Best of Best Review proudly announces Jackie Cook as the Best AI Transformation Leader in the United States of 2026, recognizing a leadership approach that brings together AI adoption, business transformation, leadership, and the human realities of navigating change.

Through Momentum Group, Cook works with leaders, founders, and organizations facing pivotal moments across AI, careers, change, and leadership. Her work is grounded in more than 20 years of experience inside organizations, where she worked across operations, product, strategy, transformation, customer experience, and leadership.

A Different Way to Think About Transformation

For Cook, transformation is not simply about introducing new technology or adopting another business framework. It is about helping people understand what has changed, determine what matters now, and make thoughtful decisions about what comes next.

That perspective is particularly relevant as organizations consider how artificial intelligence will affect leadership, teams, business models, and the way work gets done. Cook believes AI can expand what leaders and businesses are capable of, while emphasizing that technology alone cannot replace sound judgment.

As she puts it, “AI can give us more capability, but capability without judgment just helps us move faster in the wrong direction.”

That principle reflects the broader philosophy behind her work. AI transformation is ultimately a leadership challenge as much as a technology challenge.

Experience From Inside the Work

One of the strongest elements of Cook's perspective is her firsthand experience. Before founding Momentum Group, she spent more than two decades working within organizations and leading across multiple functions.

That experience informs how she approaches transformation today. Rather than focusing solely on strategies that look compelling on paper, she considers what happens when those strategies reach the people responsible for executing them.

Her experience spans operations, product, strategy, customer experience, organizational change, and transformation. This gives her a practical perspective on the gap that can exist between an ambitious transformation plan and the realities of implementing change.

Cook is also navigating transformation from the perspective of a founder. She is actively exploring how AI can create leverage for leaders and small businesses while maintaining the human judgment required to use that capability effectively.

Leadership When the Old Playbook No Longer Fits

Cook's interest in transformation is also deeply personal.

After more than 20 years building her career inside organizations, her executive role was eliminated. Rather than presenting that experience as a straightforward entrepreneurial leap, Cook describes it as an uncertain period that forced her to reconsider the question she was asking.

Initially, she wondered how she could get back to where she had been. Over time, the question changed to something more constructive: What do I want to build from here?

That shift became part of the foundation for Momentum Group and for Cook's broader philosophy of navigating what comes next.

Her experience demonstrates an important leadership lesson. Resilience does not always mean returning to a previous version of success. Sometimes it means developing the clarity to build something different.

Advancing Women in Leadership and Business

Cook's positioning also connects naturally with the broader conversation around women in leadership and women in business. Her work recognizes that leadership transitions can require more than technical capability. They can require confidence, experimentation, judgment, and a willingness to reconsider assumptions about what a successful career or business should look like.

Through her work with leaders and founders, Cook focuses on the practical decisions that arise when circumstances change. That includes stepping into greater responsibility, navigating organizational transformation, building a business, and understanding how emerging technologies such as AI can change the possibilities available to leaders.

The emphasis is not on presenting a perfect formula. It is on helping people develop enough clarity to move forward.

Momentum Through Movement

A central idea in Cook's work is simple: “Your momentum happens in movement.”

The philosophy challenges the assumption that people must have complete certainty before taking action. In Cook's view, movement can create information. A meaningful next step can reveal opportunities, clarify priorities, and build confidence that was impossible to achieve through planning alone.

That idea applies equally to career transitions, entrepreneurship, organizational change, and AI adoption.

For organizations exploring AI transformation, the implication is especially important. Waiting for perfect certainty may prevent useful experimentation, while moving without judgment can create unnecessary risk. The opportunity lies between those extremes: understand what has changed, identify where AI can genuinely create value, and take deliberate steps forward.

What Sets Jackie Cook Apart

Best of Best Review recognizes Cook for the combination of practical organizational experience, leadership perspective, entrepreneurial experience, and interest in AI transformation that shapes her work.

Her approach emphasizes several qualities that matter in modern transformation leadership: practical execution, human centered change, strategic judgment, adaptability, experimentation, leadership development, business transformation, responsible AI adoption, and clarity during uncertainty.

Rather than presenting transformation as a destination, Cook treats it as an ongoing process of learning and decision making.

Her message is equally relevant to an executive considering a career transition, a founder building a company, a leader guiding a team through change, or an organization evaluating what AI means for its future.

The Best AI Transformation Leader in the United States of 2026

Best of Best Review recognizes Jackie Cook as the Best AI Transformation Leader in the United States of 2026 for a perspective that connects technology with leadership and transformation with the human experience of change.

Through Momentum Group, Cook is building around a clear question: What do you do when the old playbook no longer fits what comes next?

Her answer is not to promise certainty. It is to create enough clarity to take the next meaningful step.

As Cook says, “The playbook that got you here may not be the playbook that gets you where you want to go next.”

That philosophy sits at the heart of her work across AI transformation, leadership, business transformation, entrepreneurship, and the evolving role of women in leadership and business.

Momentum Group

Momentum Group can be found at momentum-grp.com. Cook is also active on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, where she shares perspectives on leadership, career navigation, entrepreneurship, transformation, and the human side of AI.