Dominique Shelton Leipzig

Dominique Shelton Leipzig is the CEO and founder of Global Data Innovation Inc. a legal advisory consulting firm dedicated to guiding CEOs and Board Members through strategies to achieve exponential growth with data and minimize harms associated with data misuse.  As a former Big Law partner, she has spent over 33 years counseling CEOs, Board Members and other leaders on on smart digital governance. She has trained 50,000+ professionals in AI, privacy and cyber. For decades, Dominique has studied legal trends to accurately forecast digital risks and opportunities. Companies, with a collective market cap of 3 trillion USD have benefited from her insights. Trust. Responsible AI, Innovation, Privacy & Data Leadership is her fourth book.Trust is a national best-seller, winner of the getAbstract’s Business Impact Book of the Year in Frankfurt 2024. It distills trends in 100 countries into six key governance steps to minimize risks that every leader should know. It is the recipient of the getAbstract Business Impact Award bestowed at the Frankfurt book fair in October 2024. Read A Framework for Assessing AI Risk, covering Dominique’s talk at MIT about the book.

Her articles include a Financial Times op-ed concerning cross-border transfers, that the White House adopted. She founded the Digital Trust Summit for leaders to reimagine effective data oversight. Named a Diligent Modern Governance 100 leader, a Fortune 50 over 50 for Innovation, a “Privacy Vanguard” for achieving “greatness in privacy” and a LA Times “Legal Visionary,” she has won 37 awards.

Her appearances on Bloomberg Television and CBS News provide reference. Dominique has provided master classes on AI for (1) NASDAQ Center for Board Excellence & Wharton Alumni for Boards; (2) NACD’s Technology & Innovation Conference, (3) The Conference Board’s CEO podcast, The CED executive briefings and the ESG committee AI briefing, (4) Diligent’s AI Master Class Certification and Diligent’s Governance 100 conference; (5) BDO’s Board Forum; (6) Berkeley Haas School of Business NextGen Director’s Program; (7) Conscious Capital CEO conference; (8) and the Latino Corporate Board Association Annual Summit, among other locations. She has also presented on the topics of AI, cyber and privacy to the boards of numerous public and private companies in the financial, healthcare, insurance, retail, and technology sectors.  Her TEDx talk released in May 2024 titled “In the Age of AI, Trust is key” was viewed over 1.6 million times on YouTube, making it the 5th highest viewed TEDx talk in 2024. She is certified in AI Governance, and Board Governance.  

A board member of the AI Governance Center and former board member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, she is certified in privacy, artificial intelligence governance and board governance.

Dominique is the co-founder of NxtWork, dedicated to exceptional and diverse leadership through meaningful engagement around ideas.