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source_timestamps: ["§ They Measure Real-World Performance", "¶16", "¶19"]
tags: ["author", "coauthor", "speaker", "workforce-transformation"]
related: ["framework-building-ai-with-workers", "quote-measure-what-workers-do", "quote-adoption-is-continuous", "entity-inge-oosterhuis", "entity-jeff-wheless", "entity-rushda-afzal"]
speakers: ["Tracey Countryman"]
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/05/the-best-manufacturers-build-ai-with-workers-not-for-them"
sourceTitle: "The Best Manufacturers Build AI with Workers, Not for Them"
sources: ["adoption"]
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---
## Segment 9 — adoption

## Article 78 — a078

# Tracey Countryman

**Tracey Countryman** is one of the four coauthors of the source article and a primary voice advancing the "build AI with workers" implementation model.

**Role in this source.** As a coauthor, Countryman is jointly responsible for the [[framework-building-ai-with-workers]] and its three pillars, and co-attributed on the article's two headline directives: [[quote-measure-what-workers-do]] and [[quote-adoption-is-continuous]]. Co-authors: [[entity-inge-oosterhuis]], [[entity-jeff-wheless]], [[entity-rushda-afzal]].

**Contributions in this vault:** [[framework-building-ai-with-workers]], [[quote-measure-what-workers-do]], [[quote-adoption-is-continuous]], and — via joint authorship — the full concept set ([[concept-dynamic-skill-and-task-mapping]], [[concept-learning-in-the-flow-of-work]], [[concept-co-learning]], [[concept-software-defined-factory-roles]]).

> Enrichment could not independently resolve a separate canonical bio URL; likely affiliation is the article's author page or [[entity-accenture-d9]] (see that note for the affiliation inference).

**Canonical name:** Tracey Countryman · **Role:** Coauthor.