Advisory servicesThree ways I work with digital and AI companies. Each engagement is independent, confidential and drawn from thirty years of running these businesses myself.
01 — CEO AdvisoryA confidential, independent thinking partner for founders and CEOs of digital and AI businesses carrying significant responsibility.
Leadership can be isolating there are decisions that can’t always be shared internally, and pressure that builds quietly. I work one-to-one with CEOs and founders as a trusted, independent sounding board: someone who has run these businesses and can help you think clearly in the moments that matter most.
What that includes
Confidential 1-1 advisory for CEOs and founders
Support navigating growth, funding, restructuring or succession
A space to pressure-test decisions before they’re made
Drawn from direct experience as CEO, Chairman and NED, not leadership theory
02 — Leadership Team AdvisoryWorking with the senior team as a group, alignment, decision-making and pace when the business is changing faster than the structure around it.
Growth exposes the seams in a leadership team: decisions that stall, roles that blur, and a strategy everyone describes slightly differently. I work with senior teams to sharpen how they decide together and hold each other to account bringing the perspective of someone who has run these businesses and carried the same pressures.
What that includes
Facilitated sessions with the full leadership team
Clarity on decision rights, roles and accountability
Alignment on strategy and priorities through growth or change
Support through leadership transitions and new team formations
03 — AI Governance & Risk AdvisoryPractical governance for the leaders deploying AI — built on direct operating experience, not general frameworks.
As AI moves from pilot to production, leadership teams face questions they haven’t faced before: what autonomy to allow, how to maintain audit trails, and where accountability sits when an AI agent acts on the business’s behalf. Through my work with Exception and Udal, I bring practical, tested governance thinking to the leaders navigating this — not theoretical frameworks, but the real questions regulated and high-stakes organisations are already working through.
What that includes
AI governance and risk frameworks for leadership teams
Policy and accountability structures for AI agents acting autonomously
Executive briefings on AI risk, audit and compliance
Advisory drawn from live work building AI governance infrastructure (Udal)