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I help leaders create intelligent organisations optimised to embrace disruption

Leaders today are ill-equipped to handle increasing disruption and are looking for an approach that enables their organisations to adapt accordingly rather than ‘putting all their chips on black’ and hoping for the best.

Unfortunately, the business schools and the business literature reflect more innocent times. Thus leaders find themselves in uncharted territory without a map and compass.

My approach recognises that to engage effectively with one’s environment, it is better to operate as a living organism than an inert, process-oriented factory. This approach plays to our natural intelligence. It also makes use of new technologies to enhance our organisation’s ability to sense, decide and act accordingly.

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Disruption

Leadership

Transformation

Future of work

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My solutions

Keynoting: I speak at events ranging from intimate groups to large scale conferences. Learn more…

Advisory: I advise leaders on transformational matters. Learn more…

Intelligent Leadership Hub: I have set up an initiative to rethink leadership development. Learn more…

About me

I am a former technologist who today advises and speaks on transformational matters. I have almost four decades of experience, acquired globally across many sectors. Learn more…

Some career highlights

ILH
Founder of the Intelligent Leadership Hub
FT
Financial Times columnist on digital leadership
Moller
Associate, Moller Institute, University of Cambridge
MIT
Guest lecturer on digital leadership at MIT Sloan School of Management

We wanted someone who would engage our leadership differently. Ade did this brilliantly.  Engaging, fast paced and multifaceted. Just what was needed to shake things up a little in the last session of our conference!

Helen MacPhee
VP Finance
AstraZeneca

We recently held a conference in Milan around “Digital” for our senior partners throughout the MED region (Italy, Spain and Portugal) and Ade joined us by VC as a keynote speaker. Even by VC Ade kept the audience captive with lots of note taking and it also provoked a lot of discussion after the event. One of the most compelling keynote speakers that we have had in the MED region.

Joanne Jones
EMEIA Markets Operations And Execution Team Leader
EY

Ade understands business and IT opportunities through the lens of executives and how to present this back in a concise manner with clear takeaways.

Robbert Kuppens
Global CIO
Boston Consulting Group

Ade spoke at an event for around 250 of our UK & Israel Technology team. Ade has a fantastic presentation style, and it was clear in the prep calls that he was able to take our overall theme of the event and link that to his presentation. I would highly recommend Ade as a motivational speaker and thought leader.

Hannah Bertolone
Cloud Programme Leader
Oracle

Ade McCormack sounds a much-needed clarion call for IT to “grow up”  and become a mature business function.

Nicholas Carr
Former editor
Harvard Business Review

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