Governance Advisory · Complex Change · Responsible AI
Govern complex change with confidence.
Schroeder Advisory Group helps boards and executive teams navigate complex organizational change through practical governance, clear accountability, and sound judgment, so they can make consequential decisions, move change forward, and preserve trust and organizational effectiveness.
Practice
How We Help
Our work connects strategy with governance and governance with action.
Core Practice
Board and Executive Governance
We help boards and executive teams establish the decision structures, accountability, and leadership alignment required to navigate consequential change. Our work strengthens board effectiveness, clarifies decision rights, and builds governance structures that support sound judgment, timely action, and effective leadership.
The objective is not simply to produce a policy, plan, or framework. It is to help leaders create a practical system for making decisions, assigning responsibility, managing risk, and adapting as conditions change.
Practice Areas
Responsible AI Governance and Adoption
We help organizations adopt and use AI without weakening trust, accountability, professional judgment, or mission.
We are not a technical implementation firm. We help leaders build the practical fluency needed to govern AI responsibly and ask the right questions before, during, and after AI enters the organization.
Strategic Transformation and Implementation
We help organizations translate strategy and major change initiatives into clear roles, practical systems, implementation plans, and measurable progress, so change moves beyond intention and becomes sustainable action.
Organizational Resilience and Crisis Navigation
We support leaders through disruption, transition, institutional risk, restructuring, and other consequential moments, helping them establish priorities, make sound decisions, preserve trust, and prepare the organization for what comes next.
About
Our Perspective
Complex change raises hard questions
Schroeder Advisory Group helps leaders answer those questions and build governance systems that work in the real world.
We believe governance is not a compliance exercise. It is a leadership discipline that creates the conditions for organizations to adapt, innovate, and lead with confidence.
Strong governance provides clarity before complexity arrives. It aligns purpose, accountability, judgment, and stewardship so leaders can make sound decisions, build trust, and guide organizations through change.
Whether the challenge is artificial intelligence, organizational transformation, board leadership, or crisis, the principles remain remarkably consistent.
Schroeder Advisory Group’s perspective is grounded not only in governance principles, but in lived executive experience leading organizations through consequential change where accountability, judgment, and trust had to work in practice.
Organizations evolve. Technology changes. Good governance endures.
Leadership
About Dolores
Schroeder Advisory Group is led by Dolores K. Schroeder, an executive leader, attorney, governance adviser, and strategist with deep experience guiding complex organizations through moments of growth, transition, and systemic challenge.
Most recently, Dolores served as Chief Executive Officer of RAICES, where she led organizational transformation during a period of heightened national scrutiny and unprecedented demand. She strengthened governance, stabilized operations, and built leadership systems capable of sustaining the organization’s long-term impact.
Dolores is adept at stepping into complex, high-stakes environments and identifying the governance and operational issues beneath the presenting challenge. She aligns boards and executive teams around clear decisions and builds the systems, accountability, and leadership capacity needed to move change from intention to sustainable implementation.
Across her career in corporate, global, nonprofit, and board settings, Dolores has worked at the intersection of law, governance, executive leadership, organizational systems, and implementation. She brings a pragmatic, human-centered approach grounded in the belief that durable change requires both ethical clarity and operational discipline.
Dolores helps leaders find and build a responsible path forward when something important needs to change, but the way forward is not yet clear.
Our work is grounded in a simple belief
Good governance gives leaders the confidence to lead through complex change.
Publications & Insights
The Governance Lens
Our writing explores how leaders can preserve human judgment, accountability, and trust as organizations adopt new technologies and navigate complex organizational change.
Through The Governance Lens, we examine the questions that arise when authority, risk, leadership, and organizational responsibility must keep pace with change.
Current articles
“The System Recommended It”
On the one sentence that should make every leader pause — and why AI can inform a decision but can never be held accountable for one. As organizations accelerate AI adoption, the line between “the tool suggested it” and “we decided it” may be the most important governance principle leaders need to protect.
Read on LinkedIn“Human in the Loop Is a Design Choice, Not a Slogan”
“Human in the loop” only works as a safeguard when people know when, why, and how to override the machine. Without clarity on authority, expertise, and support, oversight becomes performative — the person is present, but the judgment is not.
Read on LinkedIn“Governance Is Where AI Value Is Unlocked — or Lost”
A practical, C-suite-level framework for deciding what level of oversight an AI use case actually requires. Not every application carries the same risk, and treating them all the same is its own governance failure.
Read on LinkedIn“Healthy AI Adoption Starts With Telling the Truth About the Tool”
What can it do well? Where does it struggle? What should someone do when the output feels wrong? These are not training footnotes — they are leadership responsibilities, and the organizations that name them clearly are the ones that build real trust in their tools.
Read on LinkedInSpeaking & Facilitation
Keynotes, panels, and board briefings
Her sessions are practical, grounded, and designed to help leaders ask better questions, make sound decisions, and translate governance principles into action.
Dolores K. Schroeder speaks and facilitates for boards, executive teams, professional associations, and industry audiences on:
- AI governance and responsible adoption
- Human judgment and accountability
- Governance for complex organizational change
- Board and executive responsibilities
- Risk-tiered oversight
- Ethics, trust, and organizational decision-making
- Leading change under conditions of uncertainty
Recent and upcoming speaking engagements
Panelist — IFMA / FacilityOS
“Human-in-the-Loop AI in Facilities: Governance, Not Hype”
Presenter — State Bar of Texas
“AI 101 for Nonprofit Lawyers”
Speaking Engagements
To inquire about a keynote, workshop, or board briefing, get in touch below.
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Credentials
Selected Education
- Loyola University ChicagoJuris DoctorMaster of Social Work
- Virginia TechMaster of Natural Resources
- MIT xPROAI Strategy and LeadershipVerify certificate on the issuer’s site
- London School of EconomicsEthics of AIVerify certificate on the issuer’s site
Affiliations
- AIgnite Women Global Champion
- Global Ambassador, Global Council for Responsible AI
- Board Member, Project QUEST
Recognition
- 2025“Change Advocate”Austin Woman Magazine
- 2024“Woman to Watch”Austin Woman Magazine
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Complex change requires more than a policy. It requires clear decisions, human accountability, and governance that works in practice.
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