Speaking and media
An experienced voice for the rooms where this gets decided.
Boards, conferences and institutions are being asked to form a view on AI faster than the evidence arrives. Most of what reaches them is either vendor material or academic distance.
I speak from the operator's seat: what works, what quietly fails, and what a leadership team has to decide before any of it matters.
Recent appearances
- Podcast
November 2025
45 min
How to blitz-scale from 10 to 100 in six months
Scaling in the Sand, episode 1, with Lloyd Cremer
What actually breaks when an engineering organisation grows tenfold in half a year, and which of those breakages are worth accepting at the time.
Watch on YouTubeTalent and Organisation · Product and Engineering - Webinar
September 2025
1h 33m
The Future of Work
Drive To Inspire — Africa
How AI changes what a technology organisation needs from its people, and why the constraint is usually the operating model rather than the tooling.
Watch on YouTubeTalent and Organisation · Agentic Enterprise - Interview
January 2025
54 min
With a clear vision, anything is possible
Coach to Success, with Halian
On the route from engineer to technology leadership, and what a clear vision is worth when the plan beneath it keeps changing.
Watch on YouTubeTalent and Organisation · AI-Native CTO
What I am asked to cover
Board and executive briefings, keynotes, panels and moderation, and leadership programmes. The recurring questions are what an AI-native operating model actually changes, why pilots stall for organisational reasons rather than technical ones, and what has to be true before an agent is allowed near production.
Looking for someone to put in front of your room?
Tell me the audience, the format and the question you want answered. If I am the wrong voice for it, I will say so and suggest who might be better.
Start a Conversation