Derisk — AI, Innovation, and Enterprise Decision Systems

Helping Leadership Teams Make Better Strategic Decisions

Advising senior executives on AI strategy, innovation systems, and enterprise decision architectures
Founder, Derisk | Experience across InnoLead, EmbraerX, Innosight, and IDC | MIT Sloan MBA

I help C-suite and senior leadership teams design and operationalize the systems that shape enterprise performance, culture, innovation, and growth.

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Who I work with
C-suite and senior leadership teams at large organizations.

Focus
AI strategy, innovation, growth, organizational systems, and decision-making.

Approach
Future-back thinking and systems-level analysis.

Perspective

Most organizations approach the future by asking: “Given the organization we have today, what should we do next?”

The more important question is: “Given what the future requires, what do we need to become?”

Sustained growth requires leadership teams to think future-back — designing the capabilities, technologies, and operating models required for the next era of competition.

Predictive and generative AI are reshaping how organizations generate insight, innovate, and pursue growth. The companies that succeed will redesign the systems through which strategy, innovation, and decision-making occur.

Questions I Help Leadership Teams Answer

AI, Strategy, and Growth

  • How can enterprises leverage predictive and generative AI to accelerate profitable growth?
  • Where can AI improve strategic insight and decision-making?
  • How should organizations prioritize AI investments to maximize ROI?
  • What capabilities and operating models are required to adopt AI at scale?
  • How should leadership teams navigate the cultural and change challenges of AI?
  • How should AI initiatives align with enterprise strategy?

Innovation and Growth

  • How should innovation be structured inside large organizations?
  • What capabilities are required to build new growth initiatives?
  • How should companies balance core optimization and new growth?

Organizational Systems

  • How do incentives shape strategic behavior?
  • What systems enable better leadership decision-making?
  • How should organizations align culture, metrics, and strategy?

Selected Insights

AI is fundamentally reshaping how organizations pursue innovation and growth.
AI amplifies the core skills that drive innovation.
Organizational systems determine whether strategy succeeds.
Better organizational dynamics lead to better strategic decisions.

Experience

For more than 25 years I have worked with large organizations to strengthen innovation capabilities, improve strategic decision-making, and design systems that support long-term growth.

My experience includes leadership and advisory roles across InnoLead, EmbraerX, Innosight, and IDC. I lead Derisk, advising executive teams on AI strategy, enterprise performance systems, innovation capability, and organizational decision-making.

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If you are exploring questions related to strategy, AI, innovation, or enterprise decision systems, I would welcome the opportunity to talk.

The easiest way to reach me is by email.

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