01Book a talk
Speaking at your event, conference, panel or podcast. Built around your audience, not a deck I reuse. Rooted in what I’ve actually built myself.
Limited availability — speaking & advisory
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Problems I solve
Do these sound familiar?
We’re not sure how to get real value from AI, and we’re worried we’re falling behind everyone else. Right now we mostly use it to rewrite emails. Surely there’s more to it.
We know change is coming, but we don’t know which skills our people will need to thrive. What we’ve tried so far hasn’t landed. We need a new approach.
We never seem to have the information we need to make a good decision. We pull manually from systems that don’t agree.
We’re doing the same task by hand every week and it feels like a chore. We’re probably not the only team doing it either.
We’re facing something genuinely new and we haven’t the foggiest where to start. We don’t know the right language to use or the right people to ask.
We built our policies for a world that’s since moved on without us. They made complete sense at the time. Now we’re not sure which bits still hold.
02Consulting and advisory
Strategic input on AI, data, skills, process, automation, market shifts and the future of work. Backed by a decade advising global decision makers inside one of the world’s largest companies.
03Training and hackathons
Sessions that build genuine AI and data confidence, not just tool usage. My own curriculum, honed on thousands already, built for any level and any industry.
04Mentoring and coaching
Sessions to get ready for what’s coming. Career change, rebuilding confidence, new skills, or working out where the world is heading and how to be better placed for it.
05Collaboration
Got an idea or project you want to team up on? Let’s talk. Two sets of strengths, one thing neither of us would build alone.
06Coffee chat
Anything and everything else. Let’s connect. No agenda. Tell me what you’re wrestling with and I’ll do the same.
Free help — I reserve some time and resources for charities, career starters and anyone who’s been out of work a while. If that’s you, just ask.
Themes
Skills
01AI Confidence Curriculum
Built and delivered an AI confidence curriculum and community for thousands, from apprentices to executives. Shared with businesses, schools, colleges, universities and charities.
02Hiring Barriers Removed
Led research across 500,000 employees, proving degree requirements were poor predictors of job performance. Findings opened roles to people without degrees.
03Levy Spend, Fully Tracked
Built a model and platform tracking apprenticeship levy spend across thousands of apprentices and companies, revealing regional imbalances and unlocking spend for in-demand skills.
04School Need Mapping
Joined internal and open government data into a live map of need across 27,000 UK schools, directing donations and social value projects to where they would genuinely help most.
05Social Value, Measured in Minutes
Designed a low-friction platform capturing volunteering and community contributions across a business, with transparent calculations behind every figure. Cut reporting from months to minutes, at 1% of vendor cost.
06GenAI Hiring Disruption Paper
Authored a paper soon after ChatGPT launched, outlining how GenAI would disrupt hiring by dropping application costs to zero. Shifted how leaders approached AI, presented to 500 recruiters.
07AI Skills Taskforce Seat
Sat on the CBI’s AI Skills Task and Finish Group, shaping a national report on AI-ready workforce skills. Informing government policy on training, apprenticeships and levy reform.
08Chatbot Frees Up a Team
Saved the equivalent of over 100 working days of a team’s attention by building a chatbot to field the queries interrupting them, while raising awareness of their projects further.
09Capturing Candidate Intelligence
Redesigned a high-friction Slack tool into a one-click browser survey feeding a live dashboard, surfacing real candidate sentiment. Scaled entries 50x, to 10,000 a month.
1010-Year Workforce Model
Commissioned to map the trends shaping the UK labour force over the next decade. Delivered datasets, a research paper and a senior workshop, seeding working groups on older workers and apprentices.
11European Pay Strategy
Modelled hyperlocal pay, benefits and EVP across European competitors. Informed £500m in additional pay, securing drivers through rapid growth and Covid.
12Accessible Onboarding Tool
Built an AI tool translating workplace instructions into plain language, helping interns with SEND build understanding as part of a supported internship programme.
13AI Confidence, Delivered Globally
Delivered AI and data confidence sessions across the UK, Europe, US, Japan and the Middle East, spanning many sectors, later extending into schools, universities and charities.
14Charity Donations, Automated
Delivered an AI tool mapping charity donations to inventory categories with near-perfect consistency, speeding up delivery to people in need.
15Cross-Culture Leadership Tool
Built an AI tool combining academic frameworks on cultural dimensions with real team data, helping managers lead across cultures and geographies.
16Profitability Early Warning
Designed a system inferring financial risk for hundreds of partner companies from operational signals, triggering proactive check-ins and coaching before problems took hold and threatened operations.
17New Markets Research
Wrote research papers with data-backed recommendations on attracting talent against immovable constraints, capped wages and scarce local pools, across niche geographies and roles globally.
18Early Careers Policy
Contributed to national policy conversations through Westminster Education Forum, working with apprenticeship providers and school trusts on seeding future workforce skills.
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