Data & AI Strategy
Senior consultant with [X]+ years leading data and AI transformations across complex organisations. I help leadership teams build strategies and capabilities that make data-driven decisions the norm — not the exception.
Expertise
Defining where data can create genuine competitive advantage — and building the roadmap, governance, and investment case to get there. From board vision to tactical execution.
Scaling analytics from ad hoc reporting to enterprise-wide intelligence. Designing programmes that land in production, not slide decks — including responsible AI and model governance.
Designing team structures, platform architecture, and ways of working that let organisations extract sustained value from data — balancing central control with domain agility.
Building data fluency at board and ExCo level. Coaching senior leaders and creating internal capability that sustains transformation long after the engagement ends.
Achievements
Led the design of a three-year data strategy for a [X,000]-person organisation, aligning [X] business units behind a single data vision. Secured board-level investment and established a central data function from scratch. Delivered measurable improvements in decision-making speed within [X] months.
Designed and led a machine learning programme to transform customer retention — moving from fragmented reporting to predictive modelling at enterprise scale. The programme became a group-wide template, adopted across multiple business units.
Diagnosed a fragmented data landscape across [X] business units and designed a federated operating model — balancing central governance with domain-level ownership. Reduced time-to-insight by [X]% and significantly cut duplication costs.
Designed and facilitated a senior leadership capability programme raising data fluency at ExCo and board level. Enabled leaders to challenge vendors, own data-driven decisions, and embed accountability for data quality at the very top of the organisation.
Philosophy
Every data and AI initiative should be traceable to a business outcome. I start with the problem the organisation needs to solve, not the technology available to solve it.
Perfection is the enemy of progress. I help organisations move at pace — delivering early value, building momentum, and scaling what works.
The best engagement leaves the organisation stronger than I found it. I embed skills, ways of working, and confidence — not reliance on external advice.
I tell clients what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. Strategic clarity — including the hard conversations — is the most valuable thing I can offer.
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Available for strategic engagements, interim data leadership, and board advisory roles. Based in the East Midlands — working UK-wide.