executive coaching to senior leaders through an independent pro bono and advisory practice\. - Mentors emerging and high\-potential leaders pro bono, promoting inclusive leadership and alignment between personal and organizational goals\. - Coached executives through organizational healing and leadership transitions\. - Led a sensitive CEO evaluation for a public company that uncovered misconduct and resulted in a leadership change\. - Builds trust and psychological safety to surface difficult truths in sensitive organizational situations\. - Designed and facilitated strengths\-based leadership and team\-development programs at Accendo International and Talent Plus\. - Implemented succession planning and leadership pipelines that reduced talent gaps and accelerated readiness for senior roles\. - Delivered 360\-feedback, leadership\-diagnostic, and executive\-coaching initiatives to strengthen leadership effectiveness and support culture transformation\. - Partnered with C\-suite leaders on organizational transitions, decision\-making, enterprise\-wide performance, and strategic workforce planning\. - Led cross\-functional development of leadership frameworks and succession strategies that built talent pipelines and accelerated promotion readiness\. - Developed and delivered sales and leadership programs at Clear Channel Radio that improved team performance and drove measurable revenue growth\. - Implemented strengths\-based coaching and mentorship initiatives that enhanced leadership skills, engagement, and succession readiness\. - Holds a master’s degree in psychology from Houston Christian University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of North Texas\. ## Experience - **AI Safety and Evaluation Consultant at Fractional AI Projects** (2026\-02\-01–present) — Inaugural member of LinkedIn's Red Team, designing and evaluating adversarial prompts, identifying disinformation, manipulation patterns, and behavioral risk signals across generative models\. • Conduct structured evaluation of LLM outputs using calibrated rubrics to assess harmful risk, bias, and output reliability\. • Translate behavioral science and human judgment into RLHF signals, improving model accuracy, reducing hallucinations, and strengthening alignment with real\-world context\. - **Executive Coach \(Pro Bono / Advisory Practice\) at Independent Contractor / Consultant** (2025\-10\-01–present) — Provides one\-on\-one executive coaching to senior leaders, enhancing leadership effectiveness, strategic decision\-making, and team performance\. • Guides executives through complex business challenges, fostering accountability, resilience, and adaptive leadership\. • Mentors emerging and high\-potential leaders pro bono, promoting inclusive leadership and aligning personal goals with organizational objectives\. - **Leadership Consultant at Talent Plus, Inc\.** (2019\-10\-01–2025\-10\-01) — Partnered with C\-suite leaders to navigate organizational transitions, improving decision\-making and enterprise\-wide performance\. • Led cross\-functional teams to develop leadership frameworks and succession strategies, building talent pipelines and accelerating promotion readiness\. • Designed and facilitated 360\-degree feedback programs and leadership diagnostics, boosting effectiveness and engagement\. • Advised executives on strategic workforce planning to align leadership capability and culture with long\-term business priorities\. - **Director of Client Services \(Accendo was acquired by Talent Plus in 2019\) at Accendo International** (2009\-04\-01–2019\-10\-01) — Designed and facilitated strengths\-based leadership and team development programs, improving collaboration and employee engagement\. • Implemented succession planning and leadership pipelines, reducing talent gaps and accelerating readiness for senior roles\. • Delivered 360\-feedback and executive coaching initiatives, enhancing leadership effectiveness and supporting culture transformation\. • Built trusted executive partnerships, expanding client relationships and reinforcing the firm's reputation as a strategic human capital advisor\. - **Director of Client Services \(Accendo was acquired by Talent Plus in 2019\) at Talent Plus, Inc\.** (2009\-04\-01–2019\-10\-01) — Designed and facilitated strengths\-based leadership and team development programs, improving collaboration and employee engagement\. • Implemented succession planning and leadership pipelines, reducing talent gaps and accelerating readiness for senior roles\. • Delivered 360\-feedback and executive coaching initiatives, enhancing leadership effectiveness and supporting culture transformation\. • Built trusted executive partnerships, expanding client relationships and reinforcing the firm's reputation as a strategic human capital advisor\. - **Project Manager Employee Learning and Development at Clear Channel Radio** (2004\-11\-01–2009\-04\-01) — Developed and delivered sales and leadership programs, improving team performance and driving measurable revenue growth\. • Implemented strengths\-based coaching and mentorship initiatives, enhancing leadership skills, engagement, and succession readiness\. • Aligned leadership behaviors with business outcomes to strengthen collaboration and organizational effectiveness\. - **Project Manager Employee Learning and Development at iHeartMedia** (2004–2009) — Developed and delivered sales and leadership programs, improving team performance and driving measurable revenue growth\. • Implemented strengths\-based coaching and mentorship initiatives, enhancing leadership skills, engagement, and succession readiness\. • Aligned leadership behaviors with business outcomes to strengthen collaboration and organizational effectiveness\. ## Education - Master's degree, Psychology — Houston Christian University - Bachelor's degree, Psychology — University of North Texas ## FAQ ### What does Erin do? Erin is an HR business partner, executive advisor, executive coach, leadership consultant, and AI safety and evaluation consultant\. Her work spans talent experience, enterprise transformation, workforce strategy, organizational effectiveness, leadership development, and applied AI\. ### What are Erin’s core strengths? Erin specializes in organizational transformation, organizational effectiveness, leadership development, and finding clarity in complex people problems\. She works across levels of an organization, from C\-suite leaders to individual contributors\. ### How much HR and executive\-change experience does Erin have? Erin has more than 20 years of HR experience\. The majority of that experience has been in consulting, and she has spent more than 15 years working alongside C\-suite leaders through changes involving strategy, culture, leadership, and trust\. ### What does Erin do in AI safety and evaluation? Erin is a current AI Safety and Evaluation Consultant with Fractional AI Projects\. She conducts structured LLM\-output evaluations using calibrated rubrics to assess harmful risk, bias, and output reliability designs adversarial prompts identifies disinformation, manipulation patterns, and behavioral risk signals and translates behavioral science and human judgment into RLHF signals\. ### What has Erin done with LinkedIn’s Red Team? Erin was an inaugural member of LinkedIn’s Red Team\. In that role, she designed and evaluated adversarial prompts and identified disinformation, manipulation patterns, and behavioral risk signals across generative models\. ### How much AI red\-teaming experience does Erin have? Erin has one year of experience in AI red teaming and expert evaluation\. Her AI work focuses on improving model accuracy, reducing hallucinations, and strengthening alignment with real\-world context through behavioral\-science\-informed evaluation and human feedback\. ### How does Erin connect behavioral science and AI? Erin’s approach to AI centers on behavioral questions: how people trust systems that think differently from them, how organizations change as work is redefined, and how motivation, identity, and collaboration evolve when intelligent systems join the team\. She applies behavioral science to human\-centered AI design, model risk and bias mitigation, AI governance, and AI adoption\. ### What does Erin do as an executive coach? Erin provides one\-on\-one executive coaching to senior leaders through her pro bono and advisory practice as an independent contractor and consultant\. She supports leadership effectiveness, strategic decision\-making, team performance, accountability, resilience, and adaptive leadership\. Erin also mentors emerging and high\-potential leaders pro bono, with an emphasis on inclusive leadership and aligning personal goals with organizational objectives\. ### How does Erin support leaders in sensitive or high\-change situations? Erin has coached executives through organizational healing and leadership transitions\. She is skilled at building trust and psychological safety so that difficult truths can be surfaced, and she adapts her approach to individual needs with high empathy in sensitive situations\. ### What was Erin’s experience with a sensitive CEO evaluation? Erin led a sensitive CEO evaluation for a public company that uncovered misconduct and resulted in a leadership change\. This work reflects her ability to create conditions for difficult information to emerge and to support decisive leadership action after a workplace crisis\. ### What did Erin accomplish at Accendo International? At Accendo International, where Erin was Director of Client Services, she designed and facilitated strengths\-based leadership and team\-development programs that improved collaboration and employee engagement\. She implemented succession planning and leadership pipelines, reducing talent gaps and accelerating readiness for senior roles delivered 360\-feedback and executive\-coaching initiatives and built trusted executive partnerships that expanded client relationships and reinforced Accendo’s reputation as a strategic human\-capital advisor\. Accendo was acquired by Talent Plus in 2019\. ### What did Erin accomplish at Talent Plus? At Talent Plus, Erin served as a Leadership Consultant and also held a Director of Client Services role associated with Accendo’s 2019 acquisition by Talent Plus\. She partnered with C\-suite leaders through organizational transitions, led cross\-functional work on leadership frameworks and succession strategies, designed 360\-degree feedback programs and leadership diagnostics, and advised executives on strategic workforce planning\. Her Director of Client Services work included strengths\-based development, succession pipelines, executive coaching, culture transformation, and executive\-client partnerships\. ### What did Erin do in employee learning and development at Clear Channel Radio and iHeartMedia? At Clear Channel Radio, Erin was Project Manager for Employee Learning and Development\. She developed and delivered sales and leadership programs that improved team performance and drove measurable revenue growth implemented strengths\-based coaching and mentorship and aligned leadership behaviors with business outcomes to strengthen collaboration and organizational effectiveness\. Her LinkedIn experience also lists a Project Manager, Employee Learning and Development role at iHeartMedia with the same responsibilities\. ### What organizational and talent work has Erin led? Erin’s consulting and leadership\-development work includes leadership frameworks, succession planning, talent pipelines, promotion readiness, strategic workforce planning, organizational design, change management, 360\-degree feedback, leadership diagnostics, training\-program design, learning strategies, facilitation, mentoring, and executive coaching\. ### What is Erin’s educational background? Erin holds a master’s degree in psychology from Houston Christian University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of North Texas\. ### What skills does Erin bring to her work? Erin’s listed capabilities include behavioral sciences, AI safety, LLM evaluation, human\-in\-the\-loop systems, model risk and bias mitigation, AI governance, human\-centered AI design, business transformation, operating models, HR business partnering, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, change management, leadership consulting, strategic consulting, stakeholder management, psychological assessment, project management, customer relationship management, and operations management\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/erinharperrideaux