My career in banking and financial services began in 1987. Over nearly four decades, my professional experience has included Deutsche Bank, UBS, Pictet & Cie and the Emirates NBD Group, among other...

Of all the businesses I imagined building, a fax company was never on the list. Seriously, who wakes up thinking, “You know what the world needs? Better faxing.” Apparently, I did. Not because faxing...

A few days ago, I stood on stage at the UAE AI Festival in Abu Dhabi and shared a thought that has been on my mind for quite some time, “The greatest risk of AI isn't that machines become more human...

When we ask AI to help us do our work, we usually start by explaining the task. But there's another conversation we need to have first: How should it think about the work we're asking it to do? A...

Tokenisation is creating new opportunities to transform financial markets, from real estate and private credit to funds and government bonds. But while the technology continues to advance, a critical question...

This dialogue with Richard Dobson is about elevating differences as critically essential elements for growth, acceptance, and the way toward sought-after understanding. I present a metaphysical aspect...

Disconnected systems slow decisions, create rework and weaken customer service. A focused 120 day programme can begin restoring control by improving the processes and data behind them. The...

What if the biggest opportunity in AI isn't building the technology, but knowing what to do with it? For years, professionals have been told to learn AI or risk falling behind. But after working with...

As artificial intelligence reshapes the global real estate industry, WeValue AI is introducing a new approach to property valuation in the Middle East. In this exclusive interview with Brainz Magazine...

The Civic Codex began in longhand. I was writing down what more than thirty years in advocacy, activism, training, and organizing had taught me: the questions that expose a weak campaign, the decisions...

For most of modern organisational history, consciousness within institutions has been treated as fundamentally human. Not consciousness in the neurological sense, but organisational...

For the past few years, much of the conversation about artificial intelligence has focused on what AI will be able to do. What tasks will it automate? Which jobs will change? Which professions will be...

When I built software fifteen years ago, I accepted a simple truth: you couldn't possibly know everything at the beginning of a project. That was the philosophy behind Agile. You started with a vision...

Most of us know what a bad password looks like. We know we shouldn't use our pet's name, our birthday, or the infamous "Password123!" Yet despite years of cybersecurity awareness campaigns....

Some of the biggest barriers to artificial intelligence have very little to do with artificial intelligence. They are old processes that nobody questions, reports that continue because they have always existed...

I asked a student this while coaching him through a research paper. Like many students, he had taken key points straight from AI without questioning them. My question stopped him and prompted a...

Something strange has happened to the way senior professionals write about their work. If you've read a dozen LinkedIn thought leadership posts, a handful of business books published in the last...

Every week a parent asks me some version of the same question. My child is already using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) app for homework, so do we still need a tutor? It is a fair question, and the...

People ask me how to stay competitive when every competitor suddenly has access to the exact same artificial intelligence models. They expect a technical answer. A newer framework, a faster compute...

In recent conversations with clients and friends, I have noticed how often artificial intelligence (AI) brings up uncertainty about the future. Early concerns focused mainly on AI going rogue and taking over the world.

Recently, my engineer asked me why anyone would use my AI sobriety app, Sol, instead of ChatGPT. I didn't have the perfect answer that night. So I went away and built one properly. It was...

I've spent decades building teams, and if you know me, you know the one thing I keep saying: people matter. Sure, we live in a world of artificial intelligence (AI), but human judgment is still essential...

There is a question I have found myself asking more than once over the past few years, "Would I still be here if I had not had AI helping me through some of the hardest moments of my life?" That is...

The personal trainers who thrive in the next decade won’t be the ones who fear artificial intelligence (AI). They’ll be the ones who learn how to use it to become better professionals. Personal training...