Jen Stave

Jen Stave is a Practice Leader in Keystone’s Global Strategic Advisory practice and a Partner. She is an executive focused on enhancing organizational value through data and artificial intelligence, with expertise spanning change management, organizational transformation, and emerging technologies.

Most recently, Jen served as the inaugural Director of the Harvard Business School AI Institute, where she built and led Harvard’s primary platform for examining the impact of generative AI on operating and business models. The institute has supported dozens of global enterprises in rethinking their operating models in the age of digital labor.

Prior to Harvard Business School, Jen was a Senior Vice President in the financial services sector, where she led the industrialization of AI strategy and data science capabilities across multiple global lines of business. She built and scaled enterprise-wide analytics and machine learning programs to transform operations, risk management, and customer experience. Earlier in her career, she held roles across academia and consulting, focusing on advanced quantitative methods and organizational performance.

Jen is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, including “The Last Mile Problem Slowing AI Transformation” (2026), “Your AI Strategy Needs More Than a Single Leader” (2025), “Agentic AI Is Already Changing the Workforce” (2025), and “A Guide to Building Change Resilience in the Age of AI” (2025). Her perspectives on the future of work and AI have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist.

She holds multiple U.S. patents related to machine learning applications in risk management and customer communication analytics. Jen currently serves as a board advisor to The AI Lab and has previously served on the Steering Committee for the United Nations’ AI for Good program. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, with a focus on statistics, from American University, and lives in Boston with her husband and two children.

Education

• Ph.D. in Political Science from American University
• B.S. in Business Economics from University of Arizona