A digital thinker and practitioner who is passionate about using technology to create more effective, human organisations that are better adapted to the volatile modern world.
Lee is passionate about using social technology to put humans front and centre of the way we do things in the Twenty-First Century.
He has been playing with words and computers since the age of 10, but it was in the mid-1990s, whilst working in international politics and diplomacy, that he discovered the immense power of the internet to influence and orchestrate change.
He believes social networks, not bureaucracies, are the organising principle of the current era, and is excited about further exploring new forms of highly connected organisations.
Natural habitat:
Food road-tripping through the Iberian peninsula
Obsessions:
Espresso, pixel-perfect alignment, editing
Bad habit:
Obsessive infovore filter feeder
Interests:
Geo-politics, football, food and wine
Videos from the archive
Selected Blog Posts
Doing the Work: Why Learning is Key to Agentic AI Success & Avoiding Workslop
Agentic AI is starting to demonstrate real capabilities and promise. In the consumer space, OpenAI seems to be moving towards specific agentic apps as a way to popularise and monetise its underlying models, as Nathan Lambert covers today. But in the enterprise,...
Enterprise AI is a Social Technology, Not the Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Magical Realism Humans appear to use some very primitive sorting algorithms when presented with new discoveries, such as is it a God? … and … could this magic kill us all? In debates around AI, this tendency is creating increasingly polarised viewpoints and judgements...
Collaborative Architectures for Agents, People & Machines
We are working on some innovative learning projects to help leaders understand what agentic AI could mean for their roles and their organisations, and to help with readiness for adoption; so I have been reading about overcoming barriers and blockers relating to...
The Growing Importance of Context Engineering for Leaders Adopting AI
We have been thinking a lot recently about how to help business leaders understand, direct and deploy AI in their organisations without needing to become technical domain experts. Traditional approaches to learning, change and technology adoption increasingly feel...
Is Enterprise AI Ultimately Less Risky than Consumer AI?
The debate about AI risks and potential harms is starting to bifurcate into the kind of toxic polarisation we are now used to seeing in politics, economics and other areas of life, amplified by online echo chambers. In addition to technical critics like Gary Marcus,...
Can Learning Help Overcome the AI Capability-Absorption Gap?
We are reaching a curious time for enterprise AI adoption. Organisational AI readiness is advancing far slower than the technology, and yet more and more large firms are warning employees that their jobs are likely to disappear or be transformed by automation and...