The Practice  /  The Rooms

Much of the work begins in a room.

A working session with a board. A quarterly table of peers. A classroom, a stage. These are the forms a room with me takes. The subjects run across the practice — AI first, and with it the four resets, capital and risk, and the leaders and people who carry an institution through change.

For Boards and Executive Teams

The Senior Team Briefing

Ninety minutes · complimentary · your room, in person or virtual

AI is the question I am asked about most often, and it is the right place to start. This is a ninety-minute working session with you and your senior team on what is actually happening with AI — and what it means for your company.

You will leave with three things: a common understanding, across the team, of AI, opportunities, and the changes moving with it — including the risks that senior teams and boards are rightly concerned about; a clear view of how other companies are embracing AI — what is working for them, what is not — and what lessons we can learn from their experiences; and what priorities your organisation can set for AI, through a short facilitation at the close.

The session is complimentary.

Quarterly · invitation only

The Practitioner’s Room

Eight to ten seniors · one question · Chatham House rules

Each quarter I host a small roundtable — eight to ten board members, chief executives, and senior leaders, around one question that matters right now: where AI is taking institutions, where capital is moving, how risk is changing, how organisations carry their people through change. Ninety minutes, Chatham House rules, no observers.

There is a short pre-read, and the discussion runs on the experience in the room — peers comparing what they are actually seeing and doing. Membership of each edition is by invitation. If you would like to join a future table, write to me.

Programs & internal forums

Teaching

Board-education modules · leadership forums · executive programs

I teach from practice — the decisions I have sat in, and the evidence behind them. The sessions cover the four resets and how they cascade; achieving business outcomes with AI; what the financial reset does to portfolios and balance sheets; and leading people through transformation.

For institutions this usually takes the form of an internal leadership forum or a board-education module; for schools and executive programs, a guest session. Each one is shaped to the audience in the room.

Conferences & stages

Speaking

The arguments of the practice, with their evidence

Talks drawn from the work of the practice: why most AI investment produces no value, and what the few do differently; how a board decides on AI; the financial reset, from index concentration to the end of the old portfolio rules; and what a world remaking itself asks of the people who run institutions.

Producers and program teams will find formats, a bio, and materials on the platforms & press page.

The Senior Team Briefing

Tell me a little about your team, and what is prompting this.

This reaches me directly. The session is complimentary — I’ll reply myself, usually within a day or two, with possible timings and what I would bring to your room.

Received.

Your note is with me. I’ll reply personally, usually within a day or two, with possible timings.

The Practitioner’s Room

Tell me about the seat you hold.

Each edition is a small table. I reply myself about the next one.

Received.

Your note is with me. I’ll reply personally about the next edition.

Teaching

Tell me about the program, and the people in the seats.

I’ll come back with what I would teach that room, and how.

Received.

Your note is with me. I’ll reply personally with what I would bring to that room.

Speaking

Tell me about the stage.

Formats, bio, and materials are on the platforms & press page — the talk itself is shaped to your audience.

Received.

Your note is with me. I’ll reply personally about the stage and the fit.

An invitation

If a room like these belongs in your institution, I would welcome the conversation.

No intake process, no gatekeeper. A note reaches me directly, and I reply myself — usually within a day or two.

This comes straight to my inbox. I read every note personally and reply myself — not a team, not an auto-responder.

Message received

Thank you — your note has reached me.

It comes straight to my inbox, and I reply personally — usually within a day or two. I look forward to the conversation.

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