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OpenAI & Slalom​

A game-changing partnership for the future of work.​

Together with OpenAI, we are helping businesses learn how to working an AI-native way. Organizations using AI agents are achieving new levels of productivity, creating new experiences, and disrupting their industries.​

​OpenAI’s cutting-edge capabilities and Slalom’s expertise bring more to our customers so they can move fast, scale AI responsibly, and achieve things they never could before.​

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Our goal is to bring immediate impact and measurable value to our customers. Together with OpenAI, we're doing just that.

Our openai expertise

  • Enable organization-wide AI literacy and adoption
  • Create custom GPTs that solve real business problems
  • Build production applications using the openAI API
  • Platform, including Apps and agents SDK
  • Provide clear metrics to demonstrate success
  • Conduct executive alignment workshops
  • Train users with AI 101, 201, and 301 courses
  • Establish ROI tracking and impact reporting
400+
AI coaches
800+​
AI-powered engineers​
140+
OpenAI certified practitioners
What began as a technology deployment quickly evolved into a strategic capability that is now embedded across our business and has fundamentally changed the way our teams work. By personalizing ChatGPT Enterprise to fit our unique environment, we empowered our teams to work more efficiently, make faster decisions, and unlock new levels of productivity. Partnering with Slalom and OpenAI has been truly transformational for our organization.

Global Head of AI at a global biopharma​

Our featured solutions

SOLUTION

ChatGPT Enterprise rollout​

Build organization-wide AI literacy and confidence to expand its impact and reach and develop a continuous innovation pipeline for AI.

SOLUTION

OpenAI API Platform build​

Build an AI-powered product experience from the ground up with clear roadmap, delivery plan, and success criteria. 

OnGoing Support

Coaching and co-creation

For customers ready to scale, Slalom offers longer-term support and co-creation across a wide range of capabilities from ongoing hands-on coaching, to advanced custom GPTs and prompt libraries for specialized roles or workflows.

OpenAI and Slalom news & events​

news

OpenAI and Slalom partnership​: The collaboration will bring OpenAI’s AI models and products together with Slalom’s delivery expertise to help customers deploy AI solutions across their organizations.

OpenAI for Government collaboration​: Together with OpenAI, Slalom experts will help federal agencies bring AI into their everyday work in a smart and responsible way.

events

J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference​

January 12-15, 2026​
San Francisco​

Discover the future of healthcare and life sciences.

The New Way Forward: The Agentic Coworker​

March 11, 2026
San Francisco​

Join us to explore how AI agents are reshaping teams, workflows, and the way meaningful work gets done.

Check back soon for more events!

Meet our OpenAI leaders

Will Thieme

Jessica Ferrell

Director, OpenAI Business Lead

Jessica works with executive teams to turn the potential of OpenAI into practical, enterprise-wide advantages. She helps leaders translate emerging AI capabilities into scalable solutions that drive measurable business outcomes while strengthening governance and trust with teams. With a background in executive AI coaching change management and organizational transformation, she designs adoption strategies that enable responsible AI at scale.

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Jeff Rummel​

Sr. Director, Global Partner Development, Data & AI

Jeff is a global alliances leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling strategic partnerships. He is responsible for accelerating Slalom’s OpenAI partnership globally by aligning strategy, go-to-market execution, and industry solutions. He focuses on helping enterprises prioritize the right use cases, embed AI into real workflows, and responsibly scale adoption.

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Etienne Ohl

Senior Director, West AI

Etienne leads West AI at Slalom, pioneering enterprise-scale AI for over 16 years. With a background in computer perception, he has led 50+ engagements across machine learning, generative AI, enterprise AI, AIOps, digital products, and modern data architectures, he helps organizations translate advanced intelligence into measurable business outcomes.

Will Thieme

Will Thieme

OpenAI Partner Solution Lead

Will partners with clients to define AI strategies, design operating models, and deliver solutions powered by OpenAI technologies. Drawing on experience in executive coaching, training at scale, and technical implementation, he helps organizations responsibly adopt generative AI to unlock measurable business value. He also stays current on emerging research in model mechanics.

Will Thieme

Emmett Tischmak

Partner Solutions Lead, OpenAI

Emmett helps organizations define clear AI strategies and translate them into practical plans grounded in measurable metrics that drive adoption and achieve business outcomes. He leverages experience leading enterprise technology implementation and adoption efforts across organizations ranging from several thousand employees to workforces of more than 100,000, spanning industries and functions. He combines AI expertise with a background in change management, transformation, operational planning, and organizational leadership to help clients move from AI ambition to outcomes at scale.

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