Redesigning how work gets done.
I help CEOs and CHROs redesign how work gets done, combining human expertise, automation and AI.
Ambition is clear. Execution is where it gets diluted.
Most leadership teams no longer need convincing.
Transformation moves into execution, and existing processes, systems and priorities introduce reasonable compromises.
I work between leadership and the teams responsible for execution to ensure transformation delivers according to the plan.
The moments leadership brings me in.
The vision is clear. The path isn't.
Leadership knows how work needs to change. Translating that ambition into execution is the challenge.
The team has the capability. Not the bandwidth.
The right people are in place, but day-to-day priorities leave little space to step back, challenge the approach and drive transformation.
Vision and execution are drifting apart.
Leadership and operational teams share the ambition, but execution is progressively moving away from it.
A critical workflow needs to be redesigned.
The question is no longer how to optimise the process, but how human expertise, automation and AI should work together.
From ambition to execution.
Understand
I get close to the teams and how work gets done. I map the workflow, understand the constraints and identify where the gaps are.
Redesign
We rethink the workflow together, combining human expertise, automation and AI around what the organisation can actually execute.
Challenge
I stay close as the transformation moves forward. I challenge assumptions, bring the outside in and flag when execution starts drifting from the ambition.
Selected examples of advisory work.
Turning a CHRO's transformation ambition into execution
Situation. In a 1,000+ employee technology company, leadership had a clear ambition to redesign critical People workflows. The internal team had the capability, but limited bandwidth and significant operational constraints.
My role. Work between leadership and the delivery team: challenge the target model, bring an outside perspective, support workflow redesign and stay close through execution.
Objective. Ensure what gets delivered still reflects the transformation leadership originally had in mind.
Redesigning the core workflow of a 500+ person advisory business
Situation. A multi-country advisory business operating across 8+ markets wanted to rethink how its core professional workflow should evolve with automation and AI.
My role. Review the end-to-end workflow, challenge existing processes and tools, and help redesign how human expertise and technology should work together.
Objective. Define a more coherent operating model for how hundreds of professionals deliver their work.
Rethinking hiring across 13 countries and 40+ open roles
Situation. A 2-person Talent Acquisition team was managing 40+ roles across 13 countries. Parts of the hiring operation were structured; the rest had become increasingly ad hoc.
My role. Diagnose the hiring system, redesign critical workflows and define a practical operating playbook the team could own.
Objective. Build a scalable, repeatable hiring system without simply adding headcount or complexity.
My job is to bring the outside in.
I spend my time working with established organisations, building with technology and staying close to what is emerging. I see what is changing, what is becoming possible and how new ways of working are emerging.
I help translate that outside perspective into something your organisation can actually execute.
Leadership perspective. Builder mindset.
I spent more than 12 years building and operating businesses across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, becoming Partner at Lincoln.
I then moved from advising and operating to building technology myself. I founded Talent-e, a software company focused on how technology could reshape professional workflows, which I later exited.
I've worked on both sides of transformation: shaping the ambition at leadership level and facing the constraints of building and execution myself.
Today, I bring those two perspectives together, with a deep conviction that how we work is about to fundamentally change.
Have a transformation in mind?
Let's discuss the ambition, the reality of execution, and where an outside perspective could help.
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