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  • Des Kennedy

    I help leaders and teams think better together, so they shape change rather than be led by it.

  • Dr Sam Illingworth

    Professor & poet in Edinburgh. Creator of the Slow AI Curriculum for Critical AI Literacy. Author of GenAI in Higher Education (Bloomsbury, 2026).

  • Andrea Chiarelli

    Showing you how to think like a (human) consultant in the age of AI. Management Consultant & Board member. PhD & MBA. Chartered Fellow of the CMI.

  • The Strategic Linguist

    Decoding the grammar of power. Applying business strategy with pragmatics & sociolinguistics to expose how authority is constructed across corporate & AI ecosystems. Views my own, not my employer’s.

  • Jennifer Houle

    Jennifer is a seasoned HR pro dedicated to exposing what is broken in Human Resources and what we can do about it. Being "Uncompliant" is for anyone trying to do good work inside systems that were never built to support them.

  • Sven Brodmerkel (PhD)

    Writing about how to make workplaces work for quiet, high-processing, and neuro-complex minds. Communication strategies and tools from a late-identified Comms Prof & former Ad-Creative. Occasionally served with a dash of sarcasm. \ud83d\udc08‍⬛☕️\ud83e\udde0\ud83d\udcd6

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