About Don Long, Founder of SummitMark

I’m Don. I help teams use AI where it improves the work, and keep it out of the way where it doesn’t.

SummitMark started from something I kept seeing: companies bought the AI licenses, but nobody showed managers how to lead with them. I spent 12+ years in people leadership before building AI systems, and this work sits right between the two.

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Four things I believe about AI at work.

01

Practical education

People learn on their own tasks, in the room, with time to try things. Demos don’t stick.

02

Human judgment

AI can draft. A person still decides, checks the work, and owns the result.

03

Role-based fluency

Employees, managers, and leaders need different skills. One generic training doesn’t fit all three.

04

Real-world application

If it doesn’t change how the work gets done on Monday, it didn’t work.

What I bring to the room.

Enterprise AI Architecture

Claude Certified Architect

LangChain Agentic Engineer

AWS AI Practitioner

Direct technical execution in multi-agent systems, context window design, and enterprise LLM integrations.

Executive Leadership & Strategy

Harvard Business School Online · Leadership Principles

12+ years of people leadership navigating organizational change, workforce development, and operational scaling.

Executive Education & Delivery

Google Generative AI Leader

Designing high-impact workshops and advisory frameworks that translate complex AI engineering into daily management fluency.

“Speed is a personal feeling. Capability is an organizational reality. I build the bridge between the two.”

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