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Taking creative control of the AI imaging
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Sketch-first, AI-second: how I used “visual assistance sketching” with Nana Banana to regain control in concept development The last few days I’ve been doing a small but telling concept development […]
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Square Life Stages Framework
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What if we’ve been celebrating the wrong milestones all along? Instead of centring our lives around decade birthdays — the 30s, 40s, 50s — what if we began celebrating the […]
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Leadership for the Complex and Chaotic present (DIS presentation link)
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From Engineering Logic to Situational Leadership The presentation linked above is one I recently gave to hundreds of business leaders with strong engineering and operational backgrounds. The audience spanned senior […]
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Wave 3 Transformation: The Missing Leadership Layer
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Across large-scale transformations—digital, product, AI, operating model, and culture—a recurring three-wave pattern appears with striking consistency. I have seen it repeat across organizations, industries, and leadership teams for more than […]
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Design Thinking Strategy
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Design Thinking Strategy – A Framework for Organisations Ready to Transform Design Thinking has been through cycles. Ten years ago it surged with momentum—high expectations, colourful post-its, and promises of […]
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The Decompression Zone: Self-Leadership in Times of Creative Destruction
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These months, many industries are shifting at a speed we haven’t seen in decades. Entire disciplines are disappearing one place and other reappearing elsewhere. New roles, new skills, new technologies, […]
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Climbing the Corporate Design Ladder
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Introducing strategic design in the enterprise organisation can be done by paying attention to the design ladder At the outset of our design practice in my current company, we had […]
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PAK vs KAP
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A New Approach to Organizational Transformation PAK versus KAP — Rethinking How We Learn and Lead Change I once had the privilege of being taught and mentored by Jerry Sternin, […]