About People & AI

The name is no accident.
People comes first.

People & AI was founded by Janus Kierkegaard on an observation that has repeated itself many times by now: when AI bets disappoint, it is rarely the technology that is wrong. It is the organisation around it.

Many AI initiatives start, naturally enough, with the technology: tools, integrations, a pilot or two. But when they have to create effect in everyday work, the challenge quickly moves into leadership, organisation and ways of working. That is where I come in.

AI is the common thread in everything I do. I do not do general culture analysis or leadership development in general. I look at culture to the extent it decides whether you succeed with AI, and I work with leaders who have to figure out how to lead when the technology moves faster than the organisation.

The experience behind it

This is not theory for me. I have stood with the task myself.

For more than 20 years I have worked with transformation at the intersection of business and technology, most recently responsible for AI and automation in a large and heavily regulated organisation. I have held the practical responsibility for GenAI adoption, not just advised on it from the outside, and I have worked with business process transformation in a reality where things rarely work out as cleanly as they look on a slide.

Along the way I have sat with leadership teams, middle managers and employees, facilitated workshops and given talks, and followed transformation programmes from decision to everyday. It has given me a fairly concrete sense of the difference between when the technology is ready and when the organisation is.

How I work

Success is measured in business results, not in the number of workshops or licences. I try to separate what we actually know, what the data points to, from what we simply believe right now. And I treat the technology as the easy part, because it usually is.

Tell me what you are facing

A few lines about your situation is enough. You talk to me directly and get an honest answer.

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