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The Future of AI in Enterprise: Lessons from the Trenches

After scaling data teams from 20 to 1000+ people, I've learned a few things about implementing AI at scale. Here's what actually works in the real world.

Oct 12, 2025

Data Leadership

Building a Data-Driven Culture That Actually Works

Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Here's how to build a truly data-driven organisation without the buzzwords and corporate theater.

Scaling Teams Without Losing Your Soul

Growing from 20 to 1000+ people taught me valuable lessons about maintaining team culture, hiring the right people, and avoiding the corporate bloat trap.

From Analyst to Executive: My Unconventional Path

There's no straight line to the C-suite. Here's how I navigated career transitions, imposter syndrome, and the challenges of leading at scale.

AI Governance Frameworks: What 2025 Demands from Leaders

As AI regulation tightens globally, enterprise leaders must build robust governance frameworks. Here's what you need to know.

The Hidden Challenges of Taking GenAI to Production

Everyone's building GenAI prototypes. Almost no one is successfully running them at enterprise scale. Here's why.

Data Leadership

Data Mesh: A Reality Check from the Trenches

Data Mesh promised to solve all our data architecture problems. Three years later, here's what actually works and what doesn't.

Data Leadership

Red Flags When Hiring Data Leaders (That I Wish I'd Known Earlier)

After hiring 100+ data professionals and making some expensive mistakes, here are the warning signs I now watch for.

AI Hype vs. Reality: What's Actually Working in Enterprise

Cutting through the noise to identify which AI investments deliver real value and which are just expensive experiments.

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