From TA to AI Coach: How LeeAundra Keany Scaled Her UCLA Classes and Coaching Practice with nSpire AI

​LeeAundra Keany has spent 35 years closing that gap — for heads of state, Nobel laureates, senior U.S. officials and CEOs. Then she did something unusual for a coach of her caliber: she replaced TA-led feedback sessions in her UCLA classes with an AI coach, blind-reviewed every submission against its feedback, and kept the leverage.

​Join LeeAundra (Executive Communications Coach, UCLA Anderson · Founder, Keany Communications) in conversation with Sumanta Chakraborty (Founder & CEO, nSpire AI) for 30 minutes on what actually happened, plus 15 minutes of your questions.

​What we'll cover

• ​The anti-AI student: the UCLA story of a skeptic who ended up loving the tool

• ​Why the bottleneck isn't curriculum — it's personalized feedback at scale, and what changed when nSpire AI asked the follow-up questions while LeeAundra still reviewed everything

• ​What makes AI feedback actually good: context-aware notes, logical inconsistencies caught in real time, kudos-first delivery

• ​From classroom to career center: the capacity math that lets mock interview practice stop being capped by calendar slots

​Who it's for: higher-ed instructors, career services professionals and coaches.

​This is AI that doesn't replace the instructor. It replaces the waiting list to see the instructor.