“Jacqueline’s promise is that she can teach you to build your first AI agent in one hour, and she delivers on that promise with room to spare.”
“What sets Jacqueline apart is the depth behind her simplicity.”

- Author of three books
- Harvard Trained Negotiator
- Founder, BNEDai
Jacqueline V. Twillie teaches people and teams to build AI agents live.
More than 400 people have built their first AI agent with her. Forbes featured her in September 2026 as one of the peer leaders closing the $5.5 trillion AI skills gap.
Build one live

- 400+
- People taught to build their first AI agent
- 29
- Live Agent Lab sessions, June 29 to September 30
- 32
- Built an AI agent live at Sistas In Sales Summit
- 90.5%
- Of 21 surveyed, confident they could build alone
Free one-hour sessions on Zoom. No code. You leave with a working AI agent for your own work.
Next sessions · Eastern time
New sessions post weekly. See the full calendar on Luma for the next available dates.
How a build works

The five steps from her Negotiation AI Agent Lab at Sistas In Sales Summit. The same order works for any AI agent you build with her. Questions before your first build? Read the plain answers.
- Define a precise objective
One sentence on exactly what you need from the conversation. That’s the AI agent’s anchor.
- Upload explicit instructions
A core document that tells the AI agent how to process facts and anticipate objections.
- Turn on self-improvement
The AI agent keeps your corrections and gets sharper with every deal.
- Ground it in real data
Your pricing sheet, contract, or offer letter goes in as a knowledge source.
- Set strict boundaries
No connectors. The AI agent drafts strategy and never sends anything for you.
What builders say
In their own words, posted publicly on LinkedIn after building an AI agent with Jacqueline. Each quote links to the original post.
“This was one of the highlights of the Summit for me. I appreciated how practical the session was, particularly seeing how AI agents can support prospecting, communication and the day-to-day work that keeps sales moving.”
“If you’re AI-curious but not sure where to start, I’d recommend keeping an eye on Jacqueline’s posts for future workshops. This was a great, approachable introduction, and I’d happily attend another session!”
“Thank you, Jacqueline, for giving us something we could actually build and put to work.”
“I enjoyed the first session with Ms. Jacqueline so much so, that I registered again.”
“Two sessions stood out to me: ‘Don’t Leave Money on the Table: Build Your Negotiation Prep Agent’ with Jacqueline V. Twillie, founder of BNEDai…”
“Incredible workshop! Learned so much!”
In Forbes
Six Forbes features since 2016, from salary negotiation to the AI skills gap. The newest is about the work she does now.

The $5.5 Trillion AI Skills Gap Is Being Filled By Peers, Not Corporate L&D
Read the feature- 202512 Must-Listen Leadership Podcasts For WomenBy Cynthia Pong · Winning Season podcast
- 2025From Mental Health To Class Solidarity: Workforce Trends To Watch In 2025By Aparna Rae · Workforce
- 2021How Many Negotiation Books Have Been Written By Women? The Answer May Surprise You.By Kwame Christian · Negotiation
- 2018Here Are Three Ways Black Women Can Negotiate Success In The BoardroomBy Tanya Tarr · Negotiation
- 20164 Strategies For Women Of Color To Negotiate A Higher SalaryBy Ruchika Tulshyan · Negotiation
On stage
Keynotes, workshops, and live AI agent builds for conferences, ERGs, and leadership teams.





About

Jacqueline V. Twillie, MBA is a leadership development strategist and three-time Amazon bestselling author.
Her book Don’t Leave Money on the Table is the source of the L.A.T.T.E. negotiation framework. For more than a decade she has developed leaders at Fortune 500 organizations, including Foot Locker, American Express, and Allstate. Today she teaches people to build AI agents live, and founded BNEDai to bring that work to teams. She is based in New York.
- Harvard Trained Negotiator, Program on Negotiation
- Certified Learning and Development Professional (CLDP)
- Host, Winning Season podcast
Three books

Don’t Leave Money on the Table
The source of the L.A.T.T.E. negotiation framework.

Dear Resilient Leader
A guide for underrepresented leaders, built on the R4 framework.

Navigating the Career Jungle
A guide for young professionals.
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Questions
Who is Jacqueline V. Twillie?
Jacqueline V. Twillie, MBA is a three-time bestselling author, leadership development strategist, and founder. For more than a decade she has developed leaders at Fortune 500 organizations including Foot Locker, American Express, and Allstate, and taught more than 400 people to build their first AI agent. She created the L.A.T.T.E. framework, the R4 leadership framework, and the AHA Method, hosts the Forbes-featured Winning Season podcast, and writes the Resilient Leader Insder newsletter. In September 2026, Forbes named her one of the peer leaders closing the $5.5 trillion AI skills gap.
What is the L.A.T.T.E. negotiation framework?
L.A.T.T.E. is Jacqueline V. Twillie’s five-step system for preparing for high-stakes workplace conversations, from her bestseller Don’t Leave Money on the Table. The steps are Look at the details, Anticipate the challenges, Think about your walk-away point, Talk it through, and Evaluate options. The premise is that preparation is most of the negotiation. Before you walk into the room, you set three numbers: your target, your acceptable outcome, and your walk-away point.
What does Jacqueline speak on?
AI agents and AI enablement. Her signature session is Build Your First AI Agent, a hands-on hour where the whole room builds a working AI agent with no code. She also speaks on closing the AI skills gap from the inside, on keeping a human in the loop, and on building AI agents with a team on its real work. Her Negotiation AI Agent Lab has every attendee build the same negotiation prep AI agent on her L.A.T.T.E. framework. She speaks to leadership teams, conferences, and cohorts. To book, use the Work with me page.
What size organization do you work with?
Mid-to-large organizations: Fortune 500 companies, global foundations, and established nonprofits. An AI agent enablement session starts with a team and one real workflow. For leadership development and philanthropy strategy, she looks for organizations that already have a giving or leadership function in place and want it to work better.
Do you work with nonprofits or only corporate?
Both. Corporate clients typically need AI agent enablement, leadership development programs, and partnership frameworks. Foundations and NGOs typically need donor strategy, partnership building, and leadership capacity, and their teams can build AI agents too. She builds every engagement to outlast a single grant cycle or a change in leadership.
What does an engagement look like: keynote, retainer, or project?
All three, depending on what the organization needs. A keynote is the lightest engagement. Jacqueline speaks to your leadership team or conference audience on AI agents and AI enablement, or runs the Negotiation AI Agent Lab as a talk where the whole room builds one. A project is scoped to a specific outcome: an AI agent enablement cohort through BNEDai, where a team builds a working AI agent on a workflow it already runs, a leadership development cohort, a partnership framework, or the design of a giving program. A retainer is for organizations that want ongoing advisory as they keep building. Most first engagements start as projects.
How long does a typical engagement run?
An AI agent enablement engagement starts with one live build session. Leadership programs run as multi-session cohorts, usually three to six months, with follow-on reinforcement. Philanthropy strategy projects run 90 days to six months depending on scope. Retainers are structured quarterly. Jacqueline builds every engagement so the organization can run the work on its own when she steps away.
What does the first 90 days look like?
It depends on the door. For AI agent enablement, the team builds a working AI agent in the first session, on a workflow it already runs. Getting it sharper on real work takes longer, and it improves as the team corrects it. For leadership development and philanthropy strategy, Jacqueline spends the first month learning where the organization stands today, including its leadership gaps, giving structure, and partnerships, and where it needs to be in five years. Then she builds the plan and the order of the first moves. Implementation follows in months two and three. By day 90, the organization has a clear plan and its first results.
How do we know if we’re ready to work with you?
You’re ready for an AI agent enablement session if your team has a repeated task it can describe in a sentence, especially if the licenses are already bought and adoption is shallow. You’re ready for leadership development or philanthropy strategy if your organization already has that function and it isn’t performing the way leadership expects, or you’re building one from scratch and want it structured well from the start. If you’re starting with no budget and no organizational buy-in yet, her free Agent Lab sessions, books, and newsletter are the right place to begin. Once you have organizational commitment, reach out to Jacqueline to talk through what you’re building.
What makes philanthropy strategy built to last?
Philanthropy lasts when the structure outlives the leader who launched it. Donor pipelines and partnership frameworks have to hold through budget cycles and leadership turnover. Jacqueline built the Decade Test to answer this question. It’s five free questions that show whether a giving strategy will hold over ten years.
Let’s work together
Book a talk
Five AI talks, from Build Your First AI Agent to the Negotiation AI Agent Lab, where the whole room builds an AI agent.
Bring the lab to your team
Through BNEDai, your team builds a working AI agent on a real workflow, live, and owns everything it builds.