Insights on Technology Delivery, Innovation, and People
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Whether you prefer watching, reading, or quick insights on the go, I share regularly across LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, and Bluesky. Follow me where it fits you best, or explore them all to see the full picture.
LinkedIn is where I am most active, sharing posts, articles, interviews, and shorts. I also regulalry share and repost active job roles.
I don’t use Twitter (X) anymore, so Bluesky is my go to place for microblogging. I push out all my articles, interviews, and shorts.
I post shorts, videos, interviews, and have playlists on YouTube.
I post shorts, videos, interviews, and have playlists on TikTok.
Playlist Examples (YouTube)
To give you a flavour of the kind of content I produce, I’ve shared a few of my YouTube playlists below. These examples reflect my style of making content clear, engaging, and useful for professionals navigating change and innovation.
Getting a New Role
Artificial Intelligence
Adopting the Cloud, Well
Articles
Each article below is written to be practical and thought-provoking, offering readers clear takeaways they can apply to both their organisations and their own development.
Write the Intent, Not the Plan
Ask someone where they want to be in five years and you’ll get a destination: a title, a salary, a city. None of those tells you what a person is actually for. This piece is about writing down the layer almost everyone skips, and leaving out the rest.
The Transformation Nobody Announced
The largest change to knowledge work in decades is arriving in most organisations with no programme, no strapline, and nobody saying what it’s for. This piece is about what a successful transformation did differently, and why AI adoption keeps failing for reasons that aren’t technical.
Somebody Has to Hold the Ruler
AI has enormous capability and almost no measurement. While the frontier labs build, the universities are quietly building the ruler: open models, independent evaluation, and an assurance discipline. The question is whether a sector running a £5.5 billion research deficit can afford to finish it.
Still Queuing at the Door
A record number of people applied to UK universities this year, while graduate vacancies fell to a decade low. The threat to higher education is not that students stop coming. It is what waits on the other side, and who pays for the research in the meantime.
The Street Is the Laboratory Now
The Manchester Baby was a university machine, and industry, government and academia built what came next together. Eighty years on, the research happens at corporate speed, on public roads and in public services, funded by capital no university can match. This piece is about what that cost us, and who never agreed to take part.
A Brief History of AI – LLMs
The phone in your pocket is a bundle of other people’s decades, and so is the model you chat to. This is the timeline I wanted for myself: eighty years of ideas, from the first artificial neuron to ChatGPT, with the stalls, the unfashionable bets and the people who were told they were wasting their time. If you arrived after November 2022, this is the backfill.
What a Leader Is For
You delegate something that matters, and a week later it isn’t being done the way you’d have done it. Every instinct says take it back. This piece is about why that urge is so strong, and why resisting it is most of what leadership actually is.
The Interface Was the Revolution
For seventy years we spoke the machine’s language. Now it speaks ours, and that shift, not raw capability, is the real revolution. This piece explores natural language as the interface that finally lets us govern intent and hand the execution to machines.
The Foundation and the Frontier
You can’t hand someone judgement. You can only draw it out of them. AI can bring a newcomer right up to the edge of what a field knows, but only people can grow the judgement to go past it. This piece is about developing others in an age of capable machines.
The Work Made Us
We didn’t only produce work. The work produced us. As machines take on the doing, the expertise that used to accrue quietly, just by doing the job, stops arriving for free. This piece explores the apprenticeship we’re automating away, why the craft is changing rather than vanishing, and how we now grow people on purpose.
The Weight of Judgement
As AI produces more analysis, options and confident recommendations, judgement does not disappear. It becomes more exposed. This piece explores the human moment after the answer arrives: the point where someone still has to weigh the trade-offs, make the call, and carry the consequences.
The Power of Presence in an AI Age
Some of the most important moments in coaching are the ones where nothing happens. No clever question, no advice, just staying with someone while they find their way to what they came to say. That quality of attention is presence, and it may matter more than ever.
The Discipline of Intent
We are far less certain about what we want than we like to believe. As machines take on more of the doing, the harder and more human task becomes deciding what is worth doing at all. This is the discipline of intent, and why it matters more than ever.
Explicitly Human
A conversation about AI and coaching led to a bigger question: what does it mean to be deliberately human in an increasingly automated world? Explicitly Human explores the capacities that may matter more, not less, as technology advances: presence, judgement, connection and the ability to shape good intent.
Reflecting on AI and a Tired Industry
The direction is clear. The world is not ready. A reflection on the exhaustion between those two facts, and whether we are walking the dot-com road again.
Seeing Your Impact as a Senior Leader
The Quiet Summit: Seeing Your Impact as a Senior Leader I've ecently been having the same conversation during coaching sessions. A capable, accomplished senior leader sits across from me and, often with some embarrassment, admits that they are no longer sure they are...