About the Author
Anitha Jagadeesh
Enterprise AI and Data Leader
Twenty years governing data and AI inside Fortune 100 regulated environments — financial services, enterprise software, consumer operations. Human Value Governance™ is the framework that should have existed before the deployments she was asked to build.
Background
Enterprise experience across regulated industries
Anitha Jagadeesh has built and governed data and AI systems inside Fortune 100 regulated environments — financial services, enterprise software, and consumer operations — where the cost of a wrong decision is assigned to a named accountable person, and governance is not optional.
On the Framework
Why Human Value Governance™ exists
We have data governance. We have model governance.
We do not have a governance discipline for protecting human qualities
from being quietly optimized away by AI systems.
That gap has a name now.
Human Value Governance™ was built from direct experience inside organizations that deployed AI into consequential workflows — hiring, performance management, customer service — without asking what human value those systems were allowed to erase.
The framework is not theoretical. It names a governance failure already visible in production environments, defines the six human qualities that must be protected, and establishes seven covenants that translate principle into auditable institutional commitment.