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@TimLockie
Building Measurable Nonprofit AI Transformation At Scale
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Assessed 11/28/2025
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Tim Lockie helps nonprofits stop doomscrolling AI headlines and start unlocking their leaders, upskilling their staff, and upgrading their tech... without losing their soul, their staff, or their sanity.
30+ years working with nonprofits. 20+ years working in tech 15+ years an entrepreneur 5+ years culture centric digital transformation
In 2019 he developed Digital Guidance to drive adoption, a digital culture methodology that develops recognition based accountability and the psychological safety needed for change management and to incorporate digital systems into organizational culture.
In 2022 he founded The Human Stack as a nonprofit-focused, “your tech is fine, your culture needs a tune-up” shop that teaches teams how to drive their tools, use AI without freaking out, and finally become the kind of data-driven organization they keep bragging about in grant reports.
In 2024 he created online and live trainings and workshops for nonprofit practioners to stop being afraid of AI and start using tools they already pay for.
Today, The Human Stack works with funders, professional services, tech platforms, industry experts, and nonprofit leadership to develop long term measurable success by upgrading digital culture to handle the accelerated change AI is bringing to the nonprofit sector.
Generated 12/1/2025
Tim Lockie is a nonprofit AI transformation specialist with 2+ years of intensive experience building the methodology organizations actually need to adopt AI without losing their minds. He architects custom MCP integrations across 7+ platforms, designs multi-system automation pipelines, and has validated his organizational readiness framework with 850+ practitioners.
What sets Tim apart: he treats AI adoption as a culture problem, not a tech problem. His Digital Guidance methodology creates the psychological safety teams need to actually change—not just comply with another mandate from leadership.
The founder of The Human Stack, Tim is building infrastructure for an entire sector's AI transformation. His full profile reveals someone who's moved past the magic and into the mechanics.
The AI reality: The tech works. The culture doesn't. Watching thousands of nonprofits struggle to impement cloud systems made me rethink the approach we take when it comes to enablement first for cloud services, now for AI.
Here's the numbers: Of the ~3.5 in 2026 that will be spent on transformation only .5 Trillion (16%) succeed and 3 Trillion (84%) will fail. 2 (70%) TRILLION of that failure is because of Human Factors. 1 trillion for tech factors.
The tech stack works, it's The Human Stack that's stuck. We have a culture of tech chrisis.
We have an adoption problem that Governance can't fix. Governance uses compliance to prevent unwanted behaviors but it can't create psycological safety to promote behaviors it does want (adoption).
In 2019 The Human Stack developed Digital Guidance. Guidance is a method to engage the appropriate governance controls and enhancing organizational culture through psychological safety, recognition based accountability, and change that doesn't create disruption.
It's a Success As A Service model for professional services.