Alex Issakova

Alex Issakova is an AI adoption specialist and corporate trainer who helps leaders and their teams use artificial intelligence with confidence, clarity and ethical judgement. As founder of Huckr AI, she delivers practical training programmes for businesses navigating GenAI, and serves as Fractional Chief of Staff at The Portfolio Collective. With over fifteen years in AI-driven environments, including roles as Sales Chief of Staff and Head of Customer Success EMEA at Liftoff, she has delivered close to one hundred workshops making complex AI systems accessible to non-technical audiences. Her sessions equip organisations to adopt AI responsibly, build real decision-making capability, and balance innovation with accountability in a landscape often clouded by hype or fear.

After completing her Executive MBA at Warwick Business School, Alex Issakova turned her dissertation on ethical AI implementation into a professional calling. She founded Huckr AI, a GenAI training and enablement consultancy, and now works with business leaders and their teams to adopt artificial intelligence with confidence, clarity and ethical judgement. Her approach cuts through the noise of hype and fear, replacing it with practical understanding and real decision-making capability. With over fifteen years in AI-driven environments and close to one hundred workshops delivered, Alex has built her reputation on making complex systems accessible to non-technical audiences while never losing sight of the human stakes involved.

Her career spans Silicon Valley, European tech and fast-growth startups, giving her a rare operational perspective on how AI shapes business decisions. At Liftoff, an AI-powered mobile marketing platform that went from Series B to IPO, Alex served as Sales Chief of Staff, supporting the CRO of a 250-person division across US and EMEA markets through rapid commercial expansion. Before that, as Head of Customer Success EMEA, she scaled a team from five to twenty and led major go-to-market transitions during one of the most disruptive periods in tech history. Earlier roles at Fiksu included managing high-value strategic accounts and international secondments to Japan and Barcelona, where she worked on projects testing the commercial limits of early mobile AI technologies. Alex also completed the Ethics of AI programme at the London School of Economics and serves as Fractional Chief of Staff at The Portfolio Collective. She has built a global audience of more than 32,000 followers on LinkedIn, where she is known for making complex ideas clear and naming uncomfortable truths many prefer to ignore.

As a speaker, Alex addresses AI sovereignty, ethical and responsible AI, algorithmic power and the hidden risks shaping the future of work. She combines industry credibility with a critical, human-centred lens that resonates equally with technical and non-technical audiences. Her sessions equip organisations to adopt AI responsibly, build genuine capability and balance innovation with accountability in a landscape often clouded by exaggeration or anxiety. Beyond AI, Alex also speaks about personal visibility, influence and designing meaningful careers in a changing world. Drawing on her own journey from corporate burnout to portfolio entrepreneurship, she helps audiences engage with technology thoughtfully while retaining autonomy, purpose and agency in their work and lives.