Jacqui Heron Finn
Bravance Co-Founder
Jacqui has spent her career at the intersection of how people learn, how technology shapes that learning, and what gets lost when we forget the human in the middle.
Contact Jacqui
The best AI users aren't the most tech-savvy.
They're the most self-aware.
Jacqui offers one-on-one coaching, workshops and keynotes for schools, districts, and organizations. Along with in person engagements, Jacqui will launch Bravance's first online technology-based course: Notice First: Self-Awareness Meets AI Performance on May 4th. Notice First is based on Katy Boucher's Bridge To Connection course and curriculum framework, also available through Bravance Learning.
Every engagement starts with the same question: who are you as a learner and what do you already bring to the technology?
AI Coaching & Professional Development
Whether you are just beginning your AI journey or you want to level-up your AI skills, Jacqui offers both one-on-one and group AI learning sessions. For individuals, schools, or any organization seeking a nuanced, heart centered approach to AI learning.
Online Generative AI Course
Common generative AI tools amplify and mirror the human driving them. Learn how to harness your own self-awareness to get the most from this technology. For school, work, or personal use, AI can be your go-to thought partner when it knows what you need!
Keynotes, Conferences & Speaking
The best AI users aren't the most tech-savvy; they're the most self-aware. Jacqui brings that message to every audience, backed by more than 25 years of teaching and leading. Her research-grounded framework will transform how educators think about AI.
About Jacqui
Heart-Centered, Human First
Jacqui Heron Finn is an AI literacy educator, educational technology leader and co-founder of Bravance Learning. Bravance is guided by the mission of creating a heart-centered professional learning community for:
- K-12 educators, specialists, counselors, paraprofessionals and administrators
- Higher education faculty and leadership
- Mental and behavioral health professionals
- Parents and caregivers dedicated to the social-emotional well-being of young people
Self-Awareness is the Key
Jacqui’s experience teaching and leading at the crossroads of human development, technology, and the deeply personal ways students learn, grounds her approach to AI literacy. She brings the same lens to adult learners: before anyone can use AI effectively, they need to understand their own thinking and feeling patterns first. This means knowing their cognitive strengths, executive functioning patterns, and metacognitive habits. To this end, Jacqui created the online course Notice First: Self-Awareness Meets AI Performance.
SEL Meets AI
Prior to launching Bravance, Jacqui taught social studies at The Accord School, a private middle school in Norwell, Massachusetts. Here, she deepened her practice in social-emotional learning under the mentorship of Founding Director Katy Boucher. Combining their expertise in social-emotional learning and online pedagogy, Katy and Jacqui formed Bravance Learning. While converting Katy's Bridge to Connection curriculum into an online course, Jacqui had a "light bulb" moment: if Katy's SEL strategies of noticing and observing could be applied to AI tools, learners could improve the quality of their output while developing a more foundational understanding of how AI works.
Anchored In Multiple Perspectives
Jacqui continues in her role at Accord as the Technology Coordinator, managing the full infrastructure stack that keeps an independent school running. This includes Google Workspace administration and account lifecycle management, content filtering and policy configuration, network oversight, and hardware procurement and maintenance. Prior to joining Accord, Jacqui served in administrative, professional development and classroom teaching roles for more than 25 years. She holds a B.S. in Secondary Education from Penn State and a Master's in Educational Technology Leadership from George Washington University.
