In this episode of Meeting of the Minds - The Legal AI Podcast, hosts Hal Marcus and Memme Onwudiwe sit down with Donovan Bell, Senior Director and Head of Global Operations for Corporate Affairs, Policy, Integrity, Trade, and Legal at Intel, to discuss how Intel’s legal operations team is navigating organizational change and AI adoption simultaneously.

What You'll Learn:

• Why agentic AI requires a decision architecture before deployment
• How to foster healthy skepticism in AI adoption
• The four essential qualities to hire for in legal ops talent
• How to balance aggressive AI adoption with human psychology
• Why orchestration drives meaningful transformation
• How to apply agile frameworks to legal ops innovation
• Why contract lifecycle management becomes your competitive intelligence engine

About the Guest:

Donovan Bell is Senior Director and Head of Global Operations for Corporate Affairs, Policy, Integrity, Trade, and Legal at Intel, bringing over 15 years of experience in technology-driven organizational transformation. With a background spanning Microsoft, Walmart, and other Fortune 500 companies, Donovan specializes in orchestrating intelligence across legal operations, AI adoption, and people-centric change management. He also serves on the Board of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) and co-chairs the Inclusion and Social Impact Council, while also teaching as an adjunct professor and program director in project management.

• Donovan Bell on LinkedIn
• Intel Website
• Hal Marcus on LinkedIn: Hal Marcus
• Memme Onwudiwe on LinkedIn: Memme Onwudiwe

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