Shivaune Field

Brainstormer, Business adviser, Consultant, Journalist, Producer, Student, Technologist, World traveler, Writer/Editor

Shivaune Field is an AI-focused researcher and writer based in Los Angeles. She is a contributor to the Leadership section of Forbes, holds an MBA, and is a PhD student researching the intersection of AI, company culture and the leadership skills needed in an AI future. Field earned a qualification from M.I.T. in The Business Implications of Artificial Intelligence in 2018 and studied the Philosophical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford in 2019. She also holds a certificate in Global Business Enterprise from the University of Oxford. Field spoke on technology and its impact on society at Harvard Law School in 2018. She is an adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship in the MBA program at Pepperdine University’s Graduate Business School. The profiles Field has written for Forbes include Arianna Huffington, Tory Burch, Karlie Kloss, Ann Curry, Barbara Corcoran and Margaret Atwood among others. Prior to writing for Forbes, Field was a digital journalist with Bloomberg where she interviewed thought leaders, C-suite executives and company founders including Elon Musk, Tony Hsieh, Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger, Ford CEO Mark Fields, George Lucas, Jay Leno, LeBron James and Jessica Alba among many others. She produced live and taped TV interviews with notable leaders including Disney CEO Bob Iger, Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, media personality Ryan Seacrest and musician Will.I.Am.field-produced a primetime Bloomberg special called 'Women to Watch' in 2012, featuring YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and VP Carolyn Everson, Cisco's CTO Padmasree Warrior and many other high achieving women in the tech sector. Field Co-Chaired the UN Women USNC LA Media Summit in support of HeForShe in 2016, an event held at Google’s YouTube Space and attended by more than 300 people. The Summit honored Patricia Arquette and Joss Whedon for their work in gender equality in the media. Field founded a chapter of TedX in Malibu, California highlighting women speakers with compelling stories to tell. She volunteers as a wish granter with the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles and as a Champion of the Pepperdine University Microenterprise program mentoring underprivileged entrepreneurs-in-training. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Field now resides in the Silicon Beach area of LA. She travels frequently to the Bay area, east coast of the U.S., and abroad, to stay abreast of developments in the stimulating and transformative arena of AI.

AI, Technology, Organizational Behavior, Sustainability, Innovation, Media, Behavioral Economics, Learning