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## Segment 6 — agentic

## Article 27 — a027

# Maura McCarthy

**Profile.** COO of [[entity-ita-group|ITA Group]].

**Role in the source.** A cited practitioner. She worked closely with CIO [[entity-jason-katcher|Jason Katcher]] to create leadership alignment, shifting the operating model to give developers, managers, and knowledge workers the tools to shape AI agents acting on their behalf — a concrete instance of [[concept-digital-labor-governance]].

**Attributed contributions in this vault.** The lessons-learned quote [[quote-pairing-expertise-with-ai]] ("The most valuable lesson we've learned is the importance of pairing our expertise with AI") and the ITA Group governance case supporting [[claim-codified-judgment-compounds]].