About | Numenor Strategy

The Team

Strategy meets execution.

Kendra Gladych

Chief Operating Officer

Kendra builds systems that work in the real world, not just on paper.

For nearly a decade, she worked at the Stanford Graduate School of Business on a team that helped over 1,000 companies in emerging markets scale. She led global marketing campaigns, built systems that increased productivity and allowed capital to be reallocated, produced an Emmy Award-winning short film on female entrepreneurship, and launched the award-winning Grit & Growth podcast.

At Stanford, she brought paid advertising in-house — saving hundreds of thousands of dollars — and built a custom AI system using the organization's brand voice to democratize marketing across the team. That project became the seed for what Numenor teaches today.

Before Stanford, she managed public relations at the Council on Foreign Relations, running campaigns for foreign policy experts and coordinating events with Fortune 500 executives, government officials, and heads of state.

Education: MBA, University of Illinois. BS in Journalism and Political Communication, Emerson College. Executive training at Stanford and Georgetown.

Trevor Gladych

Chief Executive Officer

Trevor helps people solve problems they can't solve alone.

He's a practicing attorney who has worked with a complex business litigation firm off and on since he was a teenager. At Georgetown Law, he taught in 17 D.C. public high schools and trained law school deans and professors around the world on how to teach. Before law school, he and his team raised $5 million as undergraduates to launch a documentary film program.

He spent six years as a high school English teacher. He's coached water polo and swimming at every level from age-group to collegiate. He finished an Ironman and bicycled across the United States.

Trevor currently serves as president of Navigate, the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce's young professional group, and was named Young Professional of the Year in 2025. He brings that same energy to AI education — teaching the why before the how, shifting how people think about what's possible.

Education: JD, Georgetown University Law Center.

The Dynamic

Trevor dreams big. Kendra brings it to life.

Strategy meets execution. Vision meets operations. The person who sees the whole board and the person who moves the pieces.

We built Numenor because we believe AI is the most significant shift in how work gets done since the internet — and most people are using it wrong. They ask a stranger for help and wonder why they get garbage back.

We teach a different approach. Build AI systems that know your business. Feed them great data. Maintain them like you'd maintain any valuable team member. The result isn't magic — it's compounding intelligence that gets better the longer you use it.

Garbage data, trash results. Great data, great results.

The Name

Why Númenor

In Tolkien's legendarium, Númenor was the greatest civilization of Men — a bridge between the wisdom of the immortal Elves and the practical world of humankind. Its people were scholars, builders, and stewards. Their strength came not from power alone, but from discipline, systems, and a long view of history.

Númenor's story is also a cautionary one. When capability outpaced ethical grounding, the civilization fell.

We chose this name because we're at a similar inflection point. AI is a frontier of human capability, and how we approach it matters. We're committed to helping leaders build enduring intelligence — not just adopt tools that produce slop.

Bridge Between Worlds

We translate complex AI capability into practical systems. The gap between what AI can do and what most people actually do with it is enormous. We close that gap.

Stewardship Over Exploitation

AI literacy is a leadership responsibility. We help clients build sustainable advantage without eroding trust, cutting corners, or producing work they wouldn't put their name on.

Long View, Not Short Cycles

We focus on durable capability: education, systems, discipline. Foundations over flash. The businesses that win won't be the ones who adopted AI first — they'll be the ones who built systems that compound.

Human First. AI Empowered.