Builders, not consultants.

He built Challenger House because the pattern repeated everywhere he looked, the system slows the very people it hired to move fast. His craft is making the unwritten explicit and the missing middle visible, so a team can build what it finds. He reads AI as the organisational design question of the decade, and does the inner work himself, because you cannot guide people through a transition you have not made.

• 25 years in organisational development, facilitation and executive coaching.
• Inside the leadership systems of Microsoft, Telefónica, Sanofi and E.ON.
• Advisory work with ventures including Xempus and Desolenator.
• Designed and led the E.ON Sprint, incl. 3-Day Residency.

Will challenge you on treating AI as another tool rollout.

His work sits where the technology meets the people using it, on what AI does to judgment and decision quality, and on what it takes for a leadership team to stay in charge of both. He developed the Plausibility Illusion framework and a cognitive-effects model that lets leaders feel how AI shifts their decisions before they are taught why. A keynote speaker on AI and human-centred leadership, and curator of the DRANBLEIBEN newsletter and podcast.

• 25+ years in tech, Silicon Valley (Yahoo!) through to Deutsche Telekom.
• Led Strategic Communications and the Think Tank for the CTIO board member.
• Co-founded a 500-person community for responsible technology.
• Author of the Plausibility Illusion framework; designed the E.ON "Case" exercise.

Will challenge you when you use AI to do the old things faster and call it progress, when the plausible answer wins because it arrived first, and when nobody is asking who cleans up the polished output.

The safety net, the person who makes sure what gets built in the room can survive procurement, legal review and IT governance. She stress-tests frontier tooling most AI consultancies have not heard of yet, and she knows how to get a great deal more out of the tools a client already has. No corporate background, which is why she still asks the questions insiders stopped asking.

• Exited serial founder-operator.
• Ships AI in regulated environments: security, compliance, data governance.
• Runs autonomous agents daily on her own infrastructure.
• Builds the artefacts that survive procurement and IT governance.

Will challenge you to talk less, plan less, look at fewer slides, and get your hands dirty. Do it, do it together, learn fast.