Performance Over Pedigree
A practical challenge to how institutions judge capability.
Audience outcome
How selection, sponsorship and progression systems can filter out performance.
Keynotes · Executive talks · Curated conversations
First-hand experience, made useful.
I speak about leadership, technology and institutional change from direct experience of leading inside complex institutions.
Selected roomsMansion House · Transport for London · Ghanaians in Tech · Shaw Trust · LSE
Featured topics
Three arguments, shaped for your audience.
Each talk combines a clear argument, first-hand experience and questions the audience can take back to work.
When Technology Outruns the Institution
What experience inside complex operations teaches us about scaling technology responsibly.
Audience outcome
What ownership, evidence and controls need to catch up with ambition.
The Unconventional Leader in the Age of AI
Why adaptive judgement becomes more valuable as established knowledge becomes cheaper.
Audience outcome
What AI can accelerate—and what leaders still need to own.
From the Mansion House keynote“Your unconventional path is your edge.”
Ways to engage
Keynotes · Executive talks · Fireside conversations · Moderation · Roundtables