93 - From Corporate Leadership to AI Governance: Theresa Lynn's Incredible Story of Starting Over at 50

Theresa Lynn spent 17 years climbing the ranks at TELUS, from field manager to GM Alberta South to strategic programs director. Then in 2022, a mysterious illness took her out of the corporate world entirely. Kari and Theresa talk about the messy middle of that transition - the shower floor, the fights with a husband who wanted to help, the guilt of relying on someone else's paycheque - before getting into how that unraveling led Theresa to Oxford, to a new industry, and eventually to founding Clarity at Work, an HR and AI governance practice serving business owners across Western Canada. The conversation then turns practical: what AI governance actually means for a small or mid-sized business, why most AI implementations fail, and how to give a team permission to innovate instead of just handing them a list of rules.