Data & AI Strategy
Senior consultant with 29+ 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 multi-year data strategies for a two multi-national organisations, aligning dozens of 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 6 months.
Defined enterprise Agentic AI architecture and governance, enabling scalable AI use case delivery across the organisation. Demonstrated measurable impact on commercial performance through consumer feedback and agent-driven decision intelligence.
Delivered the Enterprise Data Management and MDM foundations strategy and architecture enabling trusted, AI-ready data through governance, Golden Records, and data quality.
Established enterprise Data Foundations enabling reusable, governed data assets across all business domains. Deliverables included reference architecture, technology and data roadmaps, capability models, data product taxonomy, data governance uplift and establishing domain delivery programmes.
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.