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A parent shares an audio clip that sounds like your executive director making offensive remarks. Within an hour, it spreads online, and reporters call. How would your school respond?
Paul Herbka is an AI and cybersecurity strategist, speaker, author, and advisor who helps organizations use AI to improve how work gets done while managing the security and business risks that come with it.
Paul spent years working in the K-12 education industry during his career at IBM and understands the demands placed on school business and operations teams. Budgets, facilities, vendors, grants, CDE requirements, audits, and reporting all compete for attention, while business managers also need to communicate clearly with boards, administrators, staff, teachers, students, and parents.
Today, Paul works with organizations to find areas where AI can reduce repetitive administrative work, simplify information management, and improve communication. He also helps teams understand where AI should and should not be used, how to protect sensitive information, and when human review is essential.
Paul is particularly interested in helping charter school business managers reduce time spent on day-to-day administrative work. He shares practical ways AI can support finance and operations tasks such as organizing information, reviewing and comparing documents, preparing summaries, and communicating complex information to different audiences.
Paul is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH). He holds an MBA from the University of Denver.