# Meg Smith > Meg Smith is a digital strategist, author, and AI educator based in Northland, New Zealand. Co-founder of Cloverbase, co-author of Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption (Microsoft Press), and creator of the 90 Day Mentoring Challenge. Meg helps individuals and organisations embrace AI with purpose, focusing on the practical skills that turn AI from a tool into a daily working advantage. ## Key pages - [Home](https://megsmith.nz/): Intro to Meg's work and latest projects - [About](https://megsmith.nz/about): Meg's journey from Google to Cloverbase - [Portfolio](https://megsmith.nz/portfolio): Speaking engagements and podcast appearances - [Blog](https://megsmith.nz/blog): 30 essays on AI skills, learning, and future-ready careers - [Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption Book](https://megsmith.nz/microsoft-m365-copilot-adoption-book): The Microsoft Press book co-authored with Mark Smith - [Connect](https://megsmith.nz/connect): Book Meg for a speaking engagement or workshop ## Blog categories - [Portfolio](https://megsmith.nz/category/portfolio): 18 articles - [AI Skills](https://megsmith.nz/category/ai-skills): 12 articles ## Recent posts - [What skills can we develop to be ready for the future?](https://megsmith.nz/blog/future-ready-skills) (2025-10-28, AI Skills): I was on maternity leave when I saw ChatGPT at work for the first time. My overstimulated, under rested mind immediately jumped forward 6 months and I wondered whether I'd have a job to go back to. - [AI Advantage #9: Digital Labour](https://megsmith.nz/blog/ai-advantage-9) (2025-10-27, Portfolio): Collaboration and delegation at work will look different in the future where teams are made up of both humans and AI agents. - [The Value of Just-in-Time Learning](https://megsmith.nz/blog/the-value-of-just-in-time-learning) (2025-10-21, AI Skills): When we first bought our remote property back in 2017, we aspired to off grid living. Initially we ruled it out due to cost and complexity. It moved to the "someday" list. As we've been watching the demand for energy increase this year, and the costs rise too, we decided to look at solar a - [AI Advantage #8: Personal AI Automation](https://megsmith.nz/blog/ai-advantage-8) (2025-10-20, Portfolio): How can we us AI to save us time in our personal lives? - [Unlocking your learning motivation](https://megsmith.nz/blog/unlocking-your-learning-motivation) (2025-10-14, AI Skills): What motivates you to learn? We've been exploring the mindsets and methods that shape our learning experience, but this week let's get a bigger picture perspective on learning. Understanding what motivates you to learn is going to be increasingly important; connecting learning with purpose is one w - [AI Advantage #7: Creativity](https://megsmith.nz/blog/ai-advantage-7) (2025-10-13, Portfolio): People who say AI is making us dumber lack creativity. I prefer Neil de Grasse Tyson’s take. - [Discover your unique Learning Style](https://megsmith.nz/blog/discover-your-unique-learning-style) (2025-10-07, AI Skills): When I was four years old my mum went to teachers' college. She had worked many different jobs before having kids. Her natural inclination to teach led her to the classroom and gave me the gift of learning from her example. One of the things she'd often say in the context of her work was that she d - [AI Advantage #6: Storytelling](https://megsmith.nz/blog/ai-advantage-6) (2025-10-06, Portfolio): When everyone has access to the world’s information, stories become more important than ever to help us make sense of it. - [How do you become a learn-it-all?](https://megsmith.nz/blog/how-do-you-become-a-learn-it-all) (2025-09-30, AI Skills): The future belongs to the learn-it-alls. While a know-it-all is obsessed with telling everyone how much they know, a learn-it-all is motivated by curiosity. - [AI Advantage #5: Critical Thinking](https://megsmith.nz/blog/ai-advantage-5) (2025-09-29, Portfolio): In this episode, we highlight the importance of employing critical thinking when consuming news and social media content, and also when using AI. - [Chase your own version of success and sustain your energy](https://megsmith.nz/blog/chase-your-own-version-of-success) (2025-09-23, AI Skills): Chasing success on your own terms is infinitely more satisfying than working towards someone else's goals. Work out who you want to be, what you value, and how you want to design your life. - [AI Advantage #4: AI Augmentation](https://megsmith.nz/blog/ai-advantage-4) (2025-09-22, Portfolio): In this episode, we talk about how to use AI to deepen and extend your knowledge and experiences. - [Envision Your Version of Success](https://megsmith.nz/blog/envision-your-version-of-success) (2025-09-16, AI Skills): If you can connect the dots between who you are, what you believe, and what you do, you will experience your life as meaningful. - [AI Advantage #3: Conversations](https://megsmith.nz/blog/ai-advantage-3) (2025-09-15, Portfolio): In this episode, we reframe AI as a conversation you practice on purpose. - [Are you climbing a ladder that's leaning against the wrong wall?](https://megsmith.nz/blog/are-you-climbing-a-ladder-thats-leaning-against-the-wrong-wall) (2025-09-09, AI Skills): Open LinkedIn and you'll read about the success of others; open Instagram and you're bombarded with suggestions about the things you need to own and the places you must go to be as good as everyone else. - [AI Advantage #2: Digital Fluency skills](https://megsmith.nz/blog/ai-advantage-2) (2025-09-08, Portfolio): In this episode, we unpack why “skills over knowledge” matters, how to build a learn-it-all mindset, and what one level deeper looks like in daily work. - [Who Do You Want to Be?](https://megsmith.nz/blog/who-do-you-want-to-be) (2025-09-02, AI Skills): We all want to be successful, but have you ever taken the time to think about what success means to you? - [AI Advantage #1: Practical Ways to Augment Your Work with AI](https://megsmith.nz/blog/ai-advantage-1) (2025-09-01, Portfolio): Because the world needs another AI podcast. - [Just getting started with AI? Try this Prompt](https://megsmith.nz/blog/getting-started-with-ai) (2025-06-04, AI Skills): Just getting started with AI? Try this prompt - [Speaking at Dynamics Minds 2025](https://megsmith.nz/blog/dynamics-minds-2025) (2025-05-28, Portfolio): At Dynamics Minds in Slovenia I presented The AI-Enabled Advantage - Three Practical Skills to Elevate your Career ## Agents - [Posts index (JSON)](https://megsmith.nz/api/agent/posts): Machine-readable index of published posts, refreshed hourly - WebMCP (Chrome origin trial): read-only page tools get_site_info, list_posts, and search_posts; the newsletter form is a declarative tool that requires a human click to submit ## Author Meg Smith — Digital Strategist & AI Educator. Co-founder of Cloverbase. Speaker, board member, and co-author of Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption. ## Location Whangārei Heads, Northland, New Zealand.