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Independent Practice · Senior AI Advisory, Faculty & Founder

One senior practice across enterprise AI strategy, executive education and applied AI.

A multi-client senior practice combining Fractional Chief AI Officer engagements (Clarity Diagnostic), executive education at the Irish Management Institute (Programme Director & Faculty), and Future Academy, the school built to prove that AI capability comes from building, not watching.

Case at a glance— 01
Problem type

Redesign at scale

The mandate

Run a senior advisory and faculty practice with the discipline of a corporate function, governance, IP, repeatable methods, while staying close enough to the work to ship real digital workers, not just decks.

Workstreams

1

Distinct parts of the intervention

Headline result

3 modes

Advisory · Faculty · Founder

Measured outcomes— 02
3 modes
Advisory · Faculty · Founder
Multi-sector
Enterprise + SMB + education
EU AI Act
Governance aligned
1 practice
Multiple engagements, one standard
The situation— 03
Context

What was happening.

After Workday, the question was where 20 years of enterprise transformation, analytics and AI governance experience lands hardest. The answer is a single practice with three modes: advisory for leadership teams operationalising AI, faculty for executives learning to lead hybrid workforces, and Future Academy for the next generation. One practice, multiple engagements, one operating standard.

Mandate

What had to change.

Run a senior advisory and faculty practice with the discipline of a corporate function, governance, IP, repeatable methods, while staying close enough to the work to ship real digital workers, not just decks.

What changed

The moves that made the difference.

The intervention, broken into the moves that mattered.

01

Highlights

5 moves
  • Fractional Chief AI Officer at Clarity Diagnostic, AI operating models, prioritised use cases, deployed digital workers and lightweight governance aligned to the EU AI Act across multi-sector SMB engagements.
  • Programme Director & Faculty at the Irish Management Institute, designed and lead 'Leading the Human-AI Workforce', IMI's flagship two-day executive programme on the HIT 2.0 model.
  • Founder of Future Academy, applied AI education for Transition Year students, SMBs and enterprise teams, launched at Microsoft Ireland, scaling nationally with Turnua.
  • Lead Architect on a confidential subsea contractor's Mission Control build, a 5-week Phase 1 replacing fragmented tools with a Lovable + Claude + MCP operating layer.
  • One operating standard across every engagement: governance from day one, written method, measurable outcomes, no bespoke heroics.
What I would carry forward
Independent practice only works if it runs with more discipline than a corporate function, not less. The umbrella is the discipline.
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