AI Workforce Strategist · Founder, YourSkills · Stanford LISA Mentor · London Co-Chair, Catalyst Now
I help companies understand who is ready for AI — and what to do about it. Through consulting, workshops, and YourSkills, the AI workforce readiness platform.
Every stage of my career required skills I didn't learn in school. 3 SaaS products, 9M+ users — and every career leap came from skills invisible on my resume. That's exactly what YourSkills solves.
Now building the first AI Workforce Readiness Intelligence platform — Stanford-incubated, backed by NVIDIA Inception and Google for Startups. Passionate about the Future of Work, where AI democratizes opportunity.
AI Workforce Readiness Intelligence platform. We help companies see who is ready for AI, close the skill gaps, and deploy people and AI agents together — through automatic skill tracking, employee AI scoring, and automated action plans.
Mentoring founders globally to turn ideas into viable products — refine positioning, select AI tooling, and optimize product design from the start.
Co-leading the London chapter of Catalyst Now — a global community driving systems change. Organising AI readiness workshops, facilitating cross-sector dialogue, and building bridges between social impact leaders and emerging technology.
Built and launched a tailored edtech platform on financial literacy, including co-founding a high-profile Web3.0 Family Office Mastermind managing a 15-person sales and marketing team.
Built Synergy.online platform and led product development, driving 5x growth in DAU/MAU in 6 months through 44 webinars, 64 events, and 21 edtech courses.
Built platform architecture for managing students' 40K tasks/month, cutting assessment time 7x and reducing costs by 30%.
Launched Skysmart Workbook platform and developed edtech products that attracted 8.5M users and activated 250K educators.
Founded and grew offline school to 100+ students.
Understand where you & your team stands on AI adoption. I run diagnostics using the YourSkills framework — identifying who's ready, who's stuck, and where to invest for maximum ROI.
Full deployment of YourSkills — automatic skill tracking, employee AI scoring, and action plans. See who's ready for AI, close the gaps, deploy people and AI agents together.
Currently a Design Thinking Mentor at LISA — Stanford GSB LEAD Incubator. I guide founders through MVP refinement, AI tooling selection, pitch strategy, and product-market fit.
From MVP to go-to-market — I help founders and product leaders build AI-powered products that solve real enterprise problems. Design thinking, positioning, and customer discovery.
Interactive sessions on AI readiness, future of work, and workforce intelligence. From 60-minute keynotes to full-day workshops with live AI Readiness Scans for your audience.
$200B+ spent on AI tools. 0% visibility into workforce readiness. YourSkills answers: who is ready for AI, who isn't, and what to do about it.
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Maria brings a rare combination of deep expertise, thoughtful insight, and genuine commitment to helping others succeed. Her feedback was always sharp, actionable, and grounded in real-world experience — pushing me to think more strategically while staying focused on what truly matters.
Mariia created an atmosphere that was both structured and highly engaging. What impressed me most was her ability to combine strategic clarity, attention to detail and genuine human connection with the audience.
Maria led an exceptional workshop on Product Management for my team. She crafted personalized content specifically tailored to our products, leading to strong engagement. We took away practical frameworks and tools to leverage in our day-to-day work.
Her ability to push me beyond my comfort zone and encourage out-of-the-box creativity has been truly transformative. Every session leaves me feeling inspired and overflowing with new ideas. This is why I nominated her to receive an award as Top Mentor.
YourSkills isn't just a workforce analytics tool, it's a way for companies to combine the best of people and technology, creating agile, motivated teams ready for constant change.
Thank you for creating this community for us to stay on top of AI tools to upskill and expand our knowledge. I truly appreciate your generosity in investing your own time and industry expertise in helping us.
Her guidance turned scattered experiments into stronger, testable directions and better positioned us for iteration, feedback, and investor conversations. Mariia is insightful, reliable, deeply empathetic, and genuinely invested in empowering the next generation.
YourSkills shows where your gaps are and recommends specifically how you can fill them — whether you should learn something or use AI tools. It directly gives you actionable insights and shows how your skills are relevant to your company.
I particularly appreciated the focus on recognising forms of knowledge and capability that sit outside formal structures, but which carry deep value within communities and social impact spaces.
Mariia has helped to challenge my way of thinking about product and been a great sounding board for different ideas. Her knowledge of iterative product development and understanding buying personas is truly invaluable.
YourSkills directly gives you matches. You're not waiting for someone to figure that out, or a manager to go out to reporting staff. It's the interest of the person as well who will also keep learning.
I really appreciated the clarity and the human-centered perspective on AI as a tool, exactly as it is meant to be used. I personally took away a lot and hope we can all stay connected.
Maria was instrumental in my startup's early stages, helping refine the MVP and guiding AI selection to optimize product design from the start. Her design thinking and strategic insight make her an exceptional collaborator.
You were amazing, thank you for creating a useful learning space related to AI. And Catalyst Now London chapter is lucky to have you as our new co-chair.
Whether you need an AI workforce assessment, a keynote speaker, startup mentoring, or want to deploy YourSkills at your organization — I'd love to hear from you.
potupchikmaria@gmail.com