If you want innovation, then look inside your business.

As entrepreneur, corporate advisor and business school lecturer, Charlie combines the lived experience of building a business with deep understanding of the commercial and operational complexities faced by today’s business leaders.

He helps business leaders to harness AI and to unleash the Hidden Pioneers inside your organisation to shape the future of your industry

Business transformation is notoriously hard. Many consultancies offer long-term, hands-on support, but this approach is different. It’s built on the belief that ownership is the foundation of both innovation and transformation.

Leaders must own their transformation journey, stepping into the unknown, changing how they operate, and reshaping behaviours across their organisation. I provide the frameworks and principles of successful transformation, but it’s the leaders themselves who turn these into lasting, system-wide change.

The CEO sounding board

Sense-check your AI strategy, scrutinise risks and opportunities, and stress-test your mobilisation plan to ensure you’re making the right decisions, capturing value, and set up to deliver innovation (90 mins, in person)

Leadership team retreat

Align your top team around a compelling shared vision for AI. Inspire individual leadership ambition, while positioning the business at the forefront of AI innovation. Develop the mindset and capability needed to lead transformation, with a clear transformation plan to drive adoption and success (2 to 3 days, offsite)

Transformation readiness assessment    

Diagnose your readiness to transform. A comprehensive assessment tool that evaluates every element required for successful transformation: from personal leadership traits and team dynamics to organisational culture, processes and governance (light touch and in-depth options)

Corporate Innovation

Charlie has worked with business leaders and intrapreneurs in these organisations: