Keynote speaker · Advisor · Author
AI can draft the plan. It cannot decide if the plan is right.
Your teams are already using AI. The open question is where its output can be trusted, and who is answerable when it is wrong. I work with leadership teams on that judgment: setting the objective, directing the work, checking the output, and owning the outcome. And I run the measurement programme that tests whether any of this holds up in practice.
Keynotes at Google Campus South Korea and the PIKOM GBS Summit. Generative AI leadership sessions for the INSEAD Malaysia MBA. Currently advising SD Guthrie, a regional Fortune 500.
33,000
employees reached by the HSBC transformation I was one of five managers globally chosen to lead
241%
revenue growth delivered as general manager at Electrolux Malaysia
2,000
delegates in the room for a single keynote in Jakarta, the largest audience I have spoken to
25yrs
across Asia Pacific, the UK, the US and Australia
How this helps your organisation
Your teams do not need another summary of AI headlines.
They need evidence that helps leaders decide where AI belongs, what could go wrong, and what has to stay human-led. Through AIR APAC, the institution I lead, I run a published measurement of how AI systems represent organisations and places across Asia Pacific. The method is public. The results are free to whoever was measured.
In a keynote or briefing, that evidence becomes the material we work through together: not what AI can do in general, but what your leaders and teams need to decide, check and own next. Including the parts that did not work.
Signature keynotes
Three talks, each anchored to something measured.
Every session is shaped around your audience before the day. Live or online, 45 minutes to a half day.
The judgment AI does not replace
Why capable teams with good tools still make worse decisions than they did before.
What AI systems say about your destination
Something already answers on your behalf. Here is what it is saying.
Governing what you cannot see
AI-mediated discovery is a governance question wearing a marketing costume.
The book · November 2026
The Human Layer
What the 5% of AI winners build that everyone else skips
AI transformation does not fail at the technology layer alone. It fails in the human systems around it: how leaders decide, how teams change, and how organisations turn new capability into useful work.
416 pages, written and finished. It goes on sale in November 2026. The opening chapters are readable now.
Read the opening chapters
Download the opening of The Human Layer free. First name and email only.
Rooms I have worked in
Stages, faculty, and record
Experience across organisations and sectors.
Keynote speaker, Google Campus South Korea
Delivered to the founder and startup community in Seoul
Keynote speaker, PIKOM GBS Summit
Malaysia’s national technology industry association summit
Generative AI leadership facilitator, INSEAD Malaysia MBA
Sessions on AI leadership for the MBA programme
Facilitator, The CEO Institute Australia
Peer-group facilitation for chief executives
Selected for the Korean government startup accelerator
Founder coaching and market strategy, in partnership with WeWork and Harvard Business School
Google, generative AI, machine learning and AI
Qualification completed 2023
Author, The Human Layer
416 pages on the human systems around AI adoption. Out November 2026
Insights
One evidence-based piece a week, including what did not work.
Findings carry the artefact they came from. Arguments are marked as arguments. One piece so far is about something that failed.
Newsletter
One evidence-based piece a week, from measurements I run.
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Book a date
Give your audience evidence they can apply.
Tell me the date, the city and the audience, and I will let you know quickly whether it is a good fit for your programme. Next confirmed: 10th TPO Forum, Taichung, Taiwan, 16 to 18 September 2026.