I help organisations transform differently by putting people at the centre of change and connecting ambition to action. With experience at Accenture, Deloitte, and my own practice, I cut through noise to focus on the drivers of lasting transformation. Known for rapid results in 90–180 days, I simplify complexity, align leadership, and put people at the centre so change sticks.  

As a transformation and change expert, I’ve led complex transformations, integrations, and turnarounds, often stepping in as interim Transformation Director, Change Director, Strategy Director, Programme Director, COO, or CEO. I have worked across various industries, including financial services, fintech, insurance, investment management, legal, utilities, retail, media, and PE-backed businesses. My expertise spans business agility, technology simplification, and customer proposition redesign, creating sustainable impact and leaving organisations stronger than I found them.

I’ve delivered programmes exceeding £100 million, led teams of more than 400 people, and created measurable results, including 30 percent cost reductions, a £265 million uplift in enterprise value, successful regulatory recoveries, and scalable digital platforms.

Alongside my transformation work, I coach leaders and teams to build clarity, accountability, adaptability, resilience, and confidence through change. I help organisations strengthen their leadership capabilities, align teams around a shared purpose, and develop the cultural and behavioural foundations that make transformation sustainable.

How I can help your organisation:
-	Strategy development and programme delivery 
-	Digital, AI, and data-enabled change
-	Enterprise transformation and operating model design
-	Post-acquisition integration
-	Embedding agile and new ways of working at scale
-	Regulatory remediation and governance improvement
-	Culture, leadership, and team performance alignment
-	Executive coaching and leadership team development

Every sector has its quirks, but transformation fundamentals remain the same: clear vision, practical execution, and genuine partnership between leadership and teams.

📩 Let’s connect
In the midst of change or thinking about it? I’d love to hear your story and explore how I can support your journey. Connect or message me anytime.

Craig Gillham

2026 Opener
Wishing everyone a positive, healthy, and fulfilling start to 2026.

If there’s one word that feels right to begin this year with, it’s this:
Honesty.

Because for many people, 2025 wasn’t straightforward.
 The job market was unpredictable.
 Opportunities felt harder to secure.
 Setbacks came more often than expected.
 And staying positive sometimes felt like its own full‑time job.

One truth stood out:
Progress isn’t always loud.
 It isn’t always linear.
 And it certainly isn’t always comfortable.

Sometimes progress is simply the quiet decision to keep going:
• Sending the next message
 • Taking the next call
 • Backing yourself again
 • Trusting that consistency compounds

As 2026 begins, there’s a shift toward a more grounded kind of positivity:
✨ The kind that acknowledges the tough days
 ✨ The kind that accepts rejection as part of the journey
 ✨ The kind that keeps people moving even when the outcome isn’t guaranteed
 ✨ The kind that trusts that effort eventually meets opportunity

For anyone who found last year challenging — professionally, personally, or both — here’s a reminder:

Continual setbacks don’t mean failure.
 Often, they mean you’re being shaped for the result you actually want.

So here’s to showing up again.
 Here’s to backing ourselves again.
 Here’s to being positive and real.

And here’s to making 2026 the year where the work finally connects with the outcome.

#GroundedOptimism #KeepShowingUp #RealProgress

Transformation Leader | Founder | Delivering Growth, Turnaround & Value Creation | £100m+ Change Led Across PE, Founder-Led & Corporate Businesses | Making Change Stick

💊 Data Doctor 📅 AI & Automation Expert 🙋‍♂️The Worlds 1st Chief Generative AI Officer 🗣️ Key Note Speaker 🏆 9x Global Award Winner 🏆 7x LinkedIn Top Voice 📕 Author 🍿 44k+ LinkedIn Connections

I am a highly accomplished CEO, board advisor and thought leader with decades of experience as a practitioner, educator and consultant for global brands on leadership, AI, intelligent automation, data analytics, strategy and digital technology.

I am the winner of multiple awards and accolades. I have been recognised as a World's Top 200 Business and Technology Innovators and a Top 14 people to follow in data. I  was also named as a Top 25 Thought Leader Generative AI 2025,  a Top 50 Global Thought Leader and Influencer on Agentic AI 2025.

My numerous awards and recognitions attest to my outstanding contributions to the fields of AI, digital technology, data analytics, leadership and innovation. I am widely respected as a thought leader, consultant, speaker and innovator. 

I have authored four influential books and hundreds of articles that have shaped industry perspectives on digital transformation, data analytics, intelligent automation, leadership and artificial intelligence.

My company, Kieran Gilmurray and Company, helps businesses get huge value from AI, data, automation, their leadership teams and digital technologies. My team is fluent in both technology and business outcomes – a rare combination in a noisy market.  

Over the past 30 plus years, my team and I have:

  •	Scaled enterprise AI, automation, and analytics for FTSE 100 and S&P 500 organisations
  •	Delivered multi-million-pound gains in operational efficiency 
  •	Trained over 3000 business leaders in leadership, data analytics, digital tech, AI strategy and delivery
  •	Scaled and restructured businesses 
  •	Coached boards, c-suites and executives teams to win
  •	Delivered research, advisory and message amplification to get you the MQLs and SQLs you need

Our approach is practical, and relentlessly results-focused - we deliver what we promise.

What others say:

• Kieran’s market and technical expertise are outstanding. Deep insight, absolute clarity, backed by real world experience you can trust.
• A true authority who delivers confidence and results. 
• Outstanding to work with. A once in a lifetime opportunity to learn from someone truly extraordinary.
• Exceptional. Brilliant. A rare chance to meet and work with someone at this level.

If your business wants a partner with real-world strategy to implementation experience then let’s talk.
📅 Book a call: https://calendly.com/kierangilmurray/introductory-call-linkedin

🕵️‍♂️ Find Kieran's books on Amazon - https://tinyurl.com/MyBooksOnAmazonUK 
🌍 Company Website: https://KieranGilmurray.com
📩 Email - kieran@gilmurray.co.uk

Kieran Gilmurray

Are you generating value from AI? 

According to BCG’s latest research, just 5 percent of organisations globally qualify as “future built” and are generating significant revenue and cost impact from their AI investments. 

The 5 percent have figured out how to extract real, scaled value from AI, and that value is going to continue to grow, as is the way of technological gains.

What sets the leaders apart?  

It is not AI or digital tools alone. 

High performers embed AI deeply into their operating models, build robust data and technology foundations, recruit and upskill the right talent, and treat AI as a strategic business priority rather than a set of isolated experiments. 

The gap in value creation is widening and it matters for competitiveness. 

Leaders capturing outsized returns are reinvesting them to accelerate further. They plan to spend 26% more on IT and dedicate up to 64% more of their IT budget to AI in 2025. 

As a result, they expect to see twice the revenue increase and 40% greater cost reductions in 2028 than laggards do in the areas where they apply AI.

For executives thinking about AI strategy today, the message is clear: successful AI adoption requires disciplined strategy, governance, and change management alongside technical deployment. 

The positive news for those that hadn't moved yet is that there is proof at scale at other organizations of where value delivery can really happen.

The playbook that future-built firms follow is clearly delineated and available to all. 

It’s a roadmap that the other 95% can use to build AI maturity and achieve value at scale.  

It allows you as an organization to be a fast follower and to focus on those areas where there's real value

There’s this misconception that AI is this magic wand and integrating it will be easy and that you just have to plug this tool and voila, it all works. 

That is not, and never will be, the case with AI or any other technology.

The opportunity is real but your playbook must be deliberate and bold.  AI only works if you do the real transformative work that goes with it.

So, what steps is your organisation taking to bridge the AI value gap?

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If you don't know how to answer that question, then message. My team will setup a meeting were we can discuss how we can help your organisation get ROI from AI.

#ROIfromAI #TheCookbook #DoWhatTheWinnersDo #AI

Board and Executive Advisor on AI, technology, leadership and growth | CEO & Founder | Fractional CTO & CAIO | 4x Author | International Keynote Speaker

The next 20 years will bring more change than the last 200. That sentence sounds as dramatic as it is deeply uncomfortable.

For most of human history, change arrived slowly.

Education and skills lasted a lifetime. A degree meant a 30 year career in a profession.  

Institutions evolved over generations.

Experience aged well as years of knowledge compounded. Anything we learned was additive and the more we learned, the more we rose through the ranks and the more we got paid. 

That assumption is now breaking.

The pace of change we are entering is not linear. Technological capability now grows faster than our ability to adapt our thinking, our organisations, and ourselves.

This is where many people reach for comfort.

- Automation.
- Templates.
- Shortcuts.
- Answers on demand.

AI makes all that easy. It removes friction and it compresses effort. It gives us false confidence before we have earned deep understanding - cognitive offloading. 

Used well, AI is extraordinary but used poorly, it will quietly hollow us out. 

Speed without depth feels productive, until it is not. If AI does the hard thinking for us, we move faster but risk understanding less. 

However, if we use AI to test assumptions, stress our logic, and expose weaknesses in our reasoning, we can grow without losing substance or intellect. 

The same technology but very different outcomes.

The risk of the next 20 years is not that machines become more capable but it is that we humans risk becoming less so. 

The organisations that struggle will not be those without access to AI.  

They will be the ones whose people stop thinking clearly because answers became too easy to get.

Before AI delivers real value, leaders must decide:

- when to use it and when to resist it

- what to trust and what to challenge

- where human judgement still matters

- how learning actually happens

This is not a technology problem, it is a human behavioural one. AI dose not have agency, we do. 

The future will not reward those who generate answers the fastest. 

It will reward the curious and it will reward those who still think and question deeply when answers are everywhere. 

The next 20 years will be demanding. 

They will likely be georgeously uncomfortable but they will reward those who practice learning and depth over convenience and fast answers.

That discomfort is not a flaw or thing to fear. It is the work we need to do and have always done.  

People have always had a choice between comfort and growth. 

Both are painful, but only one is less painful in the long term.

Choose wisely.

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If you or your business are struggling to make sense of AI driven change and found 2025 hard, then you will very likely find 2026 even harder.

My team and I can are here to help you get ROI from AI.

DM today and let’s chat.

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I’ve released a preview of Chapter 2 of my exciting new business book 'How to Build an Agent - The leaders Playbook for coding and deploying AI that delivers real business results'.

This is the fourth book in my Masterclass Series on AI and business leadership.

It is written for executives and senior leaders who know AI agents matter, but do not want to wade through technical detail to make robust business decisions.

The book focuses on making AI agents easy to understand at a strategic level, long before you ever worry about tools, models, or code.

This Chapter 2 preview introduces an executive framework for agent strategy, what agents can actually do, and the strategic risks of delaying adoption.

Coming soon globally on Amazon and Audible.  

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As 2025 closed I set a plan in place to burst into 2026.  Bursting is officially happening with my 2nd new course and 1st international seminar of 2026 now complete!

I just delivered a course on 'How AI forms Bias and What Educators Can Do About It' to an amazing group of Vietnamese educators.

The questions focused on people, fairness, and long term impact of AI bias on content and learning rather than tools or models.

Educators, parents, and young adults all need to understand bias in AI.

For educators, AI is already influencing learning materials, assessment, and student support . 

If bias exists in these systems - it does - then it quietly shapes outcomes at scale without ever being challenged. Ouch!

For parents, many of the digital tools affecting children are powered by algorithms and systems which are not neutral. 

They reflect the data they were trained on and the assumptions built into them. This impacts, learning, self and more.

For young adults, AI is becoming a deeply ingrained part of life - relationship and mental health advice, their getting hired, where they get career guidance, performance evaluation, their world view and more. 

The crazy part is that bias in AI is rarely intentional. 
More often, it is invisible. 
But it is that invisibility is what makes it risky.

Understanding this is not about fear or resistance. Instead, it is about awareness and informed use of AI.

This is not a future issue, it is already here and part of everyday life. Not many consider it - but they should.

Our educators need knowledge like this to educate the next generation but they are not getting this training nor the guidance they need.

What topics did we cover?

1. What AI Bias is and means
2. How AI Models Learn and Where Bias Enters
3. Examples of AI Bias in the Classroom
4. AI Risks for Educators, Parents and Students
5. Practical Steps to Reduce Bias
6. and lots more

AI reflects back at us an ugly truth - it is not bias, we are!

☎️ If you need a course on AI and Bias, then message.

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My 2026 plan is simple yet demanding.

• Publish 2 new books and draft the 3rd before the end of 2026
• Travel to at least 14 countries
• Publish 100+ thought leading articles
• Record 40+ podcasts
• Present at 5 conferences
• Create and deliver at least 6 new courses
• Launch a new business website
• Glow up on YouTube, Spotify, Substack and Instagram
• Launch 5 new business services and 3 AI products 
• Launch a community - who wants to join?
• Experiment and kill things that don't work fast.
• Join two new boards
• Do something every single week that genuinely scares me.
• Take forward every lesson learned on the journey and regret nothing

What fun.

Kieran

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#EducationIsKey #AIisNotWithoutBias

This is the fourth book in my Masterclass Series on AI. It has been written for leaders and builders who understand that AI agents are becoming critical, but want clarity rather than hype or theory.

The book focuses on making AI agents practical. It talks about how they are structured, how they operate across tools, and how organisations can deploy them responsibly in language you will understand.

This chapter preview goes deeper into how agentic systems actually behave in real workflows, and what that means for decision making, control, and trust.

The rest of the book shows how to design, govern, and implement these systems in practice.

The full book is currently out on Amazon

You can read the preview and access free chapters here: https://lnkd.in/ea_Runq3

If you're interested in buying the book, click the links in the comments 👇

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