INSIGHTS
Thinking and research on AI, leadership, and organisational identity.
The published ideas and evidence behind the work. The book, original research, and conversations on what AI is really doing to the organisations that adopt it.
THE BOOK
The Conscious Organisation
Published May 2026.
In the age of AI, capability is a commodity.
Most leaders ask what AI will do for their organisation. Few ask what it will do to it.
AI doesn't transform organisations so much as reveal them. Deployed into a business with genuine alignment between stated values and actual behaviour, it becomes a powerful ally. Deployed without that alignment, it becomes a dangerous accelerant — making the gap between what an organisation claims to be and what it actually does wider, faster, and far more visible.
The greater the distance between an organisation's stated values and its actual behaviour, the more destructive the capability it has just been handed.
The book maps ten archetypes through which AI enters organisational life, each arriving as an improvement and each carrying a risk most leaders don't see until it's too late. It is not an IT book and requires no technical knowledge. Most books on this subject are about capability. This one is about character.
RESEARCH & APPEARANCES
Evidence and Conversation
Original research and selected appearances exploring how leaders are, and aren't, rising to the AI challenge.
February 2026
Own the Interface or Lose the Project
A diagnostic survey of 62 project professionals, conducted ahead of the APM AI & Data Analytics Conference and published in partnership with the Association for Project Management. It reveals a profession convinced of AI's importance but not yet equipped to act — a belief–action gap that is real, and closeable. Full data, analysis, and a practical roadmap inside.
AI, Leadership and the Soul of an Organisation
Industrialise, Ep. 11
Peter Allen in conversation on how AI can support future leaders, how organisations retain their culture in the age of AI, and the emerging promise of agentic AI.
AI in the Built Environment: Beyond Productivity
IC Journal, Issue 3
How construction leaders can move beyond productivity use cases to deploy AI for insight, governance, and strategic advantage. Written on behalf of Acumen 7.