Speaker | Organisational intelligence
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"We wanted someone who would engage our leaders differently, make them think along new lines, stretch their ideas, perhaps make some uncomfortable, but above all consider our future in a new light. Ade did this brilliantly."
Helen MacPhee, VP Finance, Astra Zeneca
The work I do with organisations is grounded in the research and exploration of The Intelligent Organisation, a think tank examining how organisations must evolve to survive and thrive amidst constant disruption. This page focuses on my public speaking focus.
My talks are not about motivating leaders to try harder. They are designed to unsettle outdated assumptions about leadership, decision-making and organisational design that no longer to apply to an increasingly uncertain world.
Participants typically leave these sessions beginning to see disruption as a design problem rather than a leadership failure, recognising where cognition is constrained by structure and governance, and questioning industrial-era assumptions that no longer hold.
For some organisations, a talk is enough to start the conversation. For others, it exposes deeper structural questions that require hands-on work.