I build technology systems people actually use.
Nickolas Dowler ยท Business Systems Analyst at NVIDIA
Reduced annual COI reviews from 5,000 forms to 400 and cut cycle time from months to hours
Built a transfer system with a single auditable record across stakeholders
Drove a 67% reduction in attrition via cross-functional listening + action loops
What I Do
Keynotes & Conference Talks
AI governance, agentic workflows, adoption, and why self-service fails (and how to fix it).
Workshops for HR/IT/Product
Decision systems that scale, workflow design, adoption engineering, measurement.
Advisory
for leaders building platforms
A short sprint to clarify architecture, governance, roadmap, and the "operating model" that makes the system real.
Featured Writing
SCALES: A Practitioner's Framework for HR Automation That Sticks.
Most HR automation fails because people skip to the tool. SCALES is a six-step method that survives contact with reality.
HR's 83% Problem.
83% of orgs score at the two lowest automation maturity levels. The technology is arriving. The methodology doesn't exist.
Using Claude Safely with Employee PII.
A Red/Yellow/Green framework for what employee data you can share with Claude, what you can't, and how your plan tier changes everything.
Now: What I'm building and learning this month
- Creating end to end workflows in ServiceNow
- Managing stakeholder expectations with live Jira dashboard updates
- Examining use cases for AI governance committee
Connect With Me
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