CEO advisory · Leadership teams
Advisory for CEOs and leadership teams of digital and AI companies.
Thirty years building, leading and advising AI, digital and software businesses across Scotland and the UK. Now I help the leaders of AI, digital and software companies do the same with greater clarity, better decisions and fewer mistakes.
“Great leadership isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about knowing which questions matter.”
The Entrepreneurs Book
Neil Francis
THE WORKLeading a digital or AI company today means making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information, often alone. I work with CEOs and senior leadership teams who value an experienced, independent perspective alongside them, someone who has built and run these businesses and understands how to govern the risks that come with them.
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A confidential thinking partner for founders and CEOs navigating growth, change and pressure.
Confidential sounding board for high-stakes decisions
Support through growth, restructuring, exit or succession
Guidance on board and investor relationships
One-to-one coaching drawing on positive psychology
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Working with senior leadership teams to strengthen alignment, decision-making and pace as the business evolves.
Facilitating leadership offsites and strategy sessions
Strengthening decision-making, accountability and management routines.
Resolving misalignment between founders or exec team members
Building leadership capability and succession depth
BUILT · LED · Company Net
Co-founder & CEO - 1996 to 2023, two acquisitions and an MBO
Pogo
Co-founder -healthtech and digital agency, 2016 to 2025
Exception
Growth Director - AI innovation and go-to-market
Non-executive
Four SaaS and technology boards, two charity chairs
Client work
Walt Disney, Coca-Cola, BP, Microsoft, NHS, Scottish Government