Advisory
I work with senior leaders and teams on AI disruption, leadership models and capability, particularly where changes in the business require people to work and lead differently.
I led through the AI disruption of a large digital business as a managing director, while accountable for its results, so this starts from having made the calls myself. That experience is particularly relevant to the AI work I do including how the work changes, what leaders need to do differently and what organisations should be developing their people towards.
Most companies have already documented what good leadership looks like. What matters is whether development changes what people actually do, especially when the context around them is changing quickly.
Areas of focus
What changes in the work
Where AI changes the economics of the business, and where it produces an impressive demonstration and little else.
How AI changes what a leader's day contains, and what they need to be able to do differently as a result.
What changes in how people learn and lead
How juniors acquire judgement when the work they used to learn it on is automated, and what to protect in the training model before it goes.
How to design development that changes what people do, when they already know the content and are not applying it.
What organisations have to decide
How leadership models need to evolve as the work, economics and expectations around them change.
What coaching and development capability to build inside and what to buy.
Recent work
Integrating AI into the daily work of a global consumer goods business, and in particular what it changed about how its senior people spent their time and what they had to learn to do differently.
A working session with the partner group of a global advisory firm on the beliefs that shape how they sell, and on what stops them qualifying opportunities in the way they have already agreed opportunities should be qualified.
The design of a six-month programme building commercial capability in a consulting firm's partners, running skill building and mindset sessions in parallel and testing both against live client work.
How it works
Sometimes a diagnosis and a written design, sometimes a working session with a leadership team or a partner group, and sometimes both. The subject is agreed beforehand and I prepare against your organisation and your situation.
I focus on advisory and design. Where an organisation needs implementation or a longer programme, I will say so at the outset and point you towards people who do that well.
Advisory is priced by the day, and design work is quoted against scope.