AI Media Strategist · Speaker · Educator

The tool generates. The human gives meaning.

I help leadership teams, studios, and creative organizations direct AI instead of being directed by it. Keynotes, hands-on labs, and embedded consulting, built from real production work inside one of Coca-Cola’s content studios and two decades of teaching at Georgia State’s Creative Media Industries Institute.

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Based in Atlanta · Booked worldwide · Now booking fall 2026
TED Vancouver SXSW Coca-Cola · StudioNow Directors Guild of America, Atlanta Georgia State CMII MENA ICT Forum
“Astonishing. Like it or not, AI is here, and it is something every filmmaker needs to understand.”
Tom Luse · Executive Producer, The Walking Dead · on the Generative Storytelling Lab

Three ways to work with me.

Keynotes / Labs / Consulting
01

Keynotes & Talks

For conferences, leadership summits, and company events. Provocations, not tool demos. Signature talks include:

  • The Script Is a Prompt for Humans. What authorship means when generation is nearly free.
  • Directed Compute. How creative leaders turn raw model capability into work that matters.
  • Inverting the Loop. Stop putting humans in the AI loop. Put AI in the human loop.

Every talk is rebuilt for your audience. I travel.

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02

Workshops & Labs

The Generative Storytelling Lab: your team writes, directs, and screens a film in one day.

  • Private editions for leadership teams, agencies, and studios. I bring the lab to you, anywhere.
  • Public editions at Georgia State’s CMII in Atlanta. Production no. 7 runs this July.
  • Not a tool tour. Story, workflow, and judgment, ending in a screening your team will still be talking about next quarter.
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03

Consulting

Embedded AI strategy for media and creative organizations.

I have spent the past six months inside StudioNow, a production partner of Coca-Cola, building script generation and evaluation systems that working producers actually use.

That is the kind of engagement I take: embedded, hands-on, and measured by whether the work ships, not by the deck it came in.

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What a room can make in a day.

Proof, not promises

Two minutes of films made by my students and lab cohorts, most by people who had never made a film before, none of whom will look at creative work the same way again.

Six cohorts. Every one screened finished work.

The AI Creative Resources Library
The living toolbox I maintain for students, lab alumni, and consulting clients. Updated constantly, because the field is.
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About.

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Elizabeth Strickler

Elizabeth Strickler directs Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Georgia State University’s Creative Media Industries Institute and consults as an AI media strategist through Elizaday LLC, most recently embedded with StudioNow, a production partner of Coca-Cola, building generative systems for working producers.

She has spoken at TED Vancouver, SXSW, and the MENA ICT Forum, produced the Directors Guild of America Atlanta AI Seminar, and founded the Immersive Impact Review, a peer-reviewed journal of immersive media.

Her background is the full stack of this moment: she built internet infrastructure as a programmer in the dotcom era, holds degrees in philosophy, computer science, and film, and has spent twenty years teaching creative people to understand systems, not just tools.

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Tell me the date, the audience, and what you want them to leave believing. I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.

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